Saturday, November 14, 2009

I bought a statue table in Italy in 1968. I dont think its ivory, but something poured. What is it?

The table has elephants, and women. It is approxmately 3 feet tall and has a square top on it that looks like chinese dragons


The table is a cream color. I shipped it to the states and it got


broken in half. The details are real nice, and it has 3 claw feet on it. Looks line a telephone stand. Can you help me identify


what I have

I bought a statue table in Italy in 1968. I dont think its ivory, but something poured. What is it?
Don't bother at what SuorUgo says, he's a free spirit in so many words :-)





Probably it's alabaster, quite common in Italy:





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabaster
Reply:It's made of a pourable resin that hardens and resembles ivory. I have a geisha sculpture made out of the same stuff. I dropped it once, and it broke into a couple of pieces. I glued it back together with superglue back in the seventies, and it's held since then.
Reply:What have you?


Bad taste.


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