EditorialBonheur du jour with three mirrored windows. Windows and cupboard adorned with branch ornament of leaf and flower work, Glass cupboard, so-called bonheur du jour. The cupboard has mirror windows on three sides in flat frames which, like the scalloped h...
EditorialSide?Chair, Mahogany, white oak, white pine, beech, eastern white pine, 41 13/16 ? 18 1/8 ? 19 1/2 in. (106.2 ? 46 ? 49.5 cm), This side chair is one of a set of six. The splats are pierced forming a cypher, an interlocking monogram of the initials RML...
EditorialA red-nested lamp with a ball, round body. The small, round, hollow mirror is undecorated with the small filling hole in the middle. The shoulder is ribbed up and down. The pointed, flat spout is round closed, has a large fire hole and a horizontal ope...
EditorialPrinking before the ball, 1858. Women primping in front of a mirror. Women in wide dress fixing a bracelet on a woman in off-the-shoulder, flounced crinoline dress. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V. after an illustration by Francois Courboin from Octave ...
EditorialYoung lady of quality at a masked ball, demoiselle de qualite, France, 1586. She holds a mask in her right hand and a cantenance (muff) in her left. A mirror and fan hang from her belt. Handcoloured lithograph after a portrait in Roger de Gaignieres' g...
EditorialA mirror and plaster sculpture called Mirrored Ball, is part of artist Rachel Feinstein's “Maiden, Mother, Crone,” exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York on Nov. 20, 2019. (Molly Matalon/The New York Times)
EditorialBonheur du jour with three mirrored windows. Windows and cupboard adorned with branch ornament of leaf and flower work, Glass cupboard, so-called bonheur du jour. The cupboard has mirror windows on three sides in flat frames which, like the scalloped h...
EditorialBeaded purse with a gold bracket and hook, The cast purse bracket consists of two equal, hingedly connected, arcuate halves with a scalloped contour. A wide, smooth top edge is attached perpendicular to one of these two halves. Each bracket half shows ...
EditorialLady in mask at a ball, reign of King Henry III of France, 1573-1575. She wears a hat decorated with pearls, a full-face black mask, black velvet brocade dress with corset and vertugadin or farthingale, high lace collar, shoulder pads and slashed sleev...
EditorialLady in mask at a ball, reign of King Henry III of France, 1573-1575. She wears a hat decorated with pearls, a full-face black mask, black velvet brocade dress with corset and vertugadin or farthingale, high lace collar, shoulder pads and slashed sleev...
EditorialLady in mask at a ball, reign of King Henry III of France, 1573-1575. She wears a hat decorated with pearls, a full-face black mask, black velvet brocade dress with corset and vertugadin or farthingale, high lace collar, shoulder pads and slashed sleev...
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