Manches de Parapluies (Umbrella Handles)

This engraved plate from Gazette du Bon Ton illustrates decorative umbrella handles in the Art Deco style. Six figures—rendered as anthropomorphic heads and busts emerging from ornamental shafts—display the era's fashionable parasol accessories. The engraving technique and fashion-plate format descend from eighteenth-century satirical traditions, though here applied to commercial rather than political ends.