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The frame is decorated with rococo motifs and ornament, c-scrolls, shells, cartouches, festoons of flowers, scrolling leaves, and fluting. The plate is signed. Credit Line Purchased for the Museum by ...
The 8-foot-long, 41-inch-wide floating hunk of wood is made of balsa and intricately carved with rococo motifs like floral accents and scrolling curves, according to the auction house.
Le rococo (ou style « rocaille ») est un mouvement artistique français du XVIII e siècle touchant principalement l’architecture, mais également dans une grande partie, l’ornementation, l’ameublement, ...
Lately the American president has been spending quite a bit of time redecorating the Oval Office. The results can only be called a gilded rococo hellscape. If our leader’s appearance is a ...
The board, decorated in Louis XV style with Rococo motifs, once formed part of the entrance to the first-class lounge – but it broke off when the vessel sank on April 14, 1912. It’s been part of the ...
Similar ceramic apothecary containers that traditionally stored crude drugs, liquids and ointments – basically the medieval version of Costco bulk – have for centuries featured baroque and ...
The pieces sit within a specially created environment that combines traditional Rococo motifs such as shells and cherubs with more unlikely decorative references including fish bones, scissors and ...
Title page for a series of carriage designs. The title and dedication are lettered in the lower center framed by a cartouche within a larger for the back of a carriage featuring the coat of arms of ...
The 8-foot-long, 41-inch-wide floating hunk of wood is made of balsa and intricately carved with rococo motifs like floral accents and scrolling curves, according to the auction house.