Perles et parures : fantaisie
Perles et parures: fantaisie is a Paris book of 1850 published by G. De Gonet, with plates by Paul Gavarni and Raban and text by Joseph Méry, written for a fashionable French readership interested in jewelry and dress. Its hand-coloured lithographed plates show individual women in mid-century costume, each framed in an oval or arched border on a lace-patterned page, and a designer can take from them the period silhouettes of sleeves, bodices, bonnets and necklaces, along with the soft tinted palette.
