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• Saint Sébastien en tilleul sculpté en ronde-bosse, polychromé et doré. Italie du nord, XVIIe siècle

  
  Les cahiers d'Alain Truong — Authority: 154
  Saint Sébastien en tilleul sculpté en ronde-bosse, polychromé et doré. Italie du nord, XVIIe siècle Sa jambe droite fléchie, son bras gauche relevé et attaché par le poignet à la branche dun arbre, il lève son regard vers le ciel ; visage expressif avec des arcades sourcilières arquées, des yeux aux ...
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• Clara Driscoll: Let There Be Light

  
  THE BLUE LANTERN — Authority: 125
  Thanks to the detective work of Margaret K. Hofer and others, we now know what Louis Comfort Tiffany knew: that many of the spectacular leaded glass lamps that came out of the Tiffany Studio in New York City after 1898 were designed by Clara Pierce Wolcott Driscoll (1861-1944) . We also know that Tiffany ...
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• Très important haut-relief représentant Le retour de sainte Ursule à Cologne. Vallée du Rhin, vers 1540/1560

  
  Les cahiers d'Alain Truong — Authority: 154
  Très important haut-relief en bois de résineux sculpté, polychromé et doré représentant Le retour de sainte Ursule à Cologne. Vallée du Rhin, vers 1540/1560 Il sagit de lune des nombreuses scènes de la légende de cette sainte : celui du voyage de retour de son pèlerinage à Rome. Raccompagnée par le ...
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• Deux coupes couvertes en argent, Allemagne, XVIIe et deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle

  
  Les cahiers d'Alain Truong — Authority: 154
  Grande Coupe couverte en argent à bossages en amande.  Allemagne, deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle. Elle repose sur une base polylobée à moulures. Fût à côtes tournantes et grandes feuilles dacanthe répétées sur la bordure du couvercle. Elle est surmontée dun grand bouquet de fleurs au naturel.(petits ...
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• Deux Saint Sébastien en bois sculpté, Brabant, vers 1500 & Castille, entourage dAlonso Berruguete, milieu du XVIe siècle

  
  Les cahiers d'Alain Truong — Authority: 154
  Saint Sébastien en bois sculpté en ronde-bosse et polychromé. Brabant, vers 1500 H_81 cm - Estimation : 10 000 - 12 000 € Note: Le jeune saint est debout contre un tronc darbre dans une attitude contournée, les jambes croisées avec rotation interne des pieds, le bras gauche attaché, lautre ...
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• Une table attribuée à Bernard I Van Risen Burgh & un bureau de pente estampillé Migeon attibué à Bernard II Van Risen Burgh

  
  Les cahiers d'Alain Truong — Authority: 154
  Rare table de forme rectangulaire. Attribué à Bernard I Van Risen Burgh (c.1660-1738) Époque Régence. Vers 1720-1730 en placage débène, décaille brune, corne teintée bleue à limitation du lapis lazuli, corne teintée rouge, or, burgau et cuivre rouge. Elle est marquetée sur trois côtés de branches de ...
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• La Collection Yves Saint Laurent et Pierre Bergé, Deuxième vente rapporte €8.990.088 au profit de la recherche sur le V.I.H

  
  Les cahiers d'Alain Truong — Authority: 154
  Yves Saint Laurent et Pierre Bergé, en 1982, rue de Babylone, à Paris. Sichov/SIPA Paris -  Quatre jours de ventes aux enchères se sont succédés au Théâtre Marigny, où près de 1200 lots ont été adjugés sous le marteau des commissaires priseurs de Christie’s et de Pierre Bergé et Associés. La ...
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• I18th century talian painted furniture sold @ Sothebys London

  
  Les cahiers d'Alain Truong — Authority: 154
  An Italian polychrome painted carved giltwood mirror attributed to Giuseppe Maria Bonzanigo (1745-1820), Turin, late 18th century 202cm. high, 102cm. wide; 6ft. 7in., 3ft. 3¾in. Est. 70,000—100,000 GBP - Hammer Price with Buyers Premium:  97,250 GBP Comparative Literature : Enrico Colle, Il Mobile ...
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• Cinq plaques en émail peint polychrome avec rehauts dor, Limoges, XVIème siècle

