Tuesday, February 13, 2024
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| We had seen so many TV ads for this fast food joint ... |
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... that we had to try their famous chicken fingers,
which had a tasty but different breading |
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View of Cochrane Atrium with a café
on the first floor and restaurant on the second |
We started on the third floor in the Art Nouveau galleries.
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| Wisteria Choker (1900-1902, by Philippe Wolfers, Belgian) |
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Wisteria Choker detail; the flowers are made with
watermelon tourmaline and opal |
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| Sabbeth Princess Collar (c 1899, by René Lalique, French) (KSS) |
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Bedroom Suite (c 1905-1908, by Louis Marjorelle, French)
with gilded-bronze mounts in the shape of waterlilies |
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Vase (1898, by Louis Chalon and
Eugène Feuillâtre, French) (KSS) |
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Fennel Coffee Service (1898-1902, by Léon Kann
at Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory) |
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| The Fennel Coffeepot has a beetle finial |
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Mantel Clock, (1895, by Charles Francis
Annesley Voysey, English); the letters in place
of numbers spell tempus fugit/time flies (KSS) |
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Punch Bowl with Three Ladles (1900,
by Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company) |
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| Lamps by Tiffany Studios (KSS) |
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| Dragonfly Lamp (c 1900, by Clara Driscoll at Tiffamy Studios) |
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| Stairwell in every corner |
American Sporting:
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Manuel and Ben Tending to Tobacconist (1833, by
Edward Troye), the difference between sporting paintings
by the Americans and by the British is that the workers
included by Americans were enslaved |
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The Race (c 1800, by Carle Vernet, French) shows
elongated horses with all four feet off the ground -
the trend until photographs showed the true form |
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Bad Fall at a Paling Fence (c 1840-1850, by
Henry Thomas Alken, English); many of the paintings
about fox hunting showed "oops" moments |
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Fishing on the River Avon, near Fordingbridge, Hampshire;
Fishing for a Pike (1942, by Henry Thomas Alken) |
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The Joys of the Chase or The Rising Woman and
the Falling Man (1780, by John Collet, English) |
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| Marble Hall is almost fully encased in Italian pink marble |
Art Deco (including Arts & Crafts) galleries:
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Armchair (c 1904-1906, by Frank Lloyd Wright
for the Larkin Soap Company Administration
Building in Buffalo, NY; demolished) |
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| Lamp (c 1915-1918, by Fulper Pottery Company) (KSS) |
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Two Chairs (c 1925, by Clément Rousseau,
French) made with natural-gray shagreen/
sharkskin, a favorite material of the time |
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Suite of Furniture (1926, by Félix del Marle, French,
for his own residence) |
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| Bird Cage on Stand (c 1920, by Pierre Legrain) |
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Venus and Love (c 1934, by Emile Just Bachelet)
is made from an elephant tusk/ivory |
Next: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts II.
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