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.