In the Peabody Hotel lobby, on the Third Street side several shop windows are literally packed with antiques, ivory, jade, satsuma porcelain and other beautiful items in the Samuel Nathan Galleries. The ivory sculputure above is very large and there is a lady beside him that is the same size. The intricate details on these are fascinating. It's the kind of object you could look at for years and from time to time see something you had never noticed before. The shop has a collection of netsuke, miniature Japanese sculptures carved out of various materials. They also have an erotic collection of netsuke that are, um, quite graphic indeed (I should think the word "erotic" gives you fair warning on clicking on that link) and a bunch of unusual and pretty ivory, jade and silver snuff bottles. It's interesting to know this shop is here with this varied collection of antiques, rare items and Asian art.
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The details on that top piece are truly amazing indeed; such fabulous art treasures around you :)
Btw will you be participating in the 2nd Annual O Foods for Ovarian Cancer Awareness Contest at my blog and at Ms Adventures in Italy again this year? You have until Sept 28th to come up with a fab O recipe...and there are prizes including signed copies of Gina DePalma's Dolce Italiano and Mario Batali's Molto Italiano :D
If you can't participate, feel free to spread the word--there's a prize for that too!
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