Image of an 18th-century handwritten French document.
Periodic palaeographical plea: any thoughts on the underlined text in this c. 1784 notarial act? "L'an de l'??? est comparu..." Merci beaucoup! #C18
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Exhibition poster with a blue, white and gold Sèvres covered vase , a tea cup with portraits of three children and a porcelain spaniel on a neo-classical pedestal with the name Fidélité written it; in the background à view of the Côte d’Azur
A good reason to be in Paris www.mobiliernational.culture.gouv.fr/fr/expositio...
#c18 #c18th #18thc
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Festoons of large diamonds and trailing bits ending in diamond and pearl tassels (replica of the broken-up original)
Replica of the diamond necklace (1772-74) that Queen Marie-Antoinette did _not_ buy, but which sank her reputation. In the V&A’s Marie Antoinette Style exhibition with Sutherland and Anglesey pieces containing stones from the original #c18 #c18th #18thc
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Bateman is because she farmed out large quantities of mediocre work to jobbing smiths. There were much better female silversmiths in the 18C, like Louisa Courtauld and Anne Tanqueray. Dealer's description: 'Ovoid with straight sides; cover hinged and domed with stained-wood finial. Diagonal spout and high-looping and capped stained-wood handle. Beaded mouth and base rims. Bright-cut ornament including garlands, leafing scrollwork, and pendant flowers; two oval frames of which one engraved with interlaced script monogram. Pointille, wavy, scalloped and meandering borders.'
Silver teapot with the mark of (the overrated - see the alt text) Hester Bateman (London, 1788), with Nelson & Nelson, NYC #c18 #c18th #18thc
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Happy to field any questions. Please share!
#c18 #18thc #bookhistory
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If only travel to the Untidy States were not off-limits for me (for obvious reasons I shall not mention): Gainsborough and 'The Fashion of Portraiture' at the Frick in NYC www.frick.org/exhibitions/... #c18 #c18th #18thc
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Silver medal. Obverse: 'James III and VIII' in profile in full-bottomed wig, laureate, armoured and draped. Legend: NIHIL EFFICIENS ('Accomplishing nothing').
Reverse: map of Great Britain and Ireland; marked SCOTIA 1708. M. MART. 1716. M. FEBR. BRITANNIA, HIBERNIA; ships about the coast. Legend: BIS VENIT VIDIT NON VICIT FLENSQVE RECESSIT ('Twice he came, he saw, he did not conquer and he retired in tears'). A couple of light surface marks to obverse, toned and with a flashy lustre, extremely fine.
Satirical medal (1716) on the repeated failures of the #Jacobite claimant to regain his ancestral thrones (1708 and 1715; more lay ahead), at Spink (est. £1,500-2,000) The Latin is catty: see the alt #c18 #c18th #18thc
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Während in Dortmund kürzlich ein Prozess gegen Neonazis eingestellt wurde, die die verbotene Organisation „Combat 18“ weitergeführt haben sollen, wurden in Hessen und Rheinland-Pfalz weitere mutmaßliche Mitglieder angeklagt. #C18
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Small, bulbous cup with handle and lid with finial, painted with floral sprigs in underglaze blue. Height (incl. cover): 8.4cm (3.3in); width (incl. handle): 8.4cm (3.3in)
Base with hunting horn mark in underglaze blue
Custard cup with cover, hunting horn mark on the base (Chantilly, c1750) #c18 #c18th #18thc
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Oval black basalt with a bust of Pope with characteristic sharp nose and longish, natural hair, no drapery, in relatively high relief, looking left. Less than an inch at its longest
Tiny Wedgwood & Bentley portrait of Alexander Pope (c1770), perhaps intended to be mounted on a ring #c18 #c18th #18thc
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Mezzotint trimmed within the plate and laid on album paper. Oval portrait of Pribce Charles Edwrad's helper after Culloden. She wears a tartan shawl and has a rose in her hair and two more fastened to her bodice; she holds a flower garland in her left hand. ‘Mrs Flora Macdonald’ in flowing script in a panel beneath the portrait. Apologies for the crappy scan :)
James McArdell after Alan Ramsay, Flora Macdonald (c1765), with Grosvernor Prints, London #Jacobite #c18 #c18th #18thc
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Another loading screen redraw! I tried to mimic that limited color style.
