Category: Brocante
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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…
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Reasons, Purpose and some imagination
Seeing things through a looking glass, without a Mirror “Do you see that piece of decorative metal there, it could be used as a picture frame?” As I point my pointer finger, to show my friend the direction of my…
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Antique Key to Chez Moi
The key The houses in France are old. The doors to the houses are old. So it goes to figure that the locks and keys, to the doors of the houses in France are old too. Often they look like…