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Fan 1900 - Watercolour on silk, with painted mother-of-pearl sticks and guards V & A
guglielmina s onto Art Nouveau
Workbox - India, per 1880 sandalwood, silk overlaid with pierced ivory within borders of sadeli, ebony and ivory; silvered-brass mounts
Ring - Victoria & Albert Museum - Search the Collections
"Coronation" collection Evening dress (1953). Artist/Maker: John Cavanagh; Oliver Hilary Sambourne Messel; Sekers. Materials and Techniques: Brocaded silk. Credit Line: Given by Lady Cornwallis (worn by her at the Coronation celebrations) Museum number: T.294-1984
This jewellery case is decorated with beadwork, a popular embroidery technique in the 17th century, in which tiny glass beads were threaded in sequence and sewn into place. The padded central panel lifts open to show a compartment for jewellery, lined with pink taffeta. The quality of glass beads and other material, and the involvement of a cabinet-maker in making the beadwork up into such a box, would mean that it could only be made within a household which could afford such outlay. Being such
Ring, Sicily or Italy, 1100 to 1200, gold, cast and chased
Seal ring - Victoria & Albert Museum - Search the Collections 1545-1575
Fire screen / Turned and Gilded Wood, the Panel Glazed and Set with Stuffed Birds / UK / 1850
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Kaos onto Kaos Birds
late 19th century - early 20th century (made). Cotton, with freehand paste-resist decoration (tsutsugaki), and quilted in cotton stitches (sashiko). The motif of a dragon, a magical beast who brought storms when it descended from the heavens, served to wrap the fireman in divine protection. The jacket is reversible, and during a fire the plain side would be revealed. When the fire had been defeated - and on festival days - the dynamic image would be revealed.Victoria & Albert Museum
The reuse and recycling of materials to create modern, ethically responsible objects became an important trend within British design in the 1980s. Deborah Thomas's ‘Northern Fleet’ chandelier, which is constructed from shards of broken glass, is a spectacular example of this movement.
Winfrid de Munck onto Design
The 'Pogo' chair was created by the architect- designers, Peter and Alison Smithson, for the 'House of the Future' exhibit at the Ideal Home Exhibition of 1956.
Tribe's cover star this month...We'r so patriotic ;)
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Wallpaper design by C F A Voysey, c.1897, possibly for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee of 1897; incorporates a royal crown, rose of England, thistle of Scotland, and shamrock of Ireland. (Victoria & Albert Museum)
Margaret ('Peg') Woffington, Actress, by Jean-Baptiste van Loo, c1738. Victoria & Albert Museum. Couldn't resist adding another portrait of the famously vivacious Peg, the most popular actress of her time.
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Ornamental dish, Coalport Porcelain Factory, c.1830.
Chandelier from Wroxton Abbey in Oxfordshire. Made c.1815.
Wine glass by Perrin, Geddes & Co, c.1806.
Drawings for Garter jewel and others by Lulls - Victoria & Albert Museum
Pendants - from a book of designs by Lulls. Victoria and Albert.
Drawing for jewelled fan by Lulls - Victoria & Albert Museum
Curative pendant - peridot, hessonite garnet and sapphire, open-set so as to make contact with the wearer's skin. Victoria & Albert Museum
Furnishing fabric - Windrush - Victoria & Albert Museum - Search the Collections
Julia Shone onto Art
Peapod or trailing scroll design. Miniature case after Jean Toutin - Victoria & Albert Museum
Sacred Monogram (similar to the one in Holbein's portrait of Jane Seymour) Drawing from Arnold Lull's inventory of jewels.
Sacred Monogram (IHS), c. 1560 collections.vam.a...
