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1993 Fornasetti Portfolio 6 Surrealist Black/Gold Prints France
Located in Miami, FL
The complete portfolio from the series Sole e Lune containing 6 Fine Art Silkscreen by Piero Fornasetti published in France by Graphique de France in 1993. This portfolio was exclusively created for Pier One...
Category
1990s French Mid-Century Modern Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Railway Travel Poster France Corsica Mediterranean Sea Island
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for the Mediterranean island of Corsica in France issued by French Railways featuring a colourful image of a lady walking on a stone path in front of b...
Category
1950s French Vintage Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
Modern Lighting of the
50
s (Arnoldsche Reprint)
Located in New York, NY
Reprint of a 1953 international survey of modernist lighting, originally published in Germany by Alexander Koch. This edition published in 2012 by Arnoldsche Art Publishers. Faithful reprint of the original, with a new introduction by Bernd Dicke. Large 8vo (8.5” x 12”), pictorial boards, approximately 122 pages, fully illustrated with b/w photos plus several color images at the front. Introductory text in German and English; curatorial text in German, English, and French. A bible for sourcing and documenting early postwar lighting, based on the perspicacity of the editor(s). A roster of designers and manufacturers, gleaned fro the index at the rear, includes: Arredoluce, Arteluce, BAG Turgi, Peter Behrens, Alexey Brodovitch, Paul Bry, Franco Buzzi, Alexander Calder, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Robert Gage, Lester Geis...
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2010s German Mid-Century Modern Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
Limited Edition Manus x Machina Signed by Anna Wintour - Iris Apfel Collection
Located in Morristown, NJ
Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology, limited-edition boxed set (No. 490/600), signed by Anna Wintour. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2016 for the acclaim...
Category
2010s Modern Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
18th Century Playing Cards by David Weege, 1758
Located in Delft, NL
18th Century Playing Cards by David Weege, 1758
27 pieces of copper engraved playing cards, framed behind glass, made by David Weege
27 pi...
Category
Mid-18th Century Dutch Antique Paper Furniture
Materials
Glass, Paper
American Art Deco Furniture by Ric Emmett Ltd Edition Book
By Ric Emmett
Located in North Bergen, NJ
American Art Deco furniture by Ric Emmett
After four years of research and writing this book has become a Reality! It has become a part of...
Category
2010s Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
Temple of Philae on the Nile – Antique Egypt Ruins Engraving by Norden, c.1755
Located in Langweer, NL
Temple of Philae on the Nile – Antique Egypt Ruins Engraving by Norden, c.1755
This impressive 18th-century engraving presents a detailed view and pe...
Category
Mid-18th Century Danish Antique Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
Antique Silver Tube with hand written Quran excerpts Parchment Scroll ca 1800
Located in Doha, QA
This is a beautiful and masterfully done silver oriental tube with hand written Quran excerpts parchment roll inside. The Tube has been hand crafted in 19th century and the scroll it...
Category
Early 19th Century Saudi Arabian Antique Paper Furniture
Materials
Silver
"Nude Archer, " Bold Ink Drawing with Male Nude, Influenced by Klimt
By Erwin Stolz
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Bold and atmospheric, this ink drawing depicts a kneeling nude male figure, his bow arched and his arrow ready to spring forward, surrounded by a flower-bedecked landscape that clearly draws its inspiration from Gustav Klimt's work. To the left, silhouetted against the dark background, a pair of stylized geese -- evidently his target -- are shown flying upward. The sun which dapples the figure of the archer highlights his lithe musculature, and the artist -- Erwin Stolz -- gives the same close attention to the landscape behind. Stolz was well connected to the artistic elite of Vienna, and was friends with Alexander Rothaug...
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1920s Art Deco Vintage Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
Antique Japanese Camellia Tree 4 Panel Folding Screen ~ Naga Gallery Provenance
Located in New York, NY
Antique four-panel Japanese screen featuring a painting of a Camellia tree dating to the Taisho period (1912-1926), executed with delicate brushwork and vibrant colors, characteristi...
