Erté-- A Lasting Tradition and One-of-a-Kind Artist

The artist known as Erté (pronounced "Air-Tay") was born in 1892 in St. Petersburg, Russia, to Russia's elite and given the name of Romain Petrovich de Tirtoff. Actually, that was the same year The Nutcracker ballet premiered in St. Petersburg. His self-invented name, the phonetic mix of his initials R and also T, would certainly end up being as

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Neolithic Chinese Jade Carvings

Jade-- The Rock of HeavenLuminescent environment-friendly jadeite might best stand for the current concept of jade, yet jadeite was not carved in China until after the late 1700s when it was shipped there from Myanmar (top Burma). In truth, jade has many faces. Although jade is prized throughout the world, it is revered in China and references to i

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