The Bird Lady's Dressing Table
This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a monthly challenge called "Freestyle On The Fifth". A different theme chosen by a member of the group each month, and the image is to be posted on the 5th of the month.
This month the theme, "bird" was chosen by Beverley (www.flickr.com/photos/137349496@N06/).
This is my first invitation to participate in "Freestyle On The Fifth", so I would just like to thank the FFF+ Group for allowing me to add my photos to the pool.
This final third entry was inspired by the "L'Air du Temps" Lalique perfume bottle which stands before the mirror. It was the very first collectible I ever bought with my own money at an auction house. I saw it sitting on a shelf beneath a spotlight and I just loved the elegant bird stopper. Nina Ricci's most famous perfume, "L'Air du Temps", created in France in 1948, means "Air of Time". French glass designer René Jules Lalique designed the iconic avian bottle stopper.
So the lady whose dressing table this is must love birds because she has a number of avian themed items sitting on it.
In addition to the Nina Ricci "L'Air du Temps" Lalique perfume bottle, she has a beautiful eighteen carat and seed pearl lovers swallow brooch from 1914. It comes in its original box. It must have been a gift to her from her sweetheart; perhaps a soldier from the trenches in Flanders Fields, given to her as a token of love and a reminder of him whilst she waited for him to come home. I wonder if he did?
The bird in the cage is obviously not real. It is a French Regency automaton clock from the 1820s. When wound, the bird shakes itself from side to side and serves as the minute hand on the clock as it works itself around the circumference of the cage. The hand that moves around the centre is the hour hand of the clock. The clock itself is made of brass, which was very fashionable in the Regency period. Considering its age, it keeps remarkably good time and loses only around a minute a day.
So here we have my "Bird Lady's Dressing Table" entry.
The Bird Lady's Dressing Table
This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a monthly challenge called "Freestyle On The Fifth". A different theme chosen by a member of the group each month, and the image is to be posted on the 5th of the month.
This month the theme, "bird" was chosen by Beverley (www.flickr.com/photos/137349496@N06/).
This is my first invitation to participate in "Freestyle On The Fifth", so I would just like to thank the FFF+ Group for allowing me to add my photos to the pool.
This final third entry was inspired by the "L'Air du Temps" Lalique perfume bottle which stands before the mirror. It was the very first collectible I ever bought with my own money at an auction house. I saw it sitting on a shelf beneath a spotlight and I just loved the elegant bird stopper. Nina Ricci's most famous perfume, "L'Air du Temps", created in France in 1948, means "Air of Time". French glass designer René Jules Lalique designed the iconic avian bottle stopper.
So the lady whose dressing table this is must love birds because she has a number of avian themed items sitting on it.
In addition to the Nina Ricci "L'Air du Temps" Lalique perfume bottle, she has a beautiful eighteen carat and seed pearl lovers swallow brooch from 1914. It comes in its original box. It must have been a gift to her from her sweetheart; perhaps a soldier from the trenches in Flanders Fields, given to her as a token of love and a reminder of him whilst she waited for him to come home. I wonder if he did?
The bird in the cage is obviously not real. It is a French Regency automaton clock from the 1820s. When wound, the bird shakes itself from side to side and serves as the minute hand on the clock as it works itself around the circumference of the cage. The hand that moves around the centre is the hour hand of the clock. The clock itself is made of brass, which was very fashionable in the Regency period. Considering its age, it keeps remarkably good time and loses only around a minute a day.
So here we have my "Bird Lady's Dressing Table" entry.