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Various other mythological agents, recipes and gewgaws are crafted as desired.

In 2017, she arranged to have a ceremonial resin “orb,” apparently a gewgaw given to donors and other honorees that she designed, delivered to Epstein.

It was like a cupboard, crowded with old gewgaws and dust-coated knickknacks — the critic’s mind! — and, fool that I am, I couldn’t squeeze Katz into it.

Batman and Superman gewgaws are on view to underscore that point.

Sotheby’s first positioned itself as a retailer in the late 1990s, when the venerable auction house appointed Dubin, then head of its fashion department, to organize a sale of vintage fashions and gewgaws.