Photoalbum of a naval officer of the gunboat SMS Luchs, with 101 partly private …

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of a naval officer of the gunboat SMS Luchs, with 101 partly private photographs (22 with imprinted title), mounted on the album boards. Dimensions approx. 8.5 x 10.2 to 11.7 x 17 cm. 4°. 25 boards. Loaded Japanese. Lacquer album of the period, the covers painted, the front cover with 2 small inlaid bone carvings. (Spine only fragmentary preserved). The album documents the voyage of the gunboat to East Asia from the departure from Bremerhaven (July 1900) via Port-Said, the Suez Canal to Ceylon and via Singapore to Hong Kong, various facilities on board (engineer, the conamdant in the saloon, the commander's study), activities and events such as gun cleaning, birthday party on board, the band, visit of the vice-king, boat maneuvers on the Yang-tse-kiang, birthday party and Christmas party in the deck office. Christmas party in the deck officer's mess, breakfast after taking over the coal, stone carving merchants on board, German station in Taku, 37 photographs with views of Shanghai, 10 photographs of Chinese women and laced feet, Chinese tombstones and boundary stones etc..., mostly with hs. Inscription on the card. - Partly stained, some images somewhat faded. D

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Tapestry from Oudenaarde (Flanders), late 15th century, early 16th century, Technical characteristics : Wool and silk Dimensions: Height: 310cm; Width: 255cm decorated with cabbage leaves or aristoloches and ferocious beasts. Here three wolves face a boar in the center, top left a peregrine falcon above a squirrel, then halfway up on the right a deer wolf also known as a lynx crunching a rabbit, further up on the right a Phoenix, in the top center of the tapestry a Renaissance castle, and in the background mountains. Beautiful border decorated with flowers, leaves and fruit. A tapestry from the same series with a similar border is reproduced in Jacqueline Boccara's book "Ames de laine et de Soie", published by Éditions d'ART MONELLE HAYOT, page 67. This one is entitled "Feuille de choux au Taureau" and shows an Auroch and a Phoenix. Oudenaarde owes its fame to its "verdures", and this reputation has remained attached to the town, even if something else was also produced here. Oudenaarde's verdure tapestries were already being exported to Italy in 1538. The "verdure" cartoons, whose backgrounds were filled with large-leafed plants - probably acanthus leaves rather than cabbage leaves - and peopled with animals and birds of all kinds, were generally used in turn, depending on the availability of looms and fluctuating prices, in the centers of Enghien, Gramont and Oudenaarde, which were very close to each other. Very often, therefore, these tapestries were populated with animals, be they noble, fantastic or even legendary. This showed that fantastic fauna was to be found everywhere, even on the outskirts of people's homes. These tapestries must have been ideal for recounting stories of hunting, counts and legends during the evenings. In times when the real and the fabulous were readily confused, certain animals had a special place in the popular imagination. The lynx was one such animal, both real and fabulous. Our elders knew, from their encounters in the countryside, an animal similar in every way to the one we call lynx today, which they called the loup-cervier (hawk-wolf). These naturalists of another era, influenced by mythology, alchemists and poets, claimed that the lynx or lynx was a fabulous but very real animal, on a par with dragons, chimeras or centaurs. They had proof: When a lynx has peed, its urine freezes. It forms a glistening stone the length of its little finger, which it covers with earth. This gem, called "Lapis lyncis", was found in abundance in the Caen region of Normandy. Skeptics claim they are yellow amber or succinic stones, but it would appear that these stones are actually belemnites, fossilized cephalopods shaped like rifle bullets. Lynchée, the argonaut, is the eponym of the lynx, for like him, he had such subtle discernment that he could see into the underworld. Is it not said that a prince has the eyes of a lynx, when he is so penetrating in affairs, and has such good spies, that he discovers all the secrets of his enemies and everything that goes on in his states? In the 18th century, the question was still being asked by the scientific community. Moderns believe he's fabulous, since he can see through walls. But a man named Jonston claimed he was real, as he was none other than the loup-cervier. Saliger even specifies that he is the male of the species. We are lynxes to our fellows and moles to ourselves. It's the same story as the mote and the beam in the eye: we see the slightest flaws in others, but we don't want to see our own imperfections. Gaston Phébus says that "some call it wolf-hounds, others catz-lous". He adds that "the loup-cervier differs from the chat forestier by its size and by the spots that adorn its coat" and ventures that "the hair that forms tufts at the tips of the ears is used to sense the direction of the wind". In 15th-century south-western France, where Gaston Comte de Foix had his hunting grounds, forest cats, "felis silvestri "s, and lynxes were still numerous. A large cat, weighing over 10 kg, can resemble a young lynx, so it was not uncommon for the two animals to be confused. Since the Middle Ages, the lynx has gradually disappeared from our territory. Eliminated from Ile de France in the 16th century, it took refuge in mountainous areas. In the Hautes-Alpes region, it remained common until 1870. The last lynx in the French Alps was seen watching marmots in 1913 at the foot of the Alps.

Starting price 1200 EUR

André Ferrand

Estim. 50 - 100 EUR

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Estim. 5 000 - 6 000 EUR

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