fancy-piece

The dresses were for the most part quite conservative -- not at all what she would have expected a fancy-piece to wear.

Daring Deception Hiatt, Brenda 1993

It is unnecessary to add that this is a pure fancy-piece, the imitations being unexpected and capricious, and never for the sake of completing a pattern or form.

The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations 1874

"Yes," said Belinda, "and how much more interesting this picture is to us, from our knowing that it is not a fancy-piece; that the happiness is real, not imaginary: that this is the natural expression of affection in the countenance of the mother; and that these children, who crowd round her, are what they seem to be -- the pride and pleasure of her life!"

Tales and Novels — Volume 03 Maria Edgeworth 1808

'Yes,' said Belinda, 'and how much more interesting this picture is to us, from our knowing that it is not a fancy-piece; that the happiness is real, not imaginary: that this is the natural expression of affection in the countenance of the mother; and that these children, who crowd round her, are what they seem to be – the pride and pleasure of her life!'

Belinda 1801

My dear Alexander, you don't want to hear of every spiteful little fancy-piece who has a tiff with his keeper. "

The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972