OBJECTS Femme fatale Anna Boudová Suchardová (1870–1940) Harpies bowl, after 1900 Earthenware, blue lead glaze, patinated; height 14 cm, diam. 34 cm Horrifying female apparitions were not just a period projection of male anguish and frustration. They entered decorative work like worlds of dreams and fantasy, into which the disconcerting images and insecurities of the seemingly successful and prosperous fin de siècle period were surreptitiously projected. fin de siècle.