Saturday, April 3, 2010

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss



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The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who “burned like a comet” in nineteenth-century Paris and Vienna society. Yet by the end of World War II, almost the only thing remaining of their vast empire was a collection of 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox.

The renowned ceramicist Edmund de Waal became the fifth generation to inherit this small and exquisite collection of netsuke. Ent... More >>

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

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