#Redraw #fanart #dragonball #dragonballz #dragonballxenoverse2 #dragonballsuper #digitalart #digitalartist #artist #db #dbz #dbgt #dbxv2 #dbs #art #android18 #android18fanart #a18 #c18
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![Dealer's description: 'Measurements5.0 × 4.5 cm (silver mount), excluding chain. Weight: 17.5 g. Mounted in a later silver mount with suspension chain at the top. A large, finely executed carnelian intaglio [in orangey red] depicting the poignant farewell of Hektor to his wife and child at the Scaean Gate. The composition shows the helmeted hero, armed with spear and shield, moving rightward toward an attendant holding two horses; to the left stand Andromache and the infant Astyanax, attended by a female figure. The iconography derives from the climactic episode in the Iliad by Homer and is rendered here with calm economy of line and confident, shallow cutting suited to gems of substantial scale. The cutting is clearly executed in the refined neoclassical manner associated with late-18th/early-19th-century workshop models and is faithful to a well-known [Luigi] Pichler composition after a drawing by Vincenzo Camuccini (see references). The scale of the present gem—unusually large for the subject—allows a composed, almost sculptural arrangement of figures and a readable narrative in a single register; the workmanship of the figures’ drapery, the treatment of the shield and horses, and the measured use of incision point to a superior workshop execution “in the Pichler manner.” Condition: a set of breaks to the right side of the gem (visible in the photographs). These fractures are consolidated and stable; there is no loss of material and they do not materially interrupt the readability or aesthetic presence of the engraving. The silver mount and suspension are later and in good condition.'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iecuzvb72xfdwlum2pc5ggj2/bafkreib3nq4mr7cyzevutx4tec7huuvjdej4pfiupjbngg7djxg7ukpq7i)
Dealer's description: 'Measurements5.0 × 4.5 cm (silver mount), excluding chain. Weight: 17.5 g. Mounted in a later silver mount with suspension chain at the top. A large, finely executed carnelian intaglio [in orangey red] depicting the poignant farewell of Hektor to his wife and child at the Scaean Gate. The composition shows the helmeted hero, armed with spear and shield, moving rightward toward an attendant holding two horses; to the left stand Andromache and the infant Astyanax, attended by a female figure. The iconography derives from the climactic episode in the Iliad by Homer and is rendered here with calm economy of line and confident, shallow cutting suited to gems of substantial scale. The cutting is clearly executed in the refined neoclassical manner associated with late-18th/early-19th-century workshop models and is faithful to a well-known [Luigi] Pichler composition after a drawing by Vincenzo Camuccini (see references). The scale of the present gem—unusually large for the subject—allows a composed, almost sculptural arrangement of figures and a readable narrative in a single register; the workmanship of the figures’ drapery, the treatment of the shield and horses, and the measured use of incision point to a superior workshop execution “in the Pichler manner.” Condition: a set of breaks to the right side of the gem (visible in the photographs). These fractures are consolidated and stable; there is no loss of material and they do not materially interrupt the readability or aesthetic presence of the engraving. The silver mount and suspension are later and in good condition.'
Carnelian intaglio depicting the departure of Hector (Italian, #c18 #c18th #18thc), with Matthew Holder, London
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An early 19th-century book, laid open. On the blank left-hand page is a pencil sketch of a man in profile. The man is looking to the left; he is clean-shaven, with short, sparse hair, and he wears a high-collared jacket with what looks like a bulky plaid wrapped over his shoulders. The words "D McIntyre" are written in pencil underneath.
Portraid Dhonnchaidh Bhàin?
Donnchadh Sneddon, SCOTTISH STUDIES 42/1, 2026
A copy of the poems of Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir (1724–1812) held by @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social has what might be the only extant portrait of the bard himself
#C18
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![Dealer's description: 'A small, single-block wood carving of a [rather sad-looking] lion’s head, probably made as a furniture mount. The face is simply modelled with rounded brows, a pronounced muzzle and a flowing, stylised mane; the mouth is slightly parted.'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iecuzvb72xfdwlum2pc5ggj2/bafkreibobjbem6azi65uzdy7a4apu3rhy3wndcljvolbejgmunhwru5cre)
Dealer's description: 'A small, single-block wood carving of a [rather sad-looking] lion’s head, probably made as a furniture mount. The face is simply modelled with rounded brows, a pronounced muzzle and a flowing, stylised mane; the mouth is slightly parted.'
