Theatrical Set Designs and other Fripperies for New Years Eve, December 31st in the 2024 winter show . . .

smouldering on air at the very tip of the debutante’s cigarette holder . . . jazz club downtown somewhere in Manhattan and mother not to know . . . supposed to be at a ball at the Plaza but that boring . . . better here and a band striking up that’s fun to hear . . . date met under the clock at the Biltmore and found on a bench in Central Park looking so handsome in his uniform . . . oops . . . oh no . . . here comes great uncle with his boyfriend and they will surely tell . . . cigarette out and its off to the ladies room to try to hide . . .

My annual winter series post for New Year’s Eve with a few new images added including these too. See it all at the link if you like-

https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahbguestperry/p/theatrical-set-designs-and-other-cfc?r=kbn1g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Theatrical Set Designs and other Fripperies for December 30th in the 2024 winter show . . .

Smelling of frangipani in the tropical air as the pirate king takes his seat in the Port Royal theatre and the play begins . . . time for joy and that until the spies say the treasure fleet has sailed . . . lots of work then and that around the clock what with figuring out how many people to make walk the plank . . . but pretty ladies on stage singing and dancing and dinner after . . .

my winter series post for today published to my Substack at the link and free to see. Please scroll down to the end to see everything.

Hand-painted mallard duck reverse crystal cufflinks. Yellow gold. Shreve Crump and Low. Taken from their website.

https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahbguestperry/p/theatrical-set-designs-and-other-d77?r=kbn1g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Theatrical Set Designs and other Fripperies. December 29th issue in the 2024 winter show . . .

prancing on air on the smell of freshly baked sugar cookies wafting through the house as before the altar of the lady chapel of the old church downtown something starts to shimmer . . . where the creche always goes but the shimmering up over the baby doll’s head growing and sailing up through the ceiling and sideways into the garden as a trumpeter begins . . . a message from the angels it must be . . . only a few allowed in the church . . . the Holy Family needing to be outside for all to see . . .

my winter series post for today over on my Substack at the link if you’d like to see. Thanks!

Hobbit house in the Shire from Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Fantasy art. Image ca. 2013. Artist not known. via pinterest.com.

Drawings of interiors by English artist John Wykeham Archer. Living from 1808 to 1864, he studied engraving under John Scott. Archer mostly drew the outside of buildings and places but I like these better. Collections of the British Museum, London.

Staircase by Inigo Jones in Ashburnham House, Little Dean’s Yard, Westminster; a view of a grand and ornate staircase, a young woman in a red skirt and dark top ascends the stairs, followed by a small black and white dog halfway up the first flight. 1849. English.
Drawing, watercolor over graphite. John Wykeham Archer, artist (1808-1864). Collections of the British Museum. Image © The Trustees of the British Museum. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1874-0314-11
Chapter House door, Cloisters, Westminster; beneath an ornate fan-vaulted ceiling is an open door set into the wall, seven people in white gowns and academic caps walk away from it along the cloistered passage towards the distant left. ca. 1850. English. Drawing, watercolor with bodycolor over graphite. John Wykeham Archer, artist (1808-1864). Collections of the British Museum. Image © The Trustees of the British Museum. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1874-0314-280
Hall and staircase of a house in Little Cloisters, Westminster Abbey; a hallway, with on the right a window with small stained glass features inset into the panes, and a view of an exterior wall with a ladder leaning against it, on the windowsill is a feather fan, and to the left of the image is a carpeted and wood-paneled staircase next to which stands a bust on a column. ca. 1842-1859. English. Drawing, watercolor with bodycolor over graphite. John Wykeham Archer, artist (1808-1864). Collections of the British Museum. Image © The Trustees of the British Museum. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1874-0314-294

Theatrical Set Designs and other Fripperies for December 28th in the 2024 winter show. . .

meandering on air out on the rings of Jupiter as she spins away as on Christmas Eve the little girl’s father goes shopping at the paper theatre pop up on his way home from work . . . no time to think about it . . . maybe that’s the good part . . . two shopping bags worth of possibilities instead of just one . . .

My winter series post for today on my Substack at the link and free to look at.

https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahbguestperry/p/theatrical-set-designs-and-other-82a?r=kbn1g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Ormolu encriers shaped like beehives. Amaze your business acquaintances when they visit your office. They’ll never guess that India ink lives inside.

