Ornamented Collection (page 3)

Paris fashion plate 1878
Silk Christmas and New Years party dresses. Hair arranged high, the front parted and waved, or the ends curved forward in crescent shape on the forehead, chignon on the nape of the neck. Date: 1878

Greek wearing tunic
Man wearing an ornamented tunic. Date: Ancient Greece

Court Dress
English court dress stills employs the use of hoops to hold out the elaborately ornamented skirts even though they had fallen out of use for fashionable dress. Date: 1800

Costume / Women / 1826
Front & back views of dress with gigot sleeves, skirt ornamented with tucks, plus a canezou-pelerine & belt. Hat trimmed profusely with wheat ears, flowers & bows. Date: circa 1826

Chippendale Dress Table
An ornamented dressing table by Thomas Chippendale (died 1779) Date: circa 1750

Paris, France - Place du Chatelet. Date: 1830

William Churchs steam road carriage, 1835
William Churchs highly ornamented steam road carriage, which ran between London and Birmingham, and was capable of holding 50 people. Date: 1835

Wasatchites tridentinus, ammonoid
An extinct, marine fossil invertebrate with a heavily ribbed, coiled shell from the class Cephalopoda belonging in the phylum Mollusca (molluscs). Photographed by Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta

Murex pecten, Venus comb
A pair of Venus combs (Murex pecten). This heavily ornamented gastropod has a row of spines making it look like a comb. They can be found throughout the Indo-Pacific

State Coach
Side view of the magnificent Golden State coach used for royal coronations decorated with paintings by Cipriani including the royal arms on the upper back panel, ornamented with the Order of St

Tower of Five Orders
The Tower of Five Orders, Oxford, England, ornamented with the five Classical architecture orders : Doric, Tuscan, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite. Date: early 17th century

Alexander Cruden
ALEXANDER CRUDEN Churchman, compiler of the classic Bible Concordance : ornamented with an open Bible, crown of thorns, hammer and nails etc. Date: 1701 - 1770

Turkish woman brought coffee
A woman in oriental robes sits smoking a pipe with a very long stem while her servant brings her coffee. There are richly ornamented carpets on the floor. 1756

Greek Costume / Louvre
ANCIENT GREECE: Nymphs of the cortege of Aphrodite (Venus) wearing sheer & ornamented chitons through which their bodies are clearly visible. Date: B.C

GERMAN NOBLES 1570-88
Two German noblemen wear small ruffs, doublets, cut-fingered pumps, hose or breeches ornamented with embroidery or ribbon bows, a sleeveless jerkin & short cloak. Date: 1570 - 1588

Ball Dress & Cloak
A young lady arrives at the ball wearing a beautiful, white, short cloak or cape ornamented in gold & red with a paisley pattern. Date: circa 1860

Costume / Women Circa 1780
Large mob cap with a blue ribbon, two examples of caraco jackets, a skirt ornamented at the hem with a rouleau (puffed out ornamentation). Date: circa 1780

Evening Mantle 1912
A blue satin evening mantle open to the waist & ornamented with black bows & possibly Irish lace. She wears tiara & an ostrich feather plume in her hair. N.B jade necklace. Date: 1912

Promenade Dress 1899
Open jacket bodice, irregular shaped revers, high necked blouse, gored skirt trimmed with concentric narrow bands, puff at top of sleeves, profusely ornamented straw hat Date: 1899

Illuminating 15c & 16c
Examples of fifteenth and sixteenth century illuminating. Ornaments and large initials, ornamented with raspberries, daisies, and a butterfly

English Illuminating 12c & 13c
Initials by English illuminators, 12th and 13th century

Illuminating 13c
Examples of thirteenth century illuminating

The Holy Carpet
The start of the great annual Mohammedan pilgrimage with the holy carpet to the sacred Kaaba shrine in Mecca. The carpet is said to be the actual one on which the Prophet Mohammed prayed and is 1

The Holy Carpet carried to Mecca
The start of the great annual Mohammedan pilgrimage with the holy carpet to the sacred Kaaba shrine in Mecca. The carpet is said to be the actual one on which the Prophet Mohammed prayed and is 1

