Decorative Plate, D'Arceau Limoges, François Ganeau, Les Femmes du Siècle, Sophie La Féminité Retrouvée 1947, France, Vintage 1978 vegetable A shepherd girl in a

A shepherd girl in a ruffled pink gown

and the owl fills it with dignity

" this oval trinket box is carved in the scrimshaw tradition — the highly detailed engraving technique originally practiced by whalers on bone and ivory

A charming pair for the mantel or a child's Christmas display

This small die-cut embossed Easter card is the kind of thing that got tucked into a child's Easter basket and treasured rather than discarded

Decorative Plate, D'Arceau Limoges, François Ganeau, Les Femmes du Siècle, Sophie La Féminité Retrouvée 1947, France, Vintage 1978 vegetable A shepherd girl in aParis, 1947. Dior has just unveiled the New Look nipped waist, full skirt, gloves and Sophie has rediscovered her femininity after years of wartime austerity. Commissioned by the Parisian Fashion Chamber and produced in Limoges, this series of 12 plates traces a century of French womanhood through the eyes of artist Franois Ganeau painter, sculptor, and designer of the Vendme typeface. This plate Sophie La Fminit Retrouve captures the postwar return