Musings.

French Art Nouveau buckles and brooches.

Was in fact eavesdropping

Dating from 1900 and probably of German manufacture and boned with a combination of whalebone and flat steel. Made from black sateen and lined in white twill with casings and zone piece in red sateen. The decorative black flosswork is hand stitched.

From LACMA

An Art Nouveau ‘Bat’ necklace, attributed to Lucien Janvier, circa 1900. Composed of silver, silver gilt, plique-à-jour enamel and pearls.

Nagulb Mahfouz (via naturaekos)

Fontana dei Quattro Fiume, Rome, Italy

From Julien’s Auctions

Jean Deville, Parsifal, 1890

Greek, Attic, ca. 460 B.C.

Greek, ca. 330–300 B.C

Greek gold olive wreath, c. 4th century BCE. From Sotheby’s Auctions

Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that come down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endure. And of these histories most fair still in the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Luthien