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Mr Bean in William Hogarth's "The Toilette" of 1743
Mr Bean in William Hogarth's "The Toilette" of 1743. The acknowledged master of irony at the expense of the English aristocracy could hardly have imagined that his picture would still be raising a laugh more than 200 years later
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Citroën Lictoria given by André Citroën to Pius XI, the first modern popemobile
This six-cylinder Citroën Licorne was presented to Pope Pius XI by André Citroën himself on the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. The car was fitted out specially for the Pope, and two hundred people worked on the project. For the bodywork, a non-standard burgundy was
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Many people noticed the unsightly frame of the Salvator Mundi, sold not long ago for $450 million, and Ikea, never one to lose its head, offered to find a new frame for Leonardo's masterpiece for just $9.99
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Love bracelet with diamonds and an unrealised purchase of a fragment of Napoleon's crown
Sadly, nobody bought me a fragment of Napoleon's crown. But a Love bracelet with diamonds is not bad either
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A Golden Laurel Leaf from Napoleon's Crown
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Christie’s sells the highly controversially attributed “Salvator Mundi” by da Vinci for $450.3 million, four times what it was bought for
Christie’s sells the highly controversially attributed “Salvator Mundi” by da Vinci for $450.3 million, four times what it was bought for. The previous record was set by Picasso’s “Women of Algiers”, which went for $179 million
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A young woman helps an elderly lady to dress, presumably her granddaughter
A young woman helps an elderly lady to dress, presumably her granddaughter. Granny is a hundred times more stylish: lace, pearls, and in the casket patches of every size! Now that is cosmetics, not like Rihanna's
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"Don't be so vehement, you filthy scoundrel!
"Don't be so vehement, you filthy scoundrel! I am a woman of fashion!" - a pity one hears nothing of the kind from fashionistas in our day
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Miniature early 19th century coffin with skeleton sold at Sotheby's for £3,000
At Sotheby's this 15-centimetre memento mori souvenir from the kit of an early nineteenth-century English soldier sold for £3,000. A thoroughly disagreeable trinket, but there is no disputing about historical tastes..
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Hallucinogenic ointments and the origin of the image of a witch on a broom
There is a version according to which the broom became one of the symbols of witchcraft not at all because it had long appeared in folklore in association with certain goddesses, but thanks to the use to which it was put in the fourteenth and fifteenth ce. It was then
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An eighteenth-century choker: a diamond-studded bonnet string from grandmother's cap
An eighteenth-century choker: a diamond-studded bonnet string from grandmother's cap. With a little imagination, one could play this up rather nicely. I picture Alla Verber in one, for instance. Or Evelina Khromchenko