EditorialPlaying Card Motifs and Counter, German silver (white metal), Oblong, curved corners and lid, featuring raised decoration of playing cards and a counter at center, with rotating hand, background of small, overlapping disks, identical decoration on reve...
EditorialCulinary mould, Gingerbread Mould, 1870-80 This English culinary mould, made around 1875, has been carved from an unidentified fruit wood. The type of carving is called intaglio. It was a skilled process which called for the design to be carved in reve...
EditorialGondola with allegorical figures Disegno della Seconda Barca nell'ingresso dell'Amba.re (...) (title on object), Ornamented gondola with allegorical figures. Title in cartouche at the top center. Explanatory list of numbers in lower margin. On the reve...
EditorialStaging of dolls in a setting, representing a dream with falling men, a ruin and a skeleton. The staging is the text: Un Reve, dream, Europe, anonymous, c. 1850 - c. 1880, cardboard, photographic paper, albumen print, h 85 mm ? w 170 mm.
EditorialGondola with allegorical figures Disegno della Seconda Barca nell'ingresso dell'Amba.re (...) (title on object), Ornamented gondola with allegorical figures. Title in cartouche at the top center. Explanatory list of numbers in lower margin. On the reve...