Sunday, January 16, 2005

Unicorn?  What unicorn?

  So, I'm in New York this week and my first stop was the Cloisters.  If you are not familiar with the Cloisters, it is a decent collection of medieval items.  The most famous of which is the collection of the Unicorn Tapestries.  Well, when I got there, my attention was focused squarely on the wrought iron stuff on display.  A humorous incident happend in the tapestry room.  I was so intently studying and photographing some iron items by a fireplace that one of the guards jokingly asked me if I had noticed the tapestries on the wall...



  Well, there were a lot of iron work items in the museum.  Unfortunately, a large number of them had no description or a very minimal description.  I particularly liked the metal folding chair and the brazier.  Lots of candlelabras as well.  I think I may do some candlelabras after the chest.  They should be much quicker than the chest.

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