Poster 'Page from a Polier album: Entertainments in a Harem' Size_Paper_L_475_700 The little bronze from the

The little bronze from the Musée National des Arts Asiatiques-Guimet belongs to this lot of pieces dating from the end of the Qhou Dynasty

famous bridges

Each piece in this collection of brass bibelots is designed and sculpted by Jonathan Adler and his team in Soho studio

Gauguin and Pont-Aven

Poster 'Page from a Polier album: Entertainments in a Harem' Size_Paper_L_475_700 The little bronze from theThis poster features a sheet from an album compiled by Colonel Antoine Louis de Polier (17411795), a French Swiss adventurer and collector resident in India in the middle of the 18th century. The front presents a harem scene with a group of women talking and smoking hookahs in the midst of maidservants, musicians and dancers. The structured background is inspired by the Persian art of gardens. The back bears a calligraphic "ghazal" or love poem.