Word: gobelin
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...John Mortimer had shipped the collection to London, not only hoping for a readier market there but also tempted by Christie's low commission (7½%). Over the block passed Flemish, early German and French paintings, English mezzotints, sketches and water colors by Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard; Gothic, Gobelin and Beauvais tapestries; Louis XIV carpets, Louis XV gueridons, Louis XVI marquetry and console tables; della Robbia terra cottas, Sevres porcelain, Limoges enamels, Ispahan rugs, Italian crystal and marbles, bronzes, Oriental rugs, precious saltcellars, marriage coffers, inkstands, candlesticks...
Hitherto when insects and larvae attacked fine Gobelin tapestries, or worms burrowed deep into the soft wood of old chairs, very little could be done about it. Now, however, the objects suspected of harboring any of nature's anarchists are simply locked up in a dark safe-like room and thoroughly fumigated with carboxide gas for a period of from 24 to 36 hours...
...great Gobelin tapestries of boar-hunting and falconry went for $11,000 apiece. A Gainsborough was knocked down for $6,700, a Joshua Reynolds landscape for only $1,600, a Jan Steen for $3,200, a Rembrandt Peale Washington for $3,400. A Chippendale mahogany and needlepoint settee sold for $2,600; two silver chocolate pots and brandy saucepan for $820. Three Gothic stained & painted glass panels and a roundel were taken out of the west window for $1,400. Then the auctioneers walked all over the house, auctioning as they went, sold off even the servants' billiard table...
...better prices and Housekeeper Catherine Viles wept salty tears of sadness, bidders and gapers were able to glean from the house's elaborate furnishings how pious Lumberman Long liked to spend his days. At the foot of a marble and bronze stairway was a red plush and Gobelin tapestry sofa (sold to Harry Jacobs for $410) on which Mr. Long and the late Ella Wilson Long used to sit only at Christmas when they gave presents to the servants. In the French salon beneath an enormous pear-shaped crystal chandelier (sold to Dr. Abraham Sophian...
...Because Gobelin tapestry experts in 1892 fixed its date as about the time of Christ, because chemical analyses proved its stains to be blood, the Holy Tunic would seem to have better claims to authenticity than two other famed relics, the Holy Coat of Trier and the Holy Shroud of Turin. The Holy Shroud of Turin, an ancient piece of linen cloth in a silver casket locked with three silver keys, has belonged to the House of Savoy for 500 years. In 1898 it was the centre of a bitter controversy when art-historians suggested its outline of Christ...