Topic: Engraved Optic Lens with Madonna and Child. LT LK ??King's

[lesley7]

oops, please can the moderator remove the first photo, I can't find a way to do it :-) sorry for the inconvenience :huh:

[Anne]

Done for you Lesley.

[pl79]

The image looks very russian or greek in the style of an orthodox icon. Could the signature be from the cyrillic alphabet?

[lesley7]

Thanks Anne 

[chopin-liszt]

I was in no way meaning to minimise the work that goes into preparing for sandblasting  :thud:
- just thinking along the lines that once the artist has done all that work, it would be easy enough for a technician to carry out the blasting bit..... and given at Caithness these were produced en masse, I'd have thought technical staff might have been hired to do such stuff, rather than getting the artists to do it themselves.....

[Max]

Just seen this thread and I'd definitely agree with pl79 that this looks like an icon, especially from the style of the hands.  It would be hard to give an age for it, but I'd think that it wasn't modern.  See if you can get any mileage from pl79's suggestion that the signature might be cyrillic.

[rosieposie]

Thanks for all that everyone  :sun:

I will see if I can find out any cirillic connections....not certain I know what i'm looking for though. :usd:

[lesley7]

I was in no way meaning to minimise the work that goes into preparing for sandblasting  :thud:
- just thinking along the lines that once the artist has done all that work, it would be easy enough for a technician to carry out the blasting bit..... and given at Caithness these were produced en masse, I'd have thought technical staff might have been hired to do such stuff, rather than getting the artists to do it themselves.....

Gosh Sue, no I know you weren't, I could just see that it is something that a lot of collectors out there may not know about. I should have started another thread, so I won't rattle on about it much more here, but to say you are absolutely right, many years ago I had staff who did all the dirty work with the masks I created, thousands of items , but none of those were ever signed....maybe I should have 

I am loving the idea that the signature on this particular piece may be cyrillic, whatever that is, it sounds very exciting  :ra: I hope the mystery is solved soon.