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bric a brack @ the shed second hand furniture cape town

synonyms:ornaments, knick-nacks, trinkets, bibelots, baubles,
gewgaws, cu
rios, gimcracks

bric-a-brac
ˈbrɪkəbrak/
noun
  1. miscellaneous objects and ornaments of little value.
    "then came donations of bric-a-brac"
    synonyms:ornaments, knick-knacks, trinkets, bibelots, baubles, gewgaws, trumpery,curios, gimcracks

Bric-à-brac or bric-a-brac (origin French)
First used in the Victorian era, refers to lesser objets d'art forming collections of curios, such as elaborately decorated teacups and small vases, compositions of feathers or wax flowers under glass domes, decorated eggshells, porcelain figurines, painted miniatures or photographs in stand-up frames, and so on.

In middle-class homes bric-à-brac was used as ornament on mantelpieces, cluttered tables, and shelves, or was displayed in curio cabinets: sometimes these cabinets have glass doors to display the items within while protecting them from dust. "Bric-à-brac" nowadays refers to a selection of items of modest value, often sold in street markets.

Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr., in The Decoration of Houses (1897), distinguished three gradations of quality in such "household ornaments": bric-à-brac, bibelots (trinkets) and objets d'art.
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