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Lose track of time as you wander around the collection with treasures at every turn. With thousands of objects from silver and metals, fashion and textiles, furniture, ceramics, sculpture and paintings to capture your imagination.
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Sappho, Ancient Greek writer of lyric poetry, 1848
This stylishly elegant silver statue by James Pradier presents the poetess as a brooding lover.
EMPRESS EUGÉNIE’S BODICE
French purple velvet silk and lace bodice worn by Napoleon III's wife in the 1860s.
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