06 Sunday Mar 2011
Posted in 18th century, Antique shoes, Lillian Williams
Stripes…
Florals….
And ruffles…
From Lillian Williams’ fabulous collection of 18th century French shoes…
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Via World of Interiors June 2005
Photography Bruno Suet
Don’t worry…whatever goes out of style
comes back in..
Lest you doubt the depth of my obsession with
these dainty little marvels…
Earlier posts about 18th century shoes here
For 21st century update…see Sarah Klassen’s Haute Design post here
28 Friday Aug 2009
Posted in 18th century, Antique prints, Antique shoes
Ghostly image of Marie Antoinette’s private chambers…
“The Cabinet de la Meridienne, a small octagonal room decorated
in 1782 to celebrate the birth of the Dauphin. This is one of the rooms
at Versaille where we can most readily imagine Marie Antoinette’s life,
and understand her style. The subtle interplay of mirrors creates the
sense of intimate privacy actively sought by the queen…”
Marie Antoinette Style
Adrien Goetz
Marie Antoinette’s Jewels…
A bracelet of cameos and rubies…
“The archives of the house of Mellerio perserved the written trace
of the purchase of this bracelet for the queen. Marie Antoinette
loved jewels. But she managed to resist the costliest temptations,
such as the famous “queen’s necklace” which she refused
to buy…”
Click below for clips from the movie…
The ” Queen’s Necklace” engraving
c. 1785
Musee du Chateau de Versailles
Reconstruction of the so called “Queen’s Necklace”…
acquired by Chateau Versailles in 1963
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Ruddy leather shoes with silk ruches…
c. 1785-95 Netherlands
Amsterdam…
A great museum source for antique accessories…
sorted by time, type, color…
Silver and paste earrings…
paste, cut glass, was often used as a substitute for diamonds…
late 18th century
Studious recreation…
Jean Paul Gaultier
c. 1994
Imagining the chandeliers being lowered from their great height
so that formally frocked footman can light their thousand tapers
to fill the cavernous ball room with candlelight…
“A Masked Ball held for the King and Queen by the city
of Paris on 23 Jan 1782 to mark the Dauphin’s birth”
Marie Antointette Style
Shades of gray, crystal drops, antique prints and script,
Ruffled, embroidered and buttoned Court frocks…
Timeless hand hewn stone and curled iron banisters…
Something to build a room around…
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Last photo Paris Style
05 Wednesday Aug 2009
Posted in 18th century, Antique prints, Antique shoes, Grisaille
Tiny black and white engraving
from pocket memorandum (2.5″ X 2″)
c. 1791
Whitework adorned cotton fichu…
England end of 18th century
Late 18th century British buttons…
Silk and leather shoes…
18th century England
Engraved mother of pearl Dance Card case…
2.75″ X 1.75″
c. 1830
Woman and her dog
tiny (3.5′ X 2.5″)
c. 1808
Tiny Georgian engraving…
c. 1805
4.5″ X 3.5″
click for more
c. 1808
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Ladies’ pocket memorandums…
…contained snippets of fashion, household accounting,
details of parties and balls, sketches, plans, poetry…
03 Monday Aug 2009
Posted in Antique shoes, Artist
Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form,
can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Color saturated plaster wall
offset by glints of gold…
La Vie en Rose
Suzanne Lowry
Italian leather gloves
Late 18th to early 19th century
French silk bodice
18th century
Festooned with floral sprays and
trimmed with vibrant salmon pink…
Embroidered notebook…
cream silk with pink and blue flowers
c. 1750
Late 18th century…
made in Venice, Italy
a vibrant azure toned leather…
detailed in bright raspberry
The bright color is exciting,vivacious…
a glimpse into the vitality of the past
Two 17th century gilded ottomans
at the foot of a bed at Knole
Kent, England
The Bed
Alecia Beldegreen
Partial view of Lady Agnew
with gold etched azure background…
John Singer Sargent
c. 1892-1893
Gold stars play off deeper azure plaster walls…
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Title quote from A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
“As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer…”
17 Wednesday Jun 2009
Posted in 18th century, Antique Fabric, Antique shoes, Script
Tags
18th century clothing, 18th century shoes, 19th century Clothing, Antique clothing, Antique textiles, French curiosities, Metalic embroidery, Script
Found at an antique shop in Louisiana,
alongside a dated portrait of it’s owner wearing it.
Only the hat was purchased, then it sold again, and again
with only a whisper of it’s story trailing behind..
c. 1790
Jefferson street
Natchitoches, Louisiana
Early American linen corset…
Worn by Miss Susanna Lincoln on her wedding day
January 14, 1779
English silk moire bridal shoes with attached note:
Bride’s shoe (paste buckles missing) worn at her wedding
by Catharine Quested in October 1782
Trapunto corded corset
owned by A.B. Colby…
from an estate in Lincoln, Massachussets
The Colbys were an old New England Family with several Abigails …
c. 1820
antique chemise…
with owner’s initials
c. 1820-1830
Rare metallic brocaded dress c. 1810
recently required from the descendants of
Revolutionary War veteran
Captain Rufus Lincoln (1751-1838)
Silk on linen sampler
c. 1802
by Jane Bird
Silk on linen antique sampler
c. 1827
by Martha C. Hooton
Fine white work, bobbin lace hankerchief…
crown emblem signifies it belonged
to a member of the royal family
c. 1800s
05 Friday Jun 2009
Posted in 18th century, 19th century, Antique prints, Antique shoes, France, French Interiors
A woman’s sack- back gown, yellow and white silk…
English c.1760
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Fashion in Detail
Mustard yellow satin c. 1740
Shoes and Slippers by MacKenzie
18th century silk court shoes with buckle
Fulgence collection, Paris
Silk by Anquetil
Brussels home
Fabrics by Lebeau
small enough for a sunshine nap
on two french chairs….
antique french prints…
Early 18th century color wheel
Paris yellow promenade gown c. 1868
Sunshine yellow salon of french interior designer
and journalist Marie-Paul Pelle…
Directoire teacups made for Pelle’s mother
in the 40’s by Le Vase Etrusque.
Paris Interiors by Lovatt-Smith
Antique French fashion plate
“Galerie des Modes”, 1778-1787
Unwrapped by Carolyn Quartermaine
Lemon box…one of my early finds…
Herend
04 Thursday Jun 2009
Posted in Antique Fabric, Antique shoes
Tags
cerise, rosy, crimson, blowsy, erubescent…
Schiaparelli stacked round hat boxes…
For more about Elsa Schiaparelli…
(photo via This is Glamorous )
Quilted cotton gently fading to raspberry red…
Antique French Toile D’Alsace
c. 1840
Morgaine Le Fay Antique Textiles
“Pour Mochoirs” … handkerchiefs…
“En soie rouges avec broderies”…
Embroidered fading red silk pouch
c. 1840
Ebay France
Early 19th century silk slippers
Silk shoes c. 1740
“Shoes and Slippers” from the Snowshill collection
from my collection of favorite House and Garden pages …
Love the round window, chandelier, red rose print and striped coverlet
Marquis de St. Cloud
Trouvais 