Dress with Cape and Belt

Margaret Marks, Ltd.

About 1919

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Oval medallion with profile portrait of Charles V (1500-1558), was ruler of both the Spanish Empire from 1516 and the Holy Roman Empire from 1519, as well as of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1506. He voluntarily stepped down from these and other positions by a series of abdications between 1554 and 1556. Through inheritance, he brought together under his rule extensive territories in western, central, and southern Europe, and the Spanish colonies in the Americas and Asia. As a result, his domains spanned nearly four million square kilometers and were the first to be described as "the empire on which the sun never sets"
Small creamware dish of lobed shape with three stout conical feet on the underside, with an elaborate molded, scrolled handle highlighted in deep cobalt blue, the shell edge highlighted in same blue and gold.
Vase, David Puxley, Wedgwood, glazed stoneware
Oil lamp of black basalt resting on a small square plinth, plain round foot and stem, the lower body fluted, the upper body plain and with three extended openings for three wicks in the form of leafy brackets, the interior with three funnels to feed the wicks through, small beading around the lip, the wooden cover a replacement.