Category
1920s Japanese Vintage Paper Furniture
Materials
Wood, Paper
St Andrews, Life Association Print By Michael Brown Golf Print
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Michael Brown Life Association Golf Photogravure, St. Andrews - High Hole.
A golf photogravure after Michael Brown: St. Andrews - High Hole. (Coming Home), from his famous series of ...
Category
Early 20th Century British Sporting Art Paper Furniture
Materials
Oak, Paper
Red Chalk Drawing of a Seated Woman by Jean Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)
By Jean-Antoine Watteau
Located in Long Island City, NY
This charming drawing is a preliminary study for the larger drawing, Trois etudes de femme assise, coiffee d'une fontange, in the British Museum.
This little gem comes from Brooke A...
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Early 18th Century French Rococo Antique Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
Large Custom Framed "Marilyn" Silkscreen by Andy Warhol
Located in Oxnard, CA
Here is a big bold pop-art print of Andy Warhol's "Marilyn" Monroe. This was produced by Sunday B. Morning on museum board and is in a beautiful custom frame. It's a great, vibrant...
Category
Late 20th Century Belgian Mid-Century Modern Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
Jean-Michel Basquiat. Numbered color silkscreen print. 1990s.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Color silkscreen print in its light oak frame.
It is numbered 88/100 and bears the dry stamp of the publisher Rupert Jason Smith (who was Andy Warhol’s printer a...
Category
Late 20th Century American Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
New Moon Green Console
By Extroverso
Located in Milan, IT
The perfect complement to the New Moon seating series, this stunning console hand a mid-century inspiration revisited with modern and exclusive details in satin bronzed brass. Ideall...
Category
2010s Italian Paper Furniture
Materials
Brass
$16,296 / item
Framed 15th Century Illuminated Book of Hours Manuscript
Located in Houston, TX
Framed 15th century illuminated Book of Hours manuscript circa 1450, France. Gouache, ink gold wash and gold burnishing on vellum. Framed within large decorative matt. In very good a...
Category
15th Century and Earlier French Medieval Antique Paper Furniture
Materials
Glass, Wood, Parchment Paper
Antique Map of Russia in Asia from An Old German Atlas, 1845
By Meyer
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map titled 'Asiatisches Russland'. This map depicts Russia in Asia and originates from 'Meyers Handatlas'.
Artists and Engravers: Engraved and published by 'Bibliographis...
Category
19th Century Antique Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
Sinfonier by Jacques Adnet
Located in MADRID, ES
Chest of 7 drawers designed by Jacques Adnet, wooden structure covered with parchment. France, 1960s.
Category
1960s French Vintage Paper Furniture
Materials
Wood, Parchment Paper
Vintage Boho Original Oil Crayon Male Nude on Paper
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This emotive and dynamic original figure study captures a reclining male nude in expressive strokes of pastel, charcoal, and crayon, reflecting the raw energy of mid-century Expressi...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Expressionist Paper Furniture
Materials
Paste, Glass, Wood, Paper, Crayon
Original Vintage Travel Poster New York World
s Fair 1939 World Of Tomorrow
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for the World Fair event held in New York at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park from 30 April 1939 to 31 October 1940. Great Art Deco design by J...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
Grace on the Water: The Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) in Repose, 1929
Located in Langweer, NL
This print from the "Svenska Fåglar Efter Naturen Och På Sten Ritade" series depicts the mute swan, Cygnus olor, known as 'Knolsvan' in Swedish. The swan is portrayed with an air of ...
Category
1920s Vintage Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
$246 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Armoire with a Glazed Parchment Finish
Located in New York, NY
Large armoire with a glazed parchment finish. The glaze has a wonderful all-over crackle.
The top half was outfitted for a TV but would make a fabulous l...
Category
1980s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paper Furniture
Materials
Wood, Parchment Paper
Original Technical Drawing of Hartungs Regulator, 1925
Located in Praha, CZ
Handmade technical drawing. Signed and stamped in 1925. Ink on a paper. Newly framed in mat anthracit steel frame. Mat glass.
Category
1920s Art Deco Vintage Paper Furniture
Materials
Steel
1863 The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
By Charles Kingsley
Located in Bath, GB
A beautifully bound, first edition of Charles Kingsley's celebrated piece of children's literature, bound by Bayntun-Riviere in half crushed morocco.
