Polychrome- and gilt-painted, Dresden lace figurine of a blonde-haired, blue-eyed, fair-skinned woman in dark blue or black hat and matching dress adorned in layers upon layers of pink lace; undecorated oval base. She carries a basket of pink roses in her right arm and lifts up her skirt with her left as she steps forward. Bottom underside is faintly stamped or inscribed "CHANTILLY" and "424".
Lille type lidded and spouted bulbous flagon on an applied, flared and molded base. Flat-top cyma-molded lid is incised with a series of concentric circles. Uncovered, inset faceted spout with two graduated beads below. Plain strap handle has a plain rectangular thumb piece, ridged thumbrest and short square terminal with oval strut; five-knuckle hinge. Bottom underside also has two sets of incised concentric circles and is struck twice, both partial, with touchmark of the raised serif letters "•A•I•C•" in an imperial crown over a Tudor rose.
Bracket-handled, cylindrical metric measure with high collar pinched into spout at front and sloped at back for the rounded inset lid; molded lower rim and base. Hooked tab thumb piece with wedge extension; seven-knuckle hinge. Stamped on front of body "DOUBLE LITRE" in incuse serif letters; on front of lower rim, face of handle and top of lid with clasped hands in a small oval; and along top of inside rim with 19 illegible letter verification marks. Underside of flat bottom struck once with touchmark "LECLERC (arched) / A LILLE / HUMBERT (curved)" in an oval. One of an assembled set of six metric measures, DL*67.0334-.0339.
Bracket-handled, cylindrical metric measure with high collar pinched into spout at front and sloped at back for the rounded inset lid; molded lower rim and base. Hooked tab thumb piece with wedge extension; five-knuckle hinge; stepped thumbrest. Stamped on front of body "DOU[B]LE / [D]ECIL[ITRE]" in incuse serif letters; on front of lower rim with "** / 3" next to clasped hands in an oval; on face of handle and top front of lid with clasped hands mark; and on extension and top of rim with an indecipherible number of letter verification marks. Underside of flat bottom struck once with arched touchmark "ALBERT" in incuse serif letters. One of an assembled set of six metric measures, DL*67.0334-.0339.
Low Warp loom for Beauvais Tapestry; "Basse Lisse". From Beauvais, France. Horizontal loom, having a floral and fruit design traced on the cotton warp, showing a completed portion of the tapestry design woven by hand with 'spoulins' (shuttles or bobbins). The spoulins are numbered .1-.12
A charcoal, pastel, and watercolor drawing on paper of a road between Jaulgonne and Mount St. Pierre, France, during the Second Battle of the Marne on July 22, 1918. Depicted are two ammunition trucks driving along the war torn road. The truck at the back is partially obscured by fog or smoke in the background. On the right, a dead American soldier is lying on the side of the road next to a tree stump. His helmet is lying in the middle of the road. On the left, an American soldier is kneeling on the side of the road by a wooden cross. An explosion of yellow, red, and black smoke rises into the air behind him. Written at the bottom by the artist in pencil is: "Sketch. The road between / Jacqluer [sic] & Mont St. Pierre / on the Marne. July 22, / 1918. / One of Col. [illegibile]s Racehorses / These ammunitions trucks went / where ambulances could not and / served the double purpose of ammunitions / carriers and ambulances."
A sample book of machine-made lace, French, 2nd half 19th century. From: J. Gaillard, Pere et Fils. Saint-Pierre-lez-Calais, France. Blue cloth covered volume, 19.25” L x 12” W x ¾” D; Embossed gold lettering and border on front cover. Interior of 26 blue paper leaves with pasted in samples of machine-made lace in various styles, sizes, mostly black or white. More than one sample per page; each paper leaf has samples on both sides. Each sample has a small paper tag in the upper right corner with a style number and price per yard. Exquisite examples of Leavers-machine made lace trimmings for apparel and furnishing uses. The U.S. Leavers lace industry grew after the tariff on imported Leavers machines was removed for several months by the Payne-Aldrich Tariff of 1909.
Bracket-handled, cylindrical metric measure with high collar pinched into spout at front and sloped at back for the rounded inset lid; molded lower rim and base. Hooked tab thumb piece with wedge extension; five-knuckle hinge. Stamped on front of body "DECILITRE" in incuse serif letters; on front of lower rim with "** / 3" next to clasped hands in an oval; on face of handle and top front of lid with clasped hands mark; and on extension and top of rim with an indecipherible number of letter verification marks. Underside of flat bottom struck once with arched touchmark "ALBERT" in incuse serif letters. One of an assembled set of six metric measures, DL*67.0334-.0339.
Lille type lidded and spouted bulbous or bellied flagon on an applied flared base. Flat-top cyma-molded lid. Uncovered, inset, cyma-curved spout with one bead below. Plain strap handle has a plain rectangular thumb piece, ridged thumbrest and short terminal; five-knuckle hinge. Bottom underside struck with three touchmarks, "OUDART / LILLE / *" in raised serif letters bordered by scrolls, "[I] B / O" around a fleur-de-lis inside a pair of crossed laurel branches, and "[I] B O" in an imperial crown over a Tudor rose.
Maker is Jean-Baptiste Oudart of Lille, France; master status in 1775.
This guitar was made by Deleplanque in Lille, France in 1790. It is a ten course (6x1, 4x1) theorboed guitar with a spruce top and maple sides and back. This guitar bears the printed label: “PEERENS-DELEPLANQUE, [/] MARCHAND LUTHIER, au coin de [/] la rue de la Grand-Chaufl ée, [/]à Lille, 1790,” with “90” handwritten.
This guitare angloise was made by Gérard Deleplanque in Lille, France in 1769. It is a seven course (4x2, 3x1) guitar. The guitar is stamped below the soundhole: “G [/] DELEPLANQUE [/] A LILLE” and bears the printed label: “GERARD J. DELEPLANQUE, [/] Luthier,rue de la Grande- [/] Chauffee, coin de coin de celle des [/] Dominicians, à Lille 1769,” with “69” handwritten.