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Twin Size. This ultra-sleek and streamlined two-tone canopy bed with upholstered headboard from the custom Tara Shaw Maison collection has been featured in several shelter magazines,...

This Louis XVI style canopy bed with upholstered headboard from the custom Tara Shaw Maison collection. Handcrafted in New Orleans. Standard headboard upholstered in a oyster heavywe...

This elegant Venetian-style headboard is part of the custom Tara Shaw Maison collection. Handcrafted in New Orleans. Available in king, queen and twin sizes. Inquire for Full, Califo...

This elegant Venetian-style headboard is part of the custom Tara Shaw Maison collection. Handcrafted in New Orleans. Available in King, Queen and Twin sizes. Inquire for Full, Califo...

Very nice ca 1790 Qianlong period. Inscription: William Brown & Eleanor Newcastle This refers to the Ship Eleanor and the owner/captain William Brown The Ship Eleanor was build in ...

Sharing with you this lovely chinese porcelain teapot in grisaille/encre de chine. The pot has a nice and unusual village scene with figures and animals. It shows a scene of the dail...

A Chinese Porcelain Caddy with an erotic scene Yongzheng Qianlong period Fantastic and highly detailed decoration in Grisaille/Encre de Chine Chickens having intercourse. Beautiful piece for collectors. Museum Example. Encre de Chine The use of black enamel in imitation of drawings or prints was first developed at the end of the reign of the Kangxi emperor (1662-1722) and the Yongzheng reign (1723-1730). Chinese porcelains decorated in ink colour became popular in Europe around 1740, and until about 1790 continental clients continued to order them, especially for armorials, because the ink-colour process so readily duplicated the engraved bookplates supplied to the decorators as source materials. The technique may have been developed first for use on glass in the 1660s in Germany, where it was called schwarzlot. Eighteenth-century shipping records sometimes may have referenced it as pencilled ware because it was executed with a thin brush called a pencil. Albert Jacquemart dubbel it encre-de-Chine. Another name Jesuit ware was used still...

Stunning pair of 18th century Damascene Vases made of solid brass inlaid with copper and pure silver inlay a gorgeous decoration. Each vase has matchin...