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Friday, June 02, 2017

a beaded field

The Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection www.mfa.org
Crafted in France around 1715, this pocketbook is known by the eagle and sun on its obverse side: "Device of Louis XIV." Louis XIV was the Sun King, but I see just as much radiance in the reverse side I've shown here.  This lush natural scene is all done in strung-together glass beads.  Do you see the dog at hunt over on the left?  Here's an enhance, with bonus squirrel:



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