Ormolu beehive model Encrier (ink well). Beehive central well with a hay stack cover and several bees on the surface, flanked by two baskets with covers laden with fruit, flowers and wheat sheaves. At the base of one of the baskets sits a bird leaning over a large basket with a container of sand in the shape of a large bunch of wheat tied with a rope and a bird perched on top as a cover. The rear of the encrier is composed of a group of garden implements which include a sickle, a spade, a trowel, a scythe, ring pliers and a pitch fork tied with an attractive bow and hung with garlands of flowers, masses of grapes, and wheat forming a support for a quill. The base is designed as naturalistic wood logs topped with rustic wood planks. An amusing mouse sits by the handle of the large front basket nibbling a piece of wheat. Gilt bronze with porcelain liners. 19th c. Empire. French. Maker not given. Image © 1stDibs.com, Inc. 2024. Fair use license. via https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/decorative-objects/desk-accessories/inkwells/gardeners-delight-antique-french-empire-gilt-bronze-beehive-model-encrier/id-f_32219442/
Freemasonry gilt bronze (ormolu) inkwell designed with a beehive shaped system decorated with bees on the top, on a base animated with flowers and vegetation. The basket-shaped receptacle is decorated with wheat sheaves and bees. This inkwell is embellished with two lidded cups, one with a stopper featuring an eagle. ca. 1824-1830. French. Ormolu (gilt bronze) with a porcelain ink cup. Maker not known. Image © Ouaiss Antiquites Paris 2024. Fair use license. via https://www.ouaissantiquites.com/en/objectdetails/859309/french-19th-century-gilt-bronze-inkwell/19678

The beehive with its worker bees is a Freemasonry symbol. Whether these inkwells are connected with Freemasonry, were made for one of their lodges, etc. it is not possible to learn as far as I know. But they probably were.

Theatrical Set Designs and other Fripperies. December 27th issue in the 2024 winter show . . .

meandering on the frozen air as somewhere far to the north of Greenland where polar bears rule and human beings shiver the Inuit little girls come out to play as a peep of sun appears . . . not much more and that not for months but a dolly house to build . . . tiny igloo and a mama doll with a huge hood for her twin babies with malamute puppies to sit and watch . . . umiak to ride in to the next village one day but not now. . . someone to dance with and maybe . . . time to be happy for now and that forever for memories never die.

my winter series post for today published over on my Substack if you’d like to see-

https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahbguestperry/p/theatrical-set-designs-and-other-3a2?r=kbn1g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

People straight out of the Middle Ages but painted in the 1860s and 1870s. History pictures by Swedish artist Johan Georg Otto von Rosen (Georg von Rosen). Living from 1843 to 1923, he studied art at the Swedish Royal Academy of Fine Arts.

Julmarknad/The Christmas Fair. 1872. Swedish. Watercolor. Georg von Rosen (1843-1923). Signed Gvon. Rosen. f. 1872. Collections of the National Museum Stockholm. Image source: Åsa Lundén/National Museum.Artwork in the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Christmas_Fair_(Georg_von_Rosen)_-_Nationalmuseum_-_24400.tif?page=1 though I found it here https://www.instagram.com/genadijm/p/DEB_dNxRwgD/?hl=en

Erik XIV, King of Sweden. 1871. Swedish. Oil on canvas. Georg von Rosen (1843-1923). Signed G. von Rosen f. 1871. Collections of and image credit the National Museum, Stockholm. Artwork in the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Erik_XIV,_King_of_Sweden_(Georg_von_Rosen)_-_Nationalmuseum_-_18157.tif?page=1
Vigsel i ett smedsgilleskapell på Vasatiden. 1865. Swedish. Oil on canvas. Georg von Rosen (1843-1923). Signed. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.artnet.com/artists/georg-von-rosen/vigsel-i-ett-smedsgilleskapell-p%C3%A5-vasatiden-6b3zjGHSxpmOHec_vv70Tg2

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Theatrical Set Designs and Other Fripperies for Christmas Eve in the year of Our Lord MMXXIV . . .

sparking on air on the smile of a duckling peeking out from under his mother’s wing as in the courtyard of the great art museum something sparkly is coming up . . . glass trees in every shade of green that Pantone knows about and that’s a lot . . . but wait. . . fairies too or maybe they are elves in holiday dress starting to dance as they emerge from under the boughs . . . wonderful . . . gone by suppertime perhaps but there now and maybe tomorrow.

my winter series post for today published on my Substack at the link.

https://open.substack.com/pub/sarahbguestperry/p/theatrical-set-designs-and-other-a48?r=kbn1g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true