Carved wood lion mask mount (English, #c18 #c18th #18thc), with Matthew Holder, London
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Promotional graphic for the book Jacques-Louis David’s Drawings: Bodies in Action' by Tamar Mayer. The background features a black-and-white painting of David’s 'Leonidas at Thermopylae'- featuring nude Spartan soldiers, which has been taken from the book's cover. A blue banner across the center reads, 'Examines the archetypical and best-known neoclassical painter in France from a different perspective.' On the right, a smaller image of the book cover appears with the title and author. Logos for Liverpool University Press, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, and the Voltaire Foundation appear along the bottom.
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Dealer's description: 'The bezel comprises a graduated group of rose-cut diamonds set in closed silver collets, the large central stone flanked to either side by smaller rose cuts arranged in a bow-like formation. The use of silver mounts is a deliberate optical practice: the pale metal increases the apparent brilliance and perceived size of the rose cuts when viewed from the table, while the closed (backed) settings protect the culets and stabilise the stones within the bezel. The plain gold shank is engraved with lightly modelled foliate ornament and retains traces of black enamel. The reverse of the bezel is set with black enamel applied within a series of recessed cells — a concealed polychrome treatment commonly reserved for fine work of the period and a mark of careful finishing. The gold shank bears the France ‘Hibou’ (owl) duty mark, indicating 18-carat gold and importation. The ring’s combination of rose-cut diamonds in silver collets, concealed enamel on the reverse and the restrained foliate engraving situates it firmly within the ornamental vocabulary of the Baroque jeweller in the late 17th century.'
Rose-cut diamond and black enamel ring in high-carat gold with silver collets (western Europe, late 17C or early #c18 #c18th #18thc), with Matthew Holder, London
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Each of the 4 has an urn socket with detachable drip-pan; tapering pillar on stepped and raised foot. Low relief goat head-mounted garlands and paterae of which one vacant and the others inset with mask in petal surround. Beading, reeding, fluting, and leaf-and-dart.
Set of silver candlesticks by William Abdy (London, 1779), with Nelson & Nelson, NYC #c18 #c18th #18thc
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Things I've asked my writing group this week:
• Do I need to be more explicit that the dancing-masters were pimps?
• which of these quotes is the filthiest?
• is it obvious that the stilts represent an erection?
#amwriting #c18 #theatrehistory
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Mahoney serving table: ‘oblong banded top with serpentine front and outset corners, chamfered at the front, the frieze broken above the pilasters and inlaid with pairs of twin oval paterae in small panels, the top resting on ten tapering legs with carved acanthus leaf capitals, all joined by two pairs of arched x-stretchers, ht. 36, lg. 72 in.’
Georgian inlaid mahogany serpentine-front serving table (English, late #c18 #c18th #18thc), at Skinner Marlborough, Boston (est. US$6,000-8,000)
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Listen to @ionafyfe.bsky.social sing Robert Tannahill’s “The Braes o Balquhidder” here
#C18 #music
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One of the many great musical set pieces in #Sinners is “Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go” (aka “Wild Mountain Thyme”) – adapted in the 1940s by Francis McPeake from “The Braes o Balquhidder”, an original song by Robert Tannahill (1774–1810), Paisley’s “weaver poet”
#C18 #music
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Cover of the 1981 Penguin edition: portrait of Lady Colville in Regency décolletage and pearls by Sir Henry Raeburn. Designed by Germano Facetti, Penguin’s head of design
Up next in the JA rereading project: P&P (Long) #c18 #c18th #18thc
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Catalogue (lightly edited): 'Of rectangular form with canted corners, each piece painted in underglaze blue on a white ground with a view of a fenced peony garden, a pheasant observing its mate perched on the rock above, and a pair of birds in flight in the distance, the rims surrounded by shaped demi-flowerhead panels issuing tendrils and flowering vinery, all within brown dressed rim edges, affixed with lion mask handles, the finial a recumbent lion.’ The lid is from a different tureen and there are some condition issues, so I won’t be bidding
Chinese export porcelain tureen and stand (c1745-1780), at Devin Moisan Auctions, Epping, NH, est. US$600-900 #c18 #c18th #18thc
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Portrait of a young lady in an aquamarine dress and matching hat with lace trimmings. Stolen from Arthur Georges Veil-Picard (1854-1944) by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg; restituted to his heirs in 1946 after brief stays in the Jeu de Paume and the Louvre and at Buxheim in Bavaria; offered for his sale by their descendants
Anon. pastel portrait after Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun (c1777), at Christie's, Paris (est. €10,000-15,000) @neiljeffares.bsky.social #c18 #c18th #18thc
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