Antique silver tray

It's a shame they're up for only a few weeks.
The lavishly decorated windows are animated and represent four sensory pleasures in old-fashioned settings: a music room in Vienna (sound); a dinner in a New York mansion (taste); a Parisian patisserie (aroma); and a scene of children playing in the snow (feel).
They were created by Spaeth Design, which also has done work for Saks Fifth Avenue and Macy's.
The folks there are very excited the displays are going to be seen again because they put in hundreds of hours of work creating them, Zimmerman says.
Zimmerman hopes the display which will be situated near the show entrance, amid lampposts and antique automobiles will bring back childhood memories for people who grew up in Charlotte.
As a kid, I remember going to see the displays at Belk and Ivey's when they had stores uptown. It was a big deal. But we really don't have anything like that here anymore.
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'English visitors on a Grand Tour to Italy in the Eighteenth Century marveled at the renowned Hellenistic figures in Florence on which these works are based, and then sought out lasting impressions of their own,' he added. 'Now, visitors to the Getty will also have the opportunity to appreciate the superlative artistic and technical skill of these bronzes versions. They will be crown jewels in our neoclassical sculpture galleries.'
For centuries, artists, patrons and collectors have been fascinated by the Graeco-Roman artistic tradition. As part of a classical education they would visit Italy to perfect their knowledge of classical culture and literature, where they would also have the opportunity to study architecture, sculpture and painting, and collect antiquities. This reverence for antique culture predominated the Eighteenth Century, and sculptural replicas typically small scale and transportable of famous sculptures from classical antiquity were frequently brought home, particularly to England, by Grand Tourists returning from Southern Europe.
In 1722, George Parker, later the second earl of Macclesfield, commissioned Pietro Cipriani, one of the most gifted bronze sculptors of his generation in Florence, to make full-scale casts of two of the most famous Hellenistic sculptures for display at his family's seat, Shirburn Castle in Oxfordshire, England.

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