Recently acquired by @antiquaries.bsky.social, a design for a wall monument #c18 #c18th #18thc
Yesterday at Melford Hall. Fine library interior by Thomas Hopper.
“A Jacobite By Name?”: Jacobitism in the Life & Work of Robert Burns
5 July, Ellisland – £4
Patrick Jamieson explores how ideas of identity, naming & political memory shaped Burns’s engagement with Jacobitism in his life & writing
#C18 #romanticism #poetry
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From the Archive – Essay: Sericulture and Citrus Fruits – 18th Century Naturalists in the Mediterranean Region and Swedish Gardens. www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/se...
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A sugar bowl made at the Mennecy factory circa 1760. A copy of sugar bowls (sucriers de monsieur-le-premier) made at Sèvres, with a bowl attached to an oval stand with a lid with flower knop. Brighter colors than you normally see on Mennecy flower decoration, but I think it's of the period.
Large (36 cm in diameter) delftware dish (probably Lambeth, c1720-40), at Bonhams, London (est. £25,000-30,000) #c18 #c18th #18thc
