#MuseumAdventCalendar December 10th: fancy a beer? This fine chap is a stoneware beer jug dating from c. 1550, in a style called a Bellarmine or Bartmann (bearded man). This one has an inscription: “Drink and eat but do not forget your God”, reminding imbibers of their values
#MuseumAdventCalendar December 9th: carved ivory writing tablet with depiction of the Adoration of the Magi, made in Paris about 1350. This teeny object is scarcely bigger than its own caption and is easy to overlook. However I’m going to argue for it as an extraordinary object…
#MuseumAdventCalendar December 8th: the clock in the grand entrance hall of the museum, very high up so tricky to photograph but very pleasing in shape and design, plus the ultramarine blue appeals greatly to me. I do not know if it is original to the building - @Museum_Cardiff?
#MuseumAdventCalendar December 7th: chosen by my 4 year old, it was one of the first things his eye fell upon & he may have chosen it to shut up my questions of what he liked. Or because the frame looks like mega awesome treasure. James Baker Pyne, View at Whitchurch, 1843
#MuseumAdventCalendar December 6th: tin-glazed earthenware posset pot, 1660-1700. “An essential part of celebrations, the posset pot would be found in most homes of the urban middle classes in 17th-century Britain…”
#MuseumAdventCalendar December 5th: David Nash’s Multi-Cut Column. There’s something so appealing about this work: the material, wood; the organic yet machine-made chainsaw cuts; the tactile curving surfaces. Love it. My 4 year old son agreed too on our busman’s holiday today
#MuseumAdventCalendar December 4th: This fantastic horse from a Chinese vase dating to 1600; been off with flu vaccine repercussions so only have this one photo of it on my phone, no full shot sadly…
#MuseumAdventCalendar December 3rd: Charlotte Grenville & her children by Reynolds, c.1778. The 2nd wife of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn and daughter of the Prime Minister George Grenville. She is shown in fashionable “Turkish dress”, which involved looser clothing and hairstyles…
…look at this! Looks like a limp vellum binding? (Sorry not correct terminology @Ligatus_UAL 😬 but can never quite remember what it should be). What say you @IconBook_Paper @BodCons @BainbridgeCons @TinMillPress ? #BooksInArt #MuseumAdventCalendar
…and finally, the happy couple, with their patterned and coloured finery on #MuseumAdventCalendar #EnglishFolkArt #EnglishPopularArt #StaffordshirePearlware #AmgueddfaCymru
#MuseumAdventCalendar December 1st: an English popular art form which would’ve been affordable to many, a piece of Staffordshire Pearlware commemorating the New Marriage Act of 1823. What I especially love about it are the techniques used to represent different materials…
