[lace] wardrobe of the Prince of Ligne

2004-01-16 Thread Liduina
This morning, I saw in the local paper that wednesday, they sold by auction a part of the wardrobe of the Prince de Ligne in the Hôtel Drouot (Paris). The Prince de Ligne actualy lives in Beloeil (Belgium) not far from the place where I live so it woke my curiosity and after googling a bit I found

Re: [lace] wardrobe of the Prince of Ligne

2004-01-16 Thread Clay Blackwell
What no one else has mentioned so far, with regard to the wardrobe of the Prince of Ligne, is how tragic it is that the current holders of the collection are unable to maintain it and that it is being broken up and sent to the four corners of the world! It seems to me that some museums spend a