Bulgarian Church - Constantinople
The Bulgarian St Stephen Church (Turkish: Sveti Stefan Kilisesi), also known as the Bulgarian Iron Church, is a Bulgarian Orthodox church in Istanbul, Turkey, famous for being made of cast iron

Konya, Turkey - The Ince Minaret Medrese Museum
Konya (also known as Koniah, Konieh, Konia, Qunia and Iconium) in Turkey. The Ince Minaret Medrese (" The Medrese with the fine Minaret )

Fashions for February, 1844
Engraving of two women modelling The Illustrated London News idea of Fashion for February 1844. The full caption reads as follows: No.1

Costume Photo 1889
Square corsage that looks like a halterneck, sleeves & chest infilled with an open net, skirt ornamented with jet tassels. White ostrich plume fan, velvet ribbon choker

Frilly Mantle 1899
Black mantle with high fan shaped collar ornamented with passementerie & with cascades & flounces of accordian pleated chiffon which forms a ruffle down the front

Blue & Lace Dress 1899
Blue print dress: high collar with 3 narrow black rows of ribbon round the throat & ornamented with white lace at the neckline, shoulders & skirt

Lady Charles Beresford
Bodice with en coeur or sweetheart neckline, shoulder straps & transparent short sleeves - the whole heavily ornamented with beadwork. N.B choker & long string of pearls

MYRAs MODELS 1875
Evening dresses ornamented with roses & lace, short sleeves, long waists (one ending in a point), double skirts trained & tied back, over-skirts with apron fronts

WOMEN & GIRL 1859-60
Vertical trimming is fashionable. The brown dress has a jacket body with long basques at the back & ornamented with black dots & a gathered trim

Ukraine Peasants
A peasant couple from the Ukraine : he makes music, she makes hay with no shoes on but a prettily ornamented hat

Balloon, Paris 1804
Napoleons wedding to Josephine is celebrated by a highly ornamented balloon

Sequin Restaurant Gown
A decollete restaurant gown profusely ornamented with sequins, with short puffed sleeves, Swiss belt, floral corsage & bell shaped trained skirt. N.B hat

Foresters Certificate
Membership certificate of the Ancient Order of Foresters Friendly Society, ornamented with idyllic scenes and pictures of people being kind. Date: early 20th century

Toque Nouvelle
A new TOQUE ornamented with ribbons and wooden pearls

Ornamental float drawn at festivals
Ornamented float drawn at festivals

Empire Line Revival 1910
Directoire / Empire revival gown: high waist, draped fur- trimmed corsage, tasseled girdle, finely gathered skirt ornamented at the hem with Roman style embroidery

Garden Party Frocks 1910
Dresses suitable for a garden party: a pretty concoction of floral pastel shades ornamented with embroidery & artificial roses worn with large hats & toques

Pearl Trimmed Dress 1910
Empire revival gown in white silk voile with a high waist, square corsage, cap sleeves & a narrow trained skirt is profusely ornamented with pearls & beads

Cross with Pansies
ornamented with pansies

Full Dress 1823
Made from a poppy-colour India muslin with a wadded hem. Ornamented with sprigs of gold & gold lace. Worn with a blond lace scarf, French trimmed gloves & white satin shoes

Costume / Feather Fan / 1900
Gown with a sac bodice composed of a large weave net, high all round collar with ruff, floral relief trim & an accordian pleated skirt ornamented with beaded waves

Frenchwoman 1790
The Revolution brings in a revolution in womens fashions - yet this simple dress is tasteful, and ornamented with ruff and sash

Frenchwoman 1590S - 2
Something like a farthingale marks the style of this sober but none the less ornamented gown, raised to reveal a much more flamboyant underskirt; note the raised ruff

Quilted Red Dress 1868
Green & white polonaise dress with 3 skirts & ornamented with rouleaux, flounces & bows. Red quilted dress with polonaise & double skirt. Girl wears a black mantle with cape

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