ANTIQUE TAPESTRIES AND NEEDLEWORK PICTURES
A GOOD POST-MORTLAKE MYTHOLOGICAL TAPESTRY from Ovid’s Metamorphoses of Pygmalion sculpting the image of a maiden, observed by Minerva, beyond holding a naming torch as a symbol of his love he implores Venus to bring the statue to life, baroque buildings in the distance and a fountain in a grove [...]

Antique Chinese Carpets
It is only in the last few decades that Chinese carpets, previously overshadowed by the enthusiasm of collectors for Persian carpets, have been given the attention they long deserved. While the quality of Chinese carpets declined at the end of the 19th century, in part due to an increasing use of chemical dyes, [...]