Tuesday 20 April 2010

Je regrette



An early 18th century walnut dressing table mirror with shaped cross grain moulded border and gilded leaf work edging above a stepped shaped base of three short and one long drawer; on ball feet


Should not have let you go. If only you had come up after the inlaid table you were meant to sit upon. Then it would have been a fait accompli instead of this nagging regret.



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Now playing: John Waite - Missing You

6 comments:

Blue said...

The story of our lives!

The Down East Dilettante said...

It is lovely. And how often I've done the same thing at auction.

As I always tell my customers, I never regret what I buy as much as I do what I don't buy....sigh...

La Petite Gallery said...

My grandmother had one very close to that one. Love it.. Yvonne

Hollywood forever, Kevin said...

Be strong, no regrets, although, the piece is really beautiful, I mean cheap and shoddy, oh well, it's hopeless I would feel the same way.

katiedid said...

I see what you mean....sigh.

columnist said...

You have to be fatalistic about these things, although I still remember in great detail the things that I missed at auction, and still express my regret that I did. So I'm not being any help here at all, am I?