Word: cloisonn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unseated for eleven years until the restrictions against Jews were removed. He continued to represent the city until 1874 and finally resigned. Lionel Rothschild filled his house with one of the world's richest collections of Dutch and Flemish paintings, 18th Century French furniture, carvings, crystal, glass, porcelain, cloisonné, tapestries, chandeliers. Last week the contents of the house, even the iron footscrapers and carriage umbrellas, were up for public Auction...
First the Nation's guest had to have the Order of Merit (1st class) plus the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun with the gold & silver Medallion of the Rising Sun (with 31 rays) and the Imperial Paulownia Blossom, an affair of precious cloisonné. That was easy. Everything was easy in Tokyo last week for slightly rheumatic Guest Hsieh Kai-shih, snuff-taking Foreign Minister of Japan's new puppet state Manchukuo...