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Category Archives: DecorativeArts
Have You Met ‘The Met’ Yet?
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (aka: “The Met”) is located in New York City. It is the largest art gallery / museum in the United States and one of the 10 largest in the world. Its permanent collection contains more … Continue reading
Callooh! Callay! for Calouste is Okay
Above: Dragonfly brooch once adorned by Sarah Bernhardt to whom it was lent by friend Calouste Gulbenkian. A corsage ornament which consists of dragonfly with griffon’s paws and green female torso whose face is supposed to be of Sarah herself. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Collectibles, DecorativeArts
Tagged Calouste Gulbenkian, Dragonfly brooch, Lalique, Sarah Bernhardt
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Compare the Pair #15: Compare the Chair
Left: “Hollow“(2012) fibreglass & paint by Anish Kapoor, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor was born on 12 March 1954, in Bombay. Kapoor lived and worked in London during the 1970s studying art at the Hornsey College of … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, DecorativeArts, Textiles
Tagged Anish Kapoor, Ball Chair, Blobe Chair, Eero Aarnio, International Furniture Fair
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Far from Ross River Fever
Stonemason and Tasmanian convict Daniel Herbert was baptized on 17 February, 1802, in the Paul Street Independent Chapel, Taunton, Somerset, England; the son of Daniel Herbert, a Corporal in the 6th (Inniskillen) Dragoons. In March 1827, with James Camble and … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Carvings
Tagged Bridges, Convict Transportation, Convicts, Daniel Herbert, Tasmania
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Try Your Luck and Maybe Spend a Buck at the Fryerstown Antique Fair
Fryerstown Antique Fair will celebrate its 42nd anniversary in 2017. It is held on the surrounding days of the Australia Day holiday on January 25th each year. The popular annual event has grown from strength to strength each year and … Continue reading
Posted in Bone China, Ceramics, CigaretteCards, Collectibles, Crystal, Glass, Hard Paste Porcelain, Marbles, Paperweights, Perfume Bottles, Porcelain, Postcards, Sculpture, Snowdomes, Soft paste Porcelain, Stained Glass, Stamps, SwapCards, Tea Towels
Tagged Fryerstown Antique Fair, Fryerstown Antique Market
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On Armistice Day – Lest We Forget
Above is part of a collection of World War One (WW1) recruitment posters, (A gift by Horace H.J. Roberts). Over 200 Parliamentary Recruiting Committee and Parliamentary War Saving Committee posters were published before the introduction for conscription in January 1916. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Fabric, Textiles
Tagged #Armistace Day, #Poppies4Remembrance, #Posters, #WarTimePosters
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Natalia Goncharova’s Kingdom Under the Sea
(Above: Ballet costume for a seahorse for Serge Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe production of Sadko, ca. 1916 by Natalia Goncharova. Costume: Silk-cotton satin lamé, paint, wire, wadding: cape, 166cm headdress 83 x60 x 25cm). Russian avant-garde artist, painter, costume designer, writer, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Textiles
Tagged #Ballet, #BalletRusses, #Costumes, #MikhailLarionov, #RussianFolkTales, #SergeiDiaghilev
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May the Mather Inlaid Layer Remain a Major Lasting Stayer
Scottish-born Australian plein-air painter and etcher John Mather was born in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire in 1849. After studying art at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts he migrated to Australia in 1878. By 1880, Mather was partly responsible … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Artists A-Z, Furniture & Furnishings, Gallery Art
Tagged Aesthetic Movement, John Mather, plein air, William Henry Rocke
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Any port in a storm seems a far cry for Ambrogiani’s Le Port
French Expressionist painter, print-maker and sculptor Pierre Ambrogiani was born on January 16, 1907 in Ajaccio located on the west coast of the island of Corsica, 210 nautical miles (390 km) southeast of Marseille, France. Ambrogiani is known for his bright colors … Continue reading
Posted in Artists A-Z, Gallery Art, OilPainting, Paintings, Sculpture, Stained Glass
Tagged #Expressionism, French Expressionism, Pierre Ambrogiani
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Joseph Coteau’s work is as regular as clock-work
Joseph Coteau (1740-1801) was a well-respected French enameller who worked on skeleton clocks during the revolutionary period from 1789-1799. Image depicted (left) shows a gilt and enamelled bronze (chased) marble skeleton clock; (430x250x140cm) Foundation Napoleon Paris. (Donation Lapeyre inv.809). Although Joseph Coteau … Continue reading
The Object of Orphism
Sonia Delaunay was a Jewish-French artist who, along with her husband Robert Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colors and geometric shapes. Her work extends to painting, textile and stage set design. … Continue reading
From East to West – I’ve Goatcher Covered
Philip W. Goatcher was born on the 23rd November 1851, in London; the son of a scene painter. He left school in his early teens to work as a law clerk at Lincoln’s Inn. In his spare time he would visit … Continue reading
Posted in Artists A-Z, DecorativeArts, Illustrations, Paintings, Performing Art, Textiles
Tagged #Kalgoorlie, #Melbourne, #Victoria, #WesternAustralia, Bay of Naples, Block Arcade, Boulder, gold rush, goldrush towns, J. C. Williamson, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Philip Goatcher, Sadler's Wells Theatre, theatre backdrop curtains, theatre design
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There’s nothing bleek about Belleek
Belleek Pottery is a porcelain company that began trading in 1884 as the Belleek Pottery Works Company Ltd in Belleek, County Fermanagh, in Northern Ireland. The factory produces porcelain that is characterised by its thin and slightly iridescent surface and … Continue reading
Just one piece of the major Jigsaw
Jigsaw is a clothing retailer with outlets in Britain, the United States and an independent licencee in Australia. Formerly only a women’s clothier, Jigsaw launched their menswear range in 2012. The company is based on Mortlake Road in Kew, south west London and has 47 outlets across … Continue reading
