Category: Brocante
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Love Letters
Antique French Love Letters, inked on paper with a quill, tender thoughts from a man to his woman, his heart expressed like many unfolded pages, in perfect script dated 1769, before any of our hearts had such pleasure of being…
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Brocante in France
The best Brocante market, upper-scale flea market, is in a cow pasture. Those two words don’t seem to go together, but there they are brocante and cow pasture, side by side. Besides looking for antiques one has to be careful…
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Details of French antiques
19th century French armoire. Gold thread tassels hang on a painted blue armoire
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French Antique
King of France, Prince de la Chicken Coop or just another pretty face? Who is this man? As I promised yesterday, here is Mademoiselle de la Chicken Coop’s, partner. His dashing red silk bow, and the details of gold, that…
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Who Is this French Woman
The French Mademoiselle I did not find this portrait in France. I found it inside a very small knick-knack shop in Northern California. A dealer of teacups and saucers, she had purchased an entire estate. The dealer told me that…
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Raphael and his Cherubs
POSTED: Two Chubby Children with Sweet faces, are needed to model for a painting Meet me at the SISTINE CHAPEL…Contact RAPHAEL. The painter, in his heavy linen stained smock, was very busy painting a woman holding a child. It wasn’t an…