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...dedicate and inspect the completed home of a collection appraised at $5,000,000 and offered to the city of Paris nine years ago. For nearly an hour he wandered through beautifully paneled rooms, expressing his presidential approval of cabinets of Sevres and Meissen ("Dresden") porcelain, jeweled watches, Battersea enamel, signed furniture from the great French ebenistes, a priceless series of tapestries from cartoons by Boucher, and the gem of the collection, "The Burgomaster's Daughter" by Lucas Cranach. Impulsively, M. le President rushed forward and wrung the hand of the spry little old gentleman who had given...
That His Majesty now regards this wine & women period of his princehood as a sort of Gethsemane appears from the design of The White Cross. On a white-enamel field the new decoration bears Carol's portrait in miniature, over his brow a cruel crown of thorns...
Another development for the modern dog is the Dog's Bath Club, London, a canine beauty parlor pictured last fortnight in the London Graphic. Here dogs are given baths in white enamel tubs, shampoos with the latest dog soap, are dried with the electric driers used in human beauty parlors. The lounge is decorated with dog murals by Ernest Mills, famed animal painter. The Prince of Wales gave him special permission to include his pet, princely Cairns in the picture. There is a cocktail bar where members may wag their tongues while waiting for their dogs...
...view 100 carpets, more than 1,000 textiles, 1,500 paintings & drawings, hundreds of the finest extant Persian book covers, more than 1,000 pieces of faïence, a priceless collection of illuminated manuscripts, bronzes from Achaemenian and Sassanian times, sculpture, architectural and ornamental detail, friezes, ceramics, enamel, glassware, brocades, velvets, tapestries, gold and silver work, a unique collection of Saljuk silverware, gold and silver inlay, lacquer work. Notable will be a group of remarkably preserved bronze Achaemenian objects of great sculptural beauty and vigor recently unearthed in Luristan Province by Dr. Friedrich Sarre, famed Berlin archeologist...
Pratt & Lambert, Inc. ("61" floor varnish, "Vitralite" enamel, "Vitroloid" lacquer): $1,251,000 as against...