Bound by Bayntun-Riviere in an ...
Category
1860s British Antique Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
Supreme
Located in New York, NY
Over the past 25 years, Supreme has transformed itself from a Downtown New York skate shop into an iconic global brand. Supreme-the book-looks back on more than two decades of the creations, stories, and convention-defying attitude that are uniquely Supreme.
Featuring more than 800 stunning images, from photographers such as Larry Clark, Ari Marcopoulos, and David Sims...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
$50 / item
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, First Edition, Two-Volume Set, 1888
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Sheridan, Philip Henry. Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan, General United States Army. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1888. First Edition. Two Volumes. Rebound in green quar...
Category
1880s American Antique Paper Furniture
Materials
Leather, Paper
Architectural Pottery: Ceramics for a Modern Landscape
By Phaidon
Located in New York, NY
The first book to document the history of the groundbreaking company Architectural Pottery, tracing its critical influence on midcentury design and its enduring appeal today
Architectural Pottery’s strikingly minimalist designs heralded new domestic housewares that could uniquely accent the modern home - inside and out. Formally expressive yet accessible, their refreshingly unembellished, elegant pots and...
Category
2010s Chinese Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Medical Print, Lungs, C.1900
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great image of medical interest.
Unframed.
Published, circa 1900.
Free shipping
Category
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
Early 20th Century Japanese Cherry Blossom Screen by Kano Sanrakuki
Located in Kyoto, JP
Cherry Blossoms
Kano Sanrakuki (1898-1981)
Showa period, circa 1930
2-panel Japanese Screen
Color, gofun and gold leaf on paper
Against a backdrop of gold-leafed ground, the lichen covered trunk and branches of the life-sized cherry blossom tree reach out and beyond the confines of the pictorial surface. The overall composition has a feeling of flatness which draws emphasis to the surface and the three-dimensionality of the cherry blossoms. Painstakingly built-up layers of thickly applied shell-white gofun detail the voluminous blossoms and cover large areas of this tour-de-force of Japanese Nihonga painting. By simplifying the background, minimizing the number of colors and depicting the blossoms with such heavy relief, the artist has emphasized the stunning presence of the cherry tree. The type of tree depicted is the Yae-Zakura; a double-layered type of cherry blossom famed for its beauty and strength. When we think of Japanese cherry blossoms, the first thing that comes to mind is Somei Yoshino variety, which has a single flower with five almost white petals. This type is fragile and easily blown away by strong wind or rain. Most of the double-flowered cherry blossoms begin to bloom when the Somei-Yoshino falls, and the flowering period lasts longer than that of the Somei-Yoshino.
Kano Sanrakuki originally studied painting at the Kyoto City Arts and Crafts School under the tutelage of Yamamoto Shunkyo...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Showa Paper Furniture
Materials
Gold Leaf
Quarez 14 Juillet Original Vintage Poster Rare French Poster Flag 1996
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
QUAREZ 14 Juillet 1996 Rooster
CONDITION
Excellent
FORMAT
Silkscreen Poster Unlined Backed
ARTIST
Michel Quarez
YEAR
1996
DIMENSIONS
117 x 174 cm
Michel Quarez (1938–2021)...
Category
20th Century Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
Italian Contemporary Hand Painted Botanical Print "Swamp White Oak" 3 of 4
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Print from the Collection Botanique Trees representing Swamp White Oak, enriched with green and browm colors and nuances of watercolor, to make it more realistic.
Another different ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
This is Still Not a Book
By Phaidon
Located in New York, NY
“Playful illustrations challenge young readers to think outside the box … Delightful, witty, and imaginative.” —Kirkus, STARRED Review
A playfully deceptive, joyously interactive follow-up to award-winning author and illustrator Jean Jullien...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
$17 / item
Nine Artists
A Press; An exhibition of Whittington Press artists - SIGNED
Located in Middletown, NY
Nine Artists & A Press; An exhibition of the work of nine artists working for the Whittington Press, held at the Fiery Beacon Gallery, 2-17 December '89
Andoversford, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press, 1989.
