Translucent Collection

Shell Fountain / Costume
Tunic dress by Paquin: draped tango skirt with front split & train, translucent flared tunic & pearl adorned corsage, toque / turban with feather trim

Beryl
A cut heliodor beryl stone of 135.93 carats. Beryl comprises of beryllium aluminum silicate

An operation screened live in a medical lecture
An invention by Mr Herbert A. Silver enabling medical students to watch surgery from the lecture theatre. A circle of electric lamps is suspended over the operating table while the image is projected

The Duchess of Norfolk
A portrait painting of The Duchess of Norfolk, most likely Gwendolen Mary Fitzalan-Howard, 1877-1945, the eldest child of Marmaduke Constable-Maxwell

Pink and Black
A watercolour painting portraying a woman, elegantly stood in a pose, wearing a translucent dress. Date: 1917

Alma Rubens
Actress Alma Rubens (1897-1931) appearing as Lady Hermione in the film Gerald Cranston's Lady'. Date: 1924

Marshall & Snelgrove gown: loose fitting, high waisted ankle length gown in a bronze fabric, round neckline, Medici style collar, translucent sleeves & reverse cuffs. Date: 1915

Comic postcard, Woman on the beach. Everybodys enjoying the beautiful sunsets down here! Date: 20th century

Woman at racetrack in dress with striped pekine taffeta tunic. Robe a tunique de taffetas pekine. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil) etching after an illustration by H

Woman with red parasol 1915
Japanese parasol, broad brimmed hat & a dress by Jessie Porter reminiscent of the 1830s - a gathered skirt with scallop hem, translucent sleeves & a green coatee. Date: 1915

Afternoon Frock 1914
Redfern design: pleated skirt like a fluted column, short flared tunic & translucent wrap over blouse / jacket, striped rosette & sash, helmet style hat with chin strap. Date: 1914

Translucent x-ray skirt 1913
Women caused a sensation by wearing a translucent x-ray skirt, Paris-made striped skirt was displayed on Broadway at Luna, Coney Island by a Bath Beach Girl

AMALFI BY WORTH 1922
Dress by Worth: barrel-line dress with V -neck & ruffle fall collar, translucent over- sleeves with ruffle detail, broad sash & bow tied across the hips & a broad brimmed hat

Lampshade Tunic 1914
Fashion house model in a V - neck gown with a lampshade tunic held out with wire, trimmed with fur & ornamented with floral embroidery & a tubular under-skirt

Frilly Pink Frock 1906
A fashionable Parisian in a pink gown with a translucent yoke & floral corsage & a flowing skirt, fitted at the hips & cascading to a pleated flounce with embroidered roses

Vamp Fashions 1914
Vamp & Victem: seductively clinging gown with low back, translucent sleeves & tasselled tail in an exotic patterned fabric; soft beret style hat & high heel court shoes. Date: 1914

Hallmarked silver brooch - flag of Russia
Hall marked silver and finest translucent enamel brooch with the Imperial Russian flag, on its original presentation card. Commemorative Ware

Girl in traditional costume, Egypt
Girl in traditional costume, including a translucent white blouse and a necklace, Egypt. Date: circa 1870

Veiled Turkish woman. Date: circa 1870

Oriental Egyptain Beauty wearing a Dragonfly Wing skirt
Oriental Egyptian Beauty wearing a Dragonfly Wing skirt, a very popular motif of the period in fashion and jewellery. The terminology was Plique-a-jour (French for " letting in daylight" )

Copal
Stalactite of New Zealand copal locally known as kauri gum. Copal is the mid-stage between resin and amber. Figure 8 from Amber The Natural Time Capsule

Springtail in amber
Springtail, Collembola: Entomobryidae trapped in Dominican amber. The insects spring has been preserved in a folded position under its body

Insect in amber
An Eocene centipede trapped in Baltic amber about 35-40 million years old. Amber is a natural, translucent fossil resin

Talc

A large cut citrine
Citrine is the yellow and orange variety of quartz (silicon dioxide). Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Klimt Dress Circa 1914
Artistic & exotic looking Klimt inspired dress with a translucent upper bodice, embroidered split tunic with train & fringed tango skirt worn with a feather headdress

Tunic Dress / Doucet 1914
Ornate yellow tunic dress: tango skirt with front split & train in a luxuriantly patterned fabric, translucent tunic with feathery trim drawn in with a tasseled girdle

Cheruit Evening Robe
Robe by Cheruit: heavily ornamented corsage & a double skirt, the column silhouette broken by the translucent polonaise style tunic. Bandeau & feather headdress

Fur-Trimed Shawl 1913
A shawl in a translucent fabric bordered with fur & with a fur-trimmed high stand collar with two pointed capes terminating in a tassel. A fur toque completes the ensemble

Worth Evening Dress 1913
Worth dress in an exotic shade of orange: high-waisted, decorative belt & shoulder straps, puffed & draped skirt with a train, translucent black sleeves

Casino Robe 1914
Tunic dress with draped tango skirt, translucent flared & pleated tunic with fur trim, beaded corsage en ceour, shoes with cross-over ribbons & a feather & pearl headdress

Tunic Dress 1912
Column-like Directoire or Empire line revival: corsage of translucent fabric with a deep V back, broad cummerbund & a narrow trained skirt with gathered tunic

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