  
  Les cahiers d'Alain Truong — Authority: 154
  Plaque ovale en émail peint polychrome avec rehauts dor représentant Hippolyte. Limoges, entourage de Léonard Limosin, vers 1560 Contre-émail en fondant. Le jeune fils de Thésée est figuré à lantique, en buste de trois-quarts, et regarde vers la droite ; il a la tête ceinte dune couronne de laurier et porte ...
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• Crux Vaticana-Golden Cross in Vaticans Collection has been restored to its Byzantine-era glory

  
  Les cahiers d'Alain Truong — Authority: 154
  Front of the Crux Vaticana (Vatican Cross) before restoration. AP Photo/Ku.Ra Comunicazione VATICAN CITY (AP).- One of the gems of the Vaticans priceless religious art collection — a 6th century reliquary containing what is revered as fragments of the cross on which Jesus was crucified — has been restored to ...
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• Exhibitions NYC. Serizawa: Master of Japanese Textile Design. The Japan Society. The Curated Object

  
  The Curated Object — Authority: 117
  Image courtesy of the Japan Society Image courtesy of The Japan Society Image courtesy of The Japan Society Serizawa: Master of Japanese Textile Design Oct. 9 2009 - January 17, 2010 Designated a "Living National Treasure" by the Japanese government, Serizawa Keisuke ...
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• madeline weinrib atelier

  
  lola bits and pieces — Authority: 127
  feeling metallic and ikat carpets today.
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• Sothebys London to Offer Rare Items From The Collection of the Duke of Bedford

  
  Les cahiers d'Alain Truong — Authority: 154
  Antico, "Seated Nymph". Est. £1.5-2.5 million. Photo: Sothebys LONDON.- Sothebys London announced the sale of three highly important pieces from the collection of the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey which will represent the highlights of both the Old Master Sculpture and the Important Furniture, Silver & ...
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• GMOAs New Decorative Arts Curator: Dale Couch

  
  Curator's Corner — Authority: 434
  For more than a year, the museum has been sans decorative arts curator. Largely due to budget cuts, the museum lacked the resources to hire a curator until recently, when it could once again fill the position due to a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of ...
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• bev hisey

  
  lola bits and pieces — Authority: 127
  die cut wool felt carpet. via design*sponge
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• Fish for Mr. Fisher

  
  designslinger — Authority: 126
    [ Fisher Building (1895-96) D.H. Burnham & Co., Charles Atwood designer, 343 S. Dearborn Street, Chicago, November 11, 2009 /Image & Artwork: designslinger] When Lucius C. Fisher asked D.H. Burnham & Co. to design a skyscraper for him in 1894, the company had a very talented young man who ...
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• Guest Blog from The Blue Lanterns Jane Librizzi. Exhibitions Syracuse. Turner to Cezanne : Masterpieces from the Davies Collection National Museum, Wales. The Everson Museum of Art. The Curated Object

  
  The Curated Object — Authority: 117
  Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Madame Henriot, c1876, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC Berthe Morisot, Woman and Child In a Meadow at Bougival, 1882, oil on canvas, Davies Collection, National Museum of Wales   Pierre-Auguste Renoir, La Parisienne, oli on canvas, 1874, Davies ...
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• The Price of Gold

  
  designslinger — Authority: 126
    [ Napoleon III apartments , detail of door header with gold leaf, Louvre, Paris, April, 2009 /Image & Artwork:  designslinger] The price of gold is reaching all time highs week after week, during our Great Recession.   [ Napoleon III stair ; Hall /Images & Artwork: designslinger] Perhaps ...
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• Mary Chase Perry Stratton

  
  THE BLUE LANTERN — Authority: 125
  A man who knew art, knew what he liked, and was not at all reticent about putting the two together, Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919) believed that the best way to display the revolutionary paintings of James McNeill Whistler was to juxtapose them with the extraordinary iridescent glazed pottery of Mary Chase Perry ...
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• the rug company

  
  lola bits and pieces — Authority: 127
  many others here. [IMG: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oC1P3RHXL4M/SvlzbYtor9I/AAAAAAAAFHg/kSEvMpkKFrM/s400/the+rug+company7.jpg][IMG: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oC1P3RHXL4M/SvlvlVQd8fI/AAAAAAAAFHI/WBb5CynVeFU/s400/the+rug+company2.jpg][IMG: ...
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