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Parchment Top Center Table
Posted on Oct 10th, 2017 | Perma LinkParchment or Vellum
Today the therm "parchment" is often used in non-technical contexts to refer to any animal skin, particularely goat, sheep or cow that has been scraped or dried under tension. The term originally referred only to the skin of sheep and occasionally goats. The equivalent material made from calfskin, which was of the finer quality was known as vellum(from the Old French velin or vellin and untimately from the Latin vitulus, meaning a calf) while the finest of all was "uterine vellum", taken from a calf foetus or stillborn calf.


English Oak Communion or Record Chest
Posted on May 3rd, 2017 | Perma LinkAn Oak Communion or Record Chest Dated 1640 with a dogtooth inlaid mouldingframe. The central front panel is carved with Presentation of the Infant Christ to the Lord. Flanked with arched panels with Ecclesiastical devices. The sides with crosses with INRI scrolls to the tops, the four panel top centered with two panels with the same Johannis Lloyd. The top rail carved with "Saynt Peter, 16 Salopia, 40 Saynt Paul", the lower rail carved with "Let Everie Thing Yt Hath Breath Praise Ye Lord". The stiles with Carytids and Dated 1640.
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Elizabeth Tysinger Webster - 6.8 lbs.
Posted on Apr 24th, 2017 | Perma Link"Grandchildren fill a place in your heart that you didn't know was empty"


French Black Leather Sofa "Appolo" by Parisian High Society Designer Jacques Charpentier
Posted on Apr 3rd, 2017 | Perma LinkFrench Black Leather Sofa Tagged as "Appolo" and Designed by Parisian High Society Designer Jacques Charpentier. Leather Cushions and Body with Chrome Frame.


Bible Box
Posted on Apr 1st, 2017 | Perma LinkA Bible box is a small container that is used to store a bible. About the size of a bible, this box could be used to transport in safety what was a very costly book. Many varieties had a slanted or angled top with a lower lip, meant to hold the Bible for reading, when the box was placed on a table. In a sense it then served as a portable lectern. Over the years the typical Bible box was also used or specifically built to contain writing implements such as a quill, ink pot, blotting paper and writing paper. The level or slanted surface of the box then served as a desktop, for writing as well as reading.
In much of Europe this kind of box was produced in many different materials, such as wood, metal or ceramics, in simple or extremely ornate styles. Bible boxes were popular in the 17th century. Many of the more refined examples can be found in museums.


Crèche de Noël or Nativity
Posted on Mar 17th, 2017 | Perma LinkIn the Catholic religion, the Christmas crib is a staging in various three-dimensional arts (essentially sculpture and theater) of the Nativity, that is to say, the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, in the form of Immutable characters, with the Holy Family and especially the Infant Jesus in the crib (which designates a manger) in a stable or a cave. This original iconography is gradually enriched with different scenic formulas, characters (shepherds, angels, Magi) and animals (beef, donkey, sheep, camels) surrounding the naked Child Jesus in his trough, his cradle or on the straw. The Christmas crib can be static, mechanical or living. Occasional or occasional construction or representation, traditionally associated with the Christmas holidays, it is more rarely a permanent and irremovable reproduction.
According to the Franciscan hagiographic tradition, living Christmas cribs developed in Europe from the thirteenth century onwards as part of one of the salient aspects of the theology of the Friars Minor, Christocentrism, following the realization of a living crib By Francis of Assisi in Greccio, Italy, on Christmas night 1223. At the end of the 16th century, the Jesuits, conscious of the power of the celebration of the Nativity, multiplied in all Christendom the crèches in model reduced as we know them today, using catechesis within the framework of the Counter-Reformation.
It allows people's piety to express themselves during liturgical or paraliturgical ceremonies. Given the secularization of the Christmas holiday, the crib is no longer exposed only in churches but also in houses and public buildings. Owing to their desire to ostentatize and outbid, shopping centers add local elements derived from legends or folklore, which vary according to the degree of inculturation or de-christianisation, even comic characters.


Noah's Ark
Posted on Mar 17th, 2017 | Perma LinkGenesis 7King James Version (KJV)
7 And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
5 And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him.
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in.
17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.


Gorgeous Rare Hand Made Wrought Iron Bed
Posted on Feb 22nd, 2017 | Perma LinkItalian wrought iron four poster campaign bed. The hexagonal knopped uprights with budding foliate finials joined by curtain rails. The head panel has elaborately wrought foliate and floral scrolling branches rising to a foliate scroll crest above conforming hexagonal spindle supports on out swept legs and pad feet.
Provenance: Luchino Visconti up until 1950. This bed appeared in the film "Queen Christina" starring Greta Garbo and was given to film star Fabrizio Mioni who went to Hollywood in 1954. Bought by Vincente Minnelli in 1960, Then "The Fellini Collection". A similar example is in the Henry Rene D'Allemagne Les Secq Des Tournelles, Museum of Rouen.


English Pawnbrokers Sign
Posted on Feb 13th, 2017 | Perma LinkA Pawnbrokers logo features the traditional symbol of the pawnbroker, which is three spheres suspended from a bar. As legend has it, this symbol traces back to the Medici family – a prominent family in Florence, Italy in the 15th century that was known for loaning and banking. The Medici family crest features the symbol of the three balls, because a member of the Medici family was supposedly working for Emperor Charles the Great and killed a giant with three bags of rocks. The Medicis were so well known as a finance family that other lenders and people in the finance business adopted similar coats of arms featuring the three golden balls. Gradually, the three balls came to signify the financial profession. Another story goes this way - Saint Nicolas, the patron saint of pawnbrokers, gave three bags of coins to the three daughters of a poor man so that they could marry. The three balls in the symbol represent the three bags of coins. Another lesser known possible origin is a coin dating to A.D. 68 during the Roman Empire. The coin, called the Silver Shekel or Shekel of Israel, was issued after a Jewish revolt against the Romans. The coin had an illustration of three pomegranates sharing one stalk. Whatever the exact origin, the symbol has staying power. It is a trademark of the industry, featured in numerous logos, including the logo of the National Pawnbrokers Association--the industry’s premier trade association. Also, the symbol is featured in pawn shops all over the world.


Venetian Gondola Chair
Posted on Feb 9th, 2017 | Perma LinkVenetian Gondola Chair with Storage Area Under Seat and Nail Head trim.
Gondola:Italian: is a traditional, flat bottomed Venetian rowing boat, well suited to the conditions of the Venetian lagoon. It is similar to a canoe except it is narrower. The rowing oar, which is not fastened to the hull, is used in a sculling manner, also acting as the rudder.For centuries the gondola was the chief means of transportation and most common watercraft within Venice. It is propelled by a gondolier. In modern times the iconic boats still have a role in public transport in the city, serving as traghetti over the Grand Canal. They are also used in special regattas (rowing races) held amongst gondoliers. Their primary role today, however, is to carry tourists on rides at fixed rates.