FIRST, LIMITED Edition
8vo., 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches (240 x 165 mm); 15 pp, unpaginated.; 11 illustrations [two wood-engravings, one linocut, and line-block reproductions of six wood-engravings, a copper-engraving and a drawing]. Machine-set in 12-point Walbaum. Quarter-bound by The Fine Bindery in light brown Oasis morocco, gilt spine titling, with red, orange and brown on ivory Whittington marbled paper-covered boards. Strathmore Americana Desert Rose endpapers and matching slipcase, with the title and an additional two-color linocut by Judith Verity on the front. Book and slipcase in Fine condition Copy 38 of 50 special copies bound in marbled paper and SIGNED by seven of the artists on the limitation page.
[Butcher 104].
This exhibition of the work of the Press's main artists was held at the Fiery Beacon Gallery in Painswick, Gloucestershire, in December 1989. The catalogue reproduces some of the artists' work, with a note about each artist: John Craig...
Category
20th Century English Paper Furniture
Materials
Leather, Paper
Antique 1845 Hand-Colored Print of Medieval Spearman in Colorful Tunic
Tights
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique 1845 Hand-Colored Print of a Medieval Spearman in Colorful Tunic and Tights
This vivid hand-colored engraving from 1845 depicts a medieval spearman or soldier poised in a dy...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
One Flew Over the Cuckoo
s Nest by Ken Kesey - First Edition, second issue DJ
Located in Middletown, NY
New York: The Viking Press, 1962.
First Edition in 2nd edition DJ.
8vo, 8 x 5 1/2 inches (203 x 136 mm); (8), 311 pp.; pages clean and unmarked and very lightly toned. Publisher's ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
Dr Doom 1970 Marvel Poster, Jack Kirby
Located in Bath, Somerset
Wonderful and very colourful original Dr Doom 1970 Marvel fan club Poster designed by King of Comic, Jack Kirby.
This original vintage poster was originally rolled and has been pro...
Category
20th Century American Paper Furniture
Materials
Linen, Paper
Salgado, Amazônia Art D, Signed Sumo Book with Black
White Photographic Print
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This Sumo-sized art edition (No. 301–400), designed by Lélia Wanick Salgado and signed by Sebastião Salgado, is presented with a clothbound companion volume, the signed print The Par...
Category
2010s Paper Furniture
Materials
Steel
2 Miniature Picture Frames Erhard
Söhne Antique German Dollhouse Toy 1900s
By Erhard
Söhne
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This rare Set of two Pictures framed in Gold plated ormulu frames is a must-have for Dollhouse and Doll collectors and enthusiasts alike. With its beautiful intricate design, it is suitable for any room and adds a touch of elegance to your Dollhouse. You will get 2 Erhard and Söhne Frames and one framed pictures with a landscape to place it in your dollhouse.
Made of high-quality gold-plated metal and handmade by skilled craftsmen, this original piece is a testament to the rich history of German toys. Whether you're a fan of entertainment or vintage items, this Erhard & Söhne dollhouse toy...
Category
Early 1900s German Folk Art Antique Paper Furniture
Materials
Metal, Gold Plate
Royal Conclave: A Manuscript Glimpse into Persian Courtly Life
Located in Langweer, NL
A page from a Persian manuscript, distinguished by its intricate miniature painting and surrounding script.
Description
The artwork shows a scene ...
Category
Early 18th Century Persian Antique Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
$490 Sale Price
30% Off
Jimeco Ltda Parchment Pedestal Center Table 1980
s
By Jimeco ltda
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Jimeco parchment center table with circular goatskin top and pedestal with parchment overlay. Vintage item from the 1980s, original label underneath re...
Category
1980s Colombian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paper Furniture
Materials
Goatskin, Wood, Parchment Paper
Extraordinary 19th Century 8 Panel Painted Wallpaper Screen, "Italian Landscape"
Located in Bridgeport, CT
An exceptional 19th Century eight panel Painted Wallpaper screen originally purchased at Côté Jardin Antiques and acquired from a Parisian estate....
