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SILKEN SPLENDOURS OF THE SERENE REPUBLIC V ENICE began life as a province of the Eastern Empire, ruled by the

... only a new independence but also much of the loot. Nevertheless, until the fall of the Venetian Republic to Napoleon in May 1797, Venice was culturally and economically the mo t eastwardlooking of European cities. one of her arts escaped that influence-let ...

Published: Thursday 29 May 1997
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1681 | Page: 70 | Tags: none

COUNTRY LIFE - DECEMBER 3 , 1959 dipped into liquid lead glaze and refired in the glost-kiln, emerging with a

... Brighton bathing woman. No more tha n two specimens are recorded, decorated with colour glazes. Her white mob cap is topped with a hat, decorated at the front with Prince of \Vales's feathers in high relief, sprigged in position. gra. ping a bottle of ...

Published: Thursday 03 December 1959
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1473 | Page: 75 | Tags: none

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... offer a complete service. Tel: 0171 235 5572 BLACK SILK TOP HATS Proper, old silk hats for sale \ § Great shapes in fine condition. o | Most sizes in stock at sensible prices. || HETHERINGTON HATS Tel: 0171 730 2948 . www.toppers.co.uk ...

Published: Thursday 09 September 1999
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1554 | Page: 191 | Tags: none

A CAST-IRON KITCHE ER ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF LAST CENTURY St.e /Llter A 1t Early K itchtlll:f Otherwise many would

... struggling ashore from the leek through the breaking waves. We first sailed round to the scene the catastrophe and I saw t hat the rose sheer out of deep wat er, were large smooth perpendicular like the side of a castle, with long broad t ongues it h ...

Published: Friday 21 May 1943
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2258 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

K ATHERI E BosA QUET, Warminst er, Wiltsbire

... appe rs to have been attached by the other end to the top. The top unscrews and has a blade practically the full depth, w 1 th an upturned lower end forming a small se op. When one unscrews the top, six segments, or petals, which are hinged at the base ...

Published: Thursday 01 April 1954
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2248 | Page: 41 | Tags: none

Hunting Whip, Lad y's or Gent's,

... NEAT and STRONG manner. 29!6 the usefulness of a Seat Stick with the protection of 28/6 a Sports Um brei la- Stitched Velvet HAT 37!6 Illustrated Christmas Gift Catalogue Post Free on request PICCADILLY CIRCUS, LONDON, W COUNTRY LIFE. HARRY HAil 7'n w· ...

Published: Saturday 02 December 1933
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1371 | Page: 154 | Tags: none

IDEAL NATURE RESERVE

... contains t he rare alpine char, t hat fascinating l andlocked member of the trout fa mil y. Much of the plentiful literature about the district, from Elizabeth Grant's Memoirs of a H ighland Lady, which deals with the period 1797 to 1830, to Desmond ~etherso ...

Published: Thursday 10 September 1953
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2547 | Page: 55 | Tags: none

A REDISCOVERED TERBURG A ONG widely Dutch are and

... perusal of a letter which has just been delivered to her by a rustic messenger, a bearded man in long grey cloak holding his felt hat in one hand and a long walking staff in the The lady, fashionably dressed other. The lady, fashionably dressed though she is ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1924
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2034 | Page: 98 | Tags: none

THE ROYAL NAVY'S DARKEST HOUR

... THE ROYAL NAVY'S DARKEST HOUR 976 TALKING ABOUT SALE-ROOMS T HE Mutiny of the Nore in 1797 is one of the more degrading epi od s of our island story ; the marvel is that it did not occur ooner and that it ended as it did. While it lasted it jolted My ...

Published: Thursday 23 April 1964
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2702 | Page: 43 | Tags: none

TWO CHEERES

... his reputation was J anus heads top the handles and the snouts of wild boar peer through the foliage beneath. The original pair for this design is in the Parterre 3-Gilt-bronze urn of about 1870, withjanus heads topping the handles, cast by Jaboeuf & '-~~ ...

Published: Thursday 11 March 2004
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1270 | Page: 95 | Tags: none

OLD GLORY GOES HOME

... of Maryland from 1797-98, and it is thought likely that it wa presented at the time Baltimore received its first harter in 1797. Thanks to it I shall never forget from now on that to the original 13 states of the Union, two-Kentucky and Vermont-were added ...

Published: Thursday 25 November 1965
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3229 | Page: 53 | Tags: none