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In front of him was the famous French table, crowded as usual with a multitude of miscellaneous objets d'art, conspicuous among them a pair of Tanagra figures, white visions of pure grace, amid the dusty confusion of their surroundings. Suddenly Melrose flung his cigarette vehemently away. "Faversham! Don't be a fool! I have something to say to you a deal more important than this damned nonsense!"
There were fourteen statues in this gallery mounted on Buhl pedestals, and all round the walls were richly decorated ebony buffets containing objets d'art, while in the centre stood carved wooden cases, which showed to great advantage some of the greatest rarities in human work costly jewellery, and curiosities in ivory, bronze, wood, and enamel.
Poussin's contemporaries praised him chiefly as a preceptor, an inculcator of historical truths, more especially the truths of classical and Hebrew history. That is why Philippe de Champaigne deplores the fact that in his Rebecca "Poussin n'ait pas traité le sujet de son tableau avec toute la fidélité de l'histoire, parce qu'il a retranché la représentation des chameaux, dont l'Ecriture fait mention." But Le Brun, approaching the question from a different angle, comes heavily down on his scrupulous colleague with the rejoinder that "M. Poussin a rejeté les objets bizarres qui pouvaient débaucher l'oeil du spectateur et l'amuser
Flowers of great variety and beauty filled the rooms with a delicious though slightly oppressive fragrance. On every side my eyes were delighted with rare vases, jewelled cups and boxes, burnished chalices, dainty statuettes, objets de virtu, Oriental and European, antique and modern, blending the old barbaric splendors with the graces of the younger arts.
JAPANESE FURNITURE: Early History Sir Rutherford Alcock and Lord Elgin The Collection of the Shogun Famous Collections Action of the present Government of Japan Special characteristics. PERSIAN WOODWORK: Collection of Objets d'Art formed by General Murdoch Smith, R.E. Industrial Arts of the Persians Arab influence South Kensington Specimens.
Some prefer antiques a bit dilapidated; a missing detail serving as a hallmark to calm doubts; others insist upon completeness to the eye and solidity for use; while the connoisseur, with unlimited means, recognises nothing less than signed sofas and chairs, and other objets d'art.
I offered sympathy and witch-hazel, but she would have none of my offerings, and presently returned to her pies. "We can't eat all that pastry," I protested. "Professor Farrago said they were not for us to eat," she said, dusting each pie with powdered sugar. "Well, what are they for? The dog? Or are they simply objets d'art to adorn the shanty " "You annoy me," she said.
It should not be littered up with personal things magazines, books and work-baskets and objects that belong in the living-room but it welcomes flowers and objets d'art, collections of fans, or miniatures, or graceful mirrors, or old French prints, or enamels, or porcelains. It should be a place where people may converse without interruption from the children.
In this series of competitive trials eight different countries entered the lists. The prizes were twelve objets d'art placed at the disposal of Monsieur Tisseraud, the "director-general of agriculture and horticulture of France," and the jury selected to attend the trials.
It was late when we returned to the house. After reaching my room I found that I had left my cloak in the arbor. It was a strong fabric: the dew could not hurt it, but it could hurt my sketching materials and various trifles in the wide inside pockets objets de luxe to me, souvenirs of happy times, little artistic properties that I hang on the walls of my poor studio when in the city.
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