Category
19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Paper Furniture
Materials
Wood, Paper
Selection of Modern Art
Located in Atlanta, GA
Selection of Modern Art, circa 1950s-1970s. From left to right, they are:
1) The abstract nude female drawing, probably American, circa 1950s....
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paper Furniture
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
$650 / item
L
Hiver (Winter) Engraving Print, After Antoine Watteau
By Jean-Antoine Watteau
Located in Bradenton, FL
Elegant antique Engraving entitled L'Hiver (Winter), after a celebrated composition by Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721), one of the most influential painters of French Rococo art....
Category
Early 19th Century French Rococo Antique Paper Furniture
Materials
Giltwood, Paper
Sixty Years A Queen The Story Of Her Majesty
s Reign, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Sixty Years A Queen: The Story Of Her Majesty's Reign by Sir Herbert Maxwell. Published in London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1897. 1st Ed hardcover, wit...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Paper Furniture
Materials
Leather, Paper
Antique Map of Turkey with Cyprus and Greece Islands by N. Sanson, circa 1652
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map of Turkey, Anatolie with Cyprus and the Greece islands. Attractive scrolled title cartouche to top right corner. Blank verso.
Category
Mid-17th Century Antique Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
TMM Floor Lamp by Miguel Milá for Santa
Cole
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Its depth lies in its simplicity. This is perhaps the most highly acclaimed piece from one of Spain’s leading pioneering masters of industrial design. This lamp was part of Miguel Mi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Mid-Century Modern Paper Furniture
Materials
Wood, Parchment Paper
$1,986 / item
Original Antique Architectural Print by John Ruskin, circa 1880,
Venice
By John Ruskin
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Wonderful Gothic architectural print.
Balcony in the Campo St. Benedetto, Venice
Steel engraving by R.P. Cuff after the original drawing by John Ruskin
Published, circa 1880
On w...
Category
1880s English Gothic Revival Antique Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Caricature Print of The Viceroy of India. 1934
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Super image of Lord Willingdon
Originally a plate from Punch or The London Charivari
Published 1934
The measurement given is the paper size not the actual image.
Category
1930s British Art Deco Vintage Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
Picasso Lithographs, Catalog Raisonnee, 1970
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Picasso Lithographs, Catalog Raisonnee, 1970
Printed By S.P.A.D.E.M, Paris
Translated from French by Jean Didry
Printed In France
"Profuse black
white photos and color illustr...
Category
1970s French Modern Vintage Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
Antique Print of a Man drinking and Bowling by Payne
c.1850
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'Alle neun Neigen'. Original steel engraving of a man drinking and bowling. Engraved by AH. Payne after the painting by J.P. Hasenclever. Published by A.H. Payne...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
$94 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of Large Original Antique Natural History Prints, Shells, circa 1835
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Great images of shells
Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames.
Lithograph after Cpt. Brown, Gilpin and Edwards with original h...
Category
1830s English Folk Art Antique Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
Cabaret 1973 Original Polish Film Poster, Wiktor Górka
By Wiktor Gorka
Located in Bath, Somerset
Arguably one of the most iconic Polish film posters. Bold, striking, confrontational and about as avant-garde a design as you could ever get.
The end of the Second World War marked the dawn of a new period in the development of Polish poster art, which became known as the Polish School of Posters...
Category
20th Century Polish Paper Furniture
Materials
Linen, Paper
Art Deco Parchment Armoir Wardrobe Style Pascaud, France, 1935
By Jean Pascaud
Located in Saarbruecken, DE
Art Deco Parchment Armoir wardrobe in the manner of Jean Pascaud, France, 1935.
Restored in high gloss lacquor, hand polished. Parchment in good vintage condition. Brass ornamets.
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Paper Furniture
Materials
Wood, Parchment Paper
$14,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Robert Motherwell Abstract Expressionist Print in 19th Century Gilt Frame
Located in Atlanta, GA
Abstract Expressionist Print, by Robert Motherwell, American, circa 1967. This work is from the limited edition portfolio "In Memory of My Feelings: A Selection of Poems by Frank O'Hara". Only 2500 were printed. This example has been professionally framed under UV resistant glass in a 19th Century gilt frame.
