garnitures

With the aid of dealers, auctioneers, and other slightly dubious middle-men, the Prince Regent spent a lifetime picking off these limping antelopes at the edge of the luxury herd: exceedingly rare Sèvres models with royal (usually French) provenance; dessert services, loopy garnitures, wacky covered vases, and intricately perforated jars for pot-pourri, and thousands of other vessels that were disbursed as a direct result of the French Revolution.

Sèvres 2009

Paintings and tapestries create context while reinforcing the messages of the exhibited garnitures so that, good as many of these portraits are, we begin to read them mainly for clues to the function and meaning of armor.

Armor as Wearable Sculpture 2009

Italian and German armorers produced both subtly decorated but functional-seeming garnitures and extravagant show pieces, contrasting high and low relief, delicate incising, gilding, and inlaying, with smoothly modulated steel, originally blackened for drama, as we learn from the portraits.

Armor as Wearable Sculpture 2009

I took the metro the other day on line 7 and nearly slipped on a greasy floor due to a mixure of tomato sauce, and other garnitures… People we eat greasy and smelly food and dripping them on the floor in public places should be sanctionned and deported!

what not to eat 2005

“No, Prince, there will be but one on the table, and the surplus I need for my epagnole, my blonds, garnitures, etc.”

The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson. 2004

Ce bouillon ou mitonnage sert à faire cuire tout ce qui se met sur les potages, comme volailles, gibier, grosse viande, et toutes les garnitures ou légumes, excepté les choux, radix, gros navets et quelques autres légumes dont on fait le potage à part.

Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

Ce bouillon ou mitonnage sert à faire cuire tout ce qui se met sur les potages, comme volailles, gibier, grosse viande, et toutes les garnitures ou légumes, excepté les choux, radix, gros navets et quelques autres légumes dont on fait le potage à part.

Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

A pleasant taste in art the garnitures of this establishment suggest!

The Beetle Richard Marsh

For the garnitures (which must be entirely of bright steel), two rings, a handsome tassel for one end, and a deep fringe for the other.

The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, etc. Unknown

Sky-rockets exhibiting rich hues of purple, red, and green ascended through the air; and when reaching the highest point of their blazing paths, they discharged beautiful garnitures of floating stars, sparks, crackers, serpents, gold and silver rain.

By Water to the Columbian Exposition Johanna S. Wisthaler