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In French, a variety of display cases, such as a store sales table or the Perspex glass protecting a piece of ceramics in a museum display, can be referred to as a vitrine. Additionally, a large event which is designed to exhibit or showcase merchandise, a topic or theme, can also be referred to as a vitrine, such as a "vitrine d'excellence".
Alfies Antique Market is a large indoor market located on Church Street in Lisson Grove, London. [1] It houses over seventy-five dealers offering antiques; including silver, furniture, jewellery, paintings, ceramics, glass and vintage clothing .
The meaning of "cabinet" began to be extended to the contents of the cabinet; [9] thus we see the 16th-century cabinet of curiosities, often combined with a library. The sense of cabinet as a piece of furniture is actually older in English than the meaning as a room, but originally meant more a strong-box or jewel-chest than a display-case. [10]
Antiques Roadshow is a British television programme broadcast by the BBC in which antiques appraisers travel to various regions of the United Kingdom (and occasionally in other countries) to appraise antiques brought in by local people (generally speaking).
A curio cabinet with vases. Curio cabinets of Catharina, wife of Douwe Sirtema van Grovestins. A curio cabinet is a specialised type of display case, made predominantly of glass with a metal or wood framework, for presenting collections [1] of curios, like figurines or other interesting objects that invoke curiosity, and perhaps share a common theme.
Cabinet - Oak veneered with Macassar and Gabon ebony, ebonized fruitwood, burl wood, and marquetry of tortoiseshell and brass; gilt bronze André-Charles Boulle's Protestant family environment was a rich and artistic milieu totally consistent with the genius of the Art he was to produce in later years.
The veneers used are primarily woods, but may include bone, ivory, turtle-shell (conventionally called "tortoiseshell"), mother-of-pearl, pewter, brass or fine metals.. Marquetry using colored straw was a specialty of some European spa resorts from the end of the 18th ce
Although today principally a museum of cultural art objects and antiquities, the British Museum was founded as a "universal museum". Its foundations lie in the will of the Anglo-Irish physician and naturalist Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753), a London-based doctor and scientist from Ulster .