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Hubert de Givenchy (1927–2018) and Audrey Hepburn (1929–1993)

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The Seal of Paul II on One of His Documents

Two grooms in yellow breeches hold a white and a bay horse, a red macaw and a white cockatoo perch on branches, a spotted dog sits below, a castle in the distance.

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Two horses, two grooms, two parrots and a dog in a painting by Roelant Savery

Two splendidly maned horses, two dwarf grooms in lemon-yellow breeches, two parrots, a scarlet macaw and a Moluccan cockatoo, and one little dog. Thank you, Roelant Savery

Full-length portrait of a woman in a black dress with a white lace collar holding a black feather fan, in a gold frame.

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Feather fan in a portrait of a lady in a black dress resembles a ping-pong bat

A true lady of the ping-pong club. Just joking, it is a fan, of course

Three gilded boxes with engraved ornament on red velvet in a museum display case, with a tray and a number 10 label nearby.

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Travelling toilet set in gilded silver, Augsburg, 1756

Travelling toilet set, 1756, Augsburg. The German masters of the eighteenth century still remained leaders in the production of gilded silver

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I cannot help recalling that epic infographic of every dress worn to the ceremony by the winners of the Oscar for Best Actress since 1929

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Statues often have teeth, of bone or stone, but when a three-hundred-year-old Christ from San Bartolo Cuautlalpan in Mexico was restored, real human teeth were found in it, complete with roots!!!

Statues often have teeth, of bone or stone, but when a three-hundred-year-old Christ from San Bartolo Cuautlalpan in Mexico was restored, real human teeth were found in it, complete with roots!!! A rather peculiar votive offering

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Don't Forget Your Little Drawers, It's Freezing Out There

Silk embroidery on a waistcoat pocket: two monkeys with fruit among grasses, with a floral border above them.

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Eighteenth-century men's waistcoat with embroidered monkeys gathering fruit on the pocket

An eighteenth-century man's waistcoat, with monkeys gathering fruit embroidered on the pocket. And you talk of Gucci!

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The sad and even chilling tomb of Alice, the 18-year-old wife of the English aristocrat Alexander Denton, with a swaddled infant at her feet: she died in childbirth

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Rubens's Second Wife Walks a Child on a Lead

Rubens's second wife walks a child on a lead. One can see at once what a good mother she is; I would trust her with my own children