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Travelling toilet set in gilded silver, Augsburg, 1756
Travelling toilet set, 1756, Augsburg. The German masters of the eighteenth century still remained leaders in the production of gilded silver
Alexandr Radayev
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I cannot help recalling that epic infographic of every dress worn to the ceremony by the winners of the Oscar for Best Actress since 1929
NB! · Faith · Art · Heritage · Ethnography
Statues often have teeth, of bone or stone, but when a three-hundred-year-old Christ from San Bartolo Cuautlalpan in Mexico was restored, real human teeth were found in it, complete with roots!!!
Statues often have teeth, of bone or stone, but when a three-hundred-year-old Christ from San Bartolo Cuautlalpan in Mexico was restored, real human teeth were found in it, complete with roots!!! A rather peculiar votive offering
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Don't Forget Your Little Drawers, It's Freezing Out There
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Eighteenth-century men's waistcoat with embroidered monkeys gathering fruit on the pocket
An eighteenth-century man's waistcoat, with monkeys gathering fruit embroidered on the pocket. And you talk of Gucci!
NB! · Aristocracy · Art · Mores
The sad and even chilling tomb of Alice, the 18-year-old wife of the English aristocrat Alexander Denton, with a swaddled infant at her feet: she died in childbirth
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Rubens's Second Wife Walks a Child on a Lead
Rubens's second wife walks a child on a lead. One can see at once what a good mother she is; I would trust her with my own children
Aristocracy · Mores · People · Humour
Scottish aristocrat Jean Johnston Buchan, 80, married a fourth time in 1732, to an 18-year-old
Jean Johnston Buchan claimed that she owed her longevity to changing husbands. In 1732 the 80-year-old Scottish aristocrat married for the fourth time, her husband being an 18-year-old youth
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It is not what you thought, but Odysseus deceiving the Cyclops
NB! · Architecture · Faith · Monarchies
Rose window of the west façade of St Vitus Cathedral in Prague Castle, built in the 19th century
The ten-metre rose window on the west façade of St Vitus Cathedral in Prague Castle, where the kings of Bohemia lie buried. This part of the principal cathedral of the Czech lands was built in the 19th century; the oldest part of the building dates from 1344
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French Combined Table of the Late 18th Century for Breakfast and Make-up
I have fallen in love with this French combination table of the late eighteenth century, for breakfast and for make-up. The side compartments, lined with silk, are for cosmetics; the upper part lifts off and becomes a bed table
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