Rapier with sword belt. The rapier’s enamelled gold hilt has an animal’s head as a pommel and a dragon as a crossguard. The blade is signed Peter Munich. The belt’s plate features snakes and mollusc masks. Belonged to the chosen prince. Maybe was made for his wedding in 1634. [2681x3005]
"All Is Vanity" by the American illustrator Charles Allan Gilbert, made in 1892 CE. The drawing employs a double image (or visual pun) in which the scene of a woman admiring herself in a mirror of her vanity table, when viewed from a distance, appears to be a human skull [1600x2438]