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Standing Chinese Guanyin figure showing the headdress, serene facial features and flowing robes

Identifying and Dating a Chinese Guanyin – Cast...

A close examination of a 19 cm Chinese Guanyin, combining casting evidence, copper-alloy patina, wear, stylistic comparison, practical experience and expert assessment to estimate origin and age.

Identifying and Dating a Chinese Guanyin – Cast...

A close examination of a 19 cm Chinese Guanyin, combining casting evidence, copper-alloy patina, wear, stylistic comparison, practical experience and expert assessment to estimate origin and age.

Curved pale carved material showing a dense semi-translucent wall and internal cavity during ivory-versus-bone examination

Ivory or Bone? Re-Examining a Late Qing Guanyin...

A follow-up material-identification study using macro photography, transmitted light, edge structure and hardness observations to test an earlier carved-bone attribution—and show where visual evidence stops short of proof.

Ivory or Bone? Re-Examining a Late Qing Guanyin...

A follow-up material-identification study using macro photography, transmitted light, edge structure and hardness observations to test an earlier carved-bone attribution—and show where visual evidence stops short of proof.

Large antique Pichwai painting of Krishna and Gopis, Rajasthan, late 19th century

How to Date and Value an Antique Pichwai Painti...

A practical research case study examining a monumental late-19th-century Krishna & Gopis Pichwai from Rajasthan through its textile support, paint surface, wear, iconography and construction.

How to Date and Value an Antique Pichwai Painti...

A practical research case study examining a monumental late-19th-century Krishna & Gopis Pichwai from Rajasthan through its textile support, paint surface, wear, iconography and construction.

Monumental 60 cm Late Qing Chinese Guanyin with Shancai and Longnü, carved and assembled from bone

When Ivory Was Bone: Identifying a Monumental L...

A close object study of a monumental 60 cm Chinese Guanyin with Shancai and Longnü, showing how material structure, construction and iconography led from an initial ivory hypothesis to a...

When Ivory Was Bone: Identifying a Monumental L...

A close object study of a monumental 60 cm Chinese Guanyin with Shancai and Longnü, showing how material structure, construction and iconography led from an initial ivory hypothesis to a...

Full front view of the 56 cm polychrome Balinese wooden architectural carving with standing female figure and lower acrobat

When Green Was Not Corrosion: A Polychrome Bali...

Microscopic and object-level examination of a 56 cm polychrome Balinese wooden architectural carving with a standing female figure and lower acrobat, documenting the substrate, worn colour layers, deposits and the...

When Green Was Not Corrosion: A Polychrome Bali...

Microscopic and object-level examination of a 56 cm polychrome Balinese wooden architectural carving with a standing female figure and lower acrobat, documenting the substrate, worn colour layers, deposits and the...