Antiques

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A brass label on the front reads “FEE aux OISEAUX par Hering. What can you tell me about it?

A. The title of your lamp is “Bird Fairy.” It was sculpted by Elsie Ward Hering (18711923), an American sculptor who made bronze and other metal sculptures and vases. She studied and worked in New York in 1896 and moved to Paris in 1898. In 1900 she moved to Cornish, New Hampshire, and worked as an assistant to sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. She married another assistant, Henry Hering, in 1910 and did not make many of her own works after that. The value of your lamp depends on the desirability of design, its size and its material. Solid bronze is worth more than brass, spelter or bronze-coated white metal.

Q. I’m trying to find the maker of a pair of vases marked with a crown over the letter “N” and “Ger-