Word: cloisonn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing for his new church. Last week, with the backing of his parish, Monsignor Stephen turned up at the auction to bid against 100-odd hotel men, restaurateurs, other buyers. In addition to the bronze doors ($1,025), he acquired ten bronze plaques ($975), a bronze railing ($155), a cloisonné enamel bas-relief of a Norman knight ($380), and a bronze statue ($690) entitled "La Paix" (Peace). Slightly remodeled, "La Paix" will be enshrined in the church's square tower...
...former years most reports on China came from Americans who went out as missionaries, or as teachers, or as businessmen, or as long-term reporters or students. They soon observed also the tapestries and cloisonnés, and porcelains, the literary achievements, the mature wisdom, the basic goodness and friendliness of the people. They wanted to live their lives happily there, so they looked for and found the best. They learned what the Chinese have long known, that the loveliest flower of all, the lotus, frequently grows in the most uninviting surroundings...
Uninfluenced by other U.S. artists, indifferent to both money and publicity, shy, mop-headed Bloom has seldom sold a picture, never had an exhibition. But critics last week, gawping over his cloisonné-colored rabbis and gaudy transmogrified chandeliers, were willing to rate him as one of the most striking of U.S. colorists...
...built the outer court, patterned after the Petit Trianon at Versailles. There she gave her most famous party, the Bal Blanc, arranged by Ward McAllister, attended by the 400, and costing Mr. Oelrichs $30,000. Into Rosecliff she packed what Henry James called the "loot" of Europe: Gobelin tapestries, cloisonné vases, Renaissance statuary, Jacobean furniture, Sèvres china, paintings, libraries, silver sets, visiting aristocrats. In 1939, 13 years after she died, the Oelrichs family closed the house. Last week house and furnishings were auctioned...