An Edwardian Beauty
This powder box featuring an Edwardian beauty comes from around 1910 to 1912. She is French and is made of gold with a lip of dark green enamel. The image of the unknown beauty was done by taking a lithograph of a photograph of the lady, painting it my hand, and cutting it to allow the colours of slivers of mother of pearl and iridescent butterfly wings to blend into the photograph. The image was then placed beneath a convex piece of glass to protect it. The protected image was then inserted into a 15 carat gold frame and backed by a bevelled mirror on the inside. She came with her original powder puff which features a little pink and white candy stripe ribbon. She is only one and a half inches in diameter.
(Private collection.)
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, “beauty” was chosen by Andrew (ajhaysom).
I wanted to choose this powder box because she represents beauty in several ways: the powder box itself is an item of beauty, the woman on the top is the epitome of an Edwardian Beauty from before the Great War, and the box’s purpose was to hold powder for an Edwardian lady to dust her face with, to aide her beauty.
An Edwardian Beauty
This powder box featuring an Edwardian beauty comes from around 1910 to 1912. She is French and is made of gold with a lip of dark green enamel. The image of the unknown beauty was done by taking a lithograph of a photograph of the lady, painting it my hand, and cutting it to allow the colours of slivers of mother of pearl and iridescent butterfly wings to blend into the photograph. The image was then placed beneath a convex piece of glass to protect it. The protected image was then inserted into a 15 carat gold frame and backed by a bevelled mirror on the inside. She came with her original powder puff which features a little pink and white candy stripe ribbon. She is only one and a half inches in diameter.
(Private collection.)
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, “beauty” was chosen by Andrew (ajhaysom).
I wanted to choose this powder box because she represents beauty in several ways: the powder box itself is an item of beauty, the woman on the top is the epitome of an Edwardian Beauty from before the Great War, and the box’s purpose was to hold powder for an Edwardian lady to dust her face with, to aide her beauty.