Category
1990s American Mid-Century Modern Paper Furniture
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Early 1900 Umberto Brunelleschi Art Deco Litograph Watercolor Pochoir
Located in Brescia, IT
Pochoir
Umberto Brunelleschi
Early 1900
Art Deco Pochoir on paper
Original wood frame
"Brunelleschi" signed
Very good condiction
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Art Deco Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
Sotheby
s Catalog, An Important Russian Imperial Jewel. Geneva, 2005 1st Ed
By Sotheby
s
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's Catalog, An Important Russian Imperial Jewel. Geneva 17 November 2005. 1st Ed hardcover. "An impressive and highly important diamond ornament from the collection of the Russian Imperial Family, Russia, second half of the 18th century. This diamond necklace with bowknot clasp is not only a remarkable jewel in itself, but its Russian royal provenance puts it in a class of its own. It evokes the blinding splendour of Catherine II, Empress of Russia: the magnificence of her court, her parks, her palaces, her art collections, and monuments. The most striking and colourful figure on the stage of European political life, for thirty four years she ruled a mighty empire which stretched from Siberia to Poland and left it stronger, larger and richer than when she came to the throne in 1762. After her death in 1796, her friend the Prince de Ligne, who had named her Catherine the Great, declared that this title- which has never been lost- resumed all her genius, courage, sense of justice, and force of character.
Using her court as a stage, she played the part of an autocratic but enlightened ruler to perfection, imposing in her public appearances, kind and charming in private. The French ambassador, the Comte de Ségur who noticed how “her majestic head and brow, proud look and dignified deportment made her seem taller than she was”, was also impressed by her feminine grace “ her aquiline nose, well shaped mouth, Saxe blue eyes beneath dark lashes, gentle glance and seductive smile”. In spite of her success, she once confided to the Prince de Ligne that she could have served Russia better if she had been born a man. Ever the courtier, he assured her that being a woman was a positive advantage. “Believe me, you are so much more impressive in your beautiful embroidered orange red velvet dolman or tunic than a man decked out in boots and shoulder sash can ever be. In addition the five huge diamonds blazing out from your hair are far more effective than a man’s hat which is either ridiculously small or ridiculously big”. He was right. Her diamond jewellery proclaimed her power and her rank as Empress and appealed to the Russian taste for sumptuous goods. It impressed the Rev. William Coxe, visiting St. Petersburg in 1778: “the glory and the splendor of the clothing of the court and abundance of precious stones leave the opulence of other European courts far behind” and his opinion was shared by the acute Madame de Stael...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
Quality Street by J. M. Barri - FIRST EDITION, DELUXE, illustr. by Hugh Thompson
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913.
Illustrated by Hugh Thompson. First, Limited Edition.
4to, Deluxe Edition, 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches (312 x 242 mm); pp. viii + 198 + 2. Twenty-two ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Paper Furniture
Materials
Gold Leaf
Original Vintage Poster Bitter Campari Spiratello Leonetto Cappiello, 1921
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original vintage poster Bitter Campari Spiratello Leonetto Cappiello, 1921
This is a beautiful art deco poster by the famous artist, Leonetto Cappiello from 1921. Cappiello influenc...
Category
19th Century Italian Art Deco Antique Paper Furniture
Materials
Linen, Paper
$6,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Botanical Large Print After Joseph Nigg, from the Ateliers Lithographiques Mourl
By Joseph Nigg
Located in Downingtown, PA
"Floral Masterpiece": Large Vintage Botanical Lithograph after Joseph Nigg,
Printed by Mourlot, 1947
A magnificent and large-scale botanical lithograph, beautifully reproducing a pa...
Category
1940s Georgian Vintage Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
Masaoka Konobu Hasegawa Signed Rare Japanese Bunraku Puppet Woodblock Print
Located in Studio City, CA
A somewhat rare and hard-to-find image by Japanese artist Masaoka Konobu Hasegawa (though we have also seen this image attributed to artist Hanabusa Hideki as well) of a male Bunraku puppet...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Paper Furniture
Materials
Paper
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