Lipsticks 200 Years Ago.
An added interest to the. eighty-eight rare glass pictures recently shown at a London gallery is the fact that a laige number of them came from Craigweil House, Bognor Regis, states an exchange. Sir Arthur du Crois is one of the best-known collectors, and the o-eniS of his collection were in the Apartments occupied by the King and Queen last year. One of _ the most curious a painting by a Chinese aj’tist on a mirror, of Louis XIV., of France, and his Queen, hung in the King’s bedroom. Among the Chinese paintings on "lass, which were executed from back to front, with the detail painted in before the general outline, in the Queen’s apartments was one that amused her very much—of a Chinese voumr lady at her toilet. Although the date °of this picture is about 1730, the young lady is wielding a lipstick.
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1930, Page 14
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148Lipsticks 200 Years Ago. Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1930, Page 14
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