Among the lots with a Palm Beach provenance, which Gagen describes as having a lighter feeling, " with an emphasis on painted furniture and fruitwoods that matched the environment " of the island and Magowan's Bermudian-style house, is a group of George II-style carved limewood wall carvings that are favorites of Gagen's.
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Brown incorporated many unique features into the house, from four French marble fireplace mantles to antique French fruitwood doors that enclose the built-in home entertainment equipment and television set; Rococo paneling in the formal dining room with fireplace; elegant French door windows; slate and red Spanish tile floors; fountains in many of the rooms and a working faience stove.
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These include a 14th-century fragment of a headjoint excavated in Esslingen, Germany ( " Esslingen fragment " ); a birch instrument dated to the second half of the 14th century unearthed in Tartu, Estonia ( " Tartu recorder " ); and a fruitwood instrument dated to the 15th century, found in Elblg, Poland ( " Elblg recorder " ).
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Other works in the show include a red japanned secretary bookcase, circa 1690, with a spectacular silver gilt carved crest in the Baroque style; a carved and gilded center table with unusual double-curved stretchers from about 1710; a mahogany console from about 1745 with carved lion masks; and a pair of neoClassical demilune tables with intricate fruitwood marquetry designs from about 1775.
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The "'bench "'is a glassblower's workstation, and has a place for the glassblower to sit, a place for the handheld tools, and two rails that the pipe or punty rides on while the blower works with the piece . "'Blocks "'are ladle-like tools made from water-soaked fruitwood, and are used similarly to the marver to shape and cool a piece in the early steps of creation . "'Jacks "'are tools shaped somewhat like large tweezers with two blades, which are used for forming shape later in the creation of a piece . "'Paddles "'are flat pieces of wood or graphite used for creating flat spots such as a bottom . "'Tweezers "'are used to pick out details or to pull on the glass.
