Dealer’s description (lightly edited): ‘Straight and tapering sides. Chased vases joined by swags with perched eagles. At top is engraved “Elizabeth – Matthew”. At bottom, “Nürnberg, 1792”. Russian marks on base [not shown] include assay year. Good condition with some base bungs.’

Silver wine beaker (Russia, 1792), with Nelson & Nelson, NYC. #c18 #c18th #18thc

After he finished sitting for this painting he died from all the lead paint makeup 😬 (Great shot AnnaLois ☺️👍🏼)

I said ten minutes on the sunbed Brian not thirty!

for #PalacesandGardens theme of #AprilFools

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Photograph taken of an C18th oil painting of a young boy who looks like he's either had an allergic reaction to some face cream or has been on the sunbed a little too long! He's wearing a black outfit with silver braid and a white lace ruff. The frame is a heavy, ornate gold and hangs against a beautiful dull sage green wallpaper of water silk.

I said ten minutes on the sunbed Brian not thirty!

for #PalacesandGardens theme of #AprilFools

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Mmme Geoffrin seated at a table in front of a fireplace in an elegant room hung with pictures, attended by a manservant in an apron. Behind him, a rake-like is propped against an armchair with red velvet upholstery. Muted browns and reds generally.

Mme Geoffrin standing and pointing to the oval painting on an easel being presented to her by an artist in a frock coat; in the background a four-poster bed with red silk hangings. More muted browns and red - more of the latter in bed-hangings and curtains

The Louvre has acquired, through its right of pre-emption, two paintings by Hubert Robert from the sale of the Veil-Picard collection at Christie’s: Le Déjeuner de Madame Geoffrin and Un Artiste présente un tableau à Madame Geoffrin #c18 #c18th #18thc

Page 51 from THE HISTORY OF THE ISLE OF MAN (Dublin, 1780): […] resembling a compleat young Woman, but below that, all Fish, with Fins, and a huge spreading Tail. she was carried to a House, and used very tenderly, nothing but Liberty being denied. But tho' they set before her the best Provision the Place afforded, she could not be prevailed on to eat or drink, neither could they get a word from her, tho' they knew these Creatures were not without the Gift of speech, having heard them talk to each other, when sitting regaling themselves on the sea-side. They kept her in this Manner three Days, but perceiving she began to look very ill with fasting, and fearing some Calamity would befal the Island if they should keep her till she died, they agreed to let her return to the Element she liked best, and the third Night set open their Door; which, as soon as she beheld, she raised herself from the Place where she was then lying, and glided with incredible swiftness, on her Tail, to the sea-side. They followed at a Distance, and saw her plunge into the Water, where she was met by a great Number of her own species, one of whom asked what she had observed among the People on Earth; nothing very wonderful answer'd she, but that they are so very ignorant, as to throw away the Water they boil their Eggs in. This Question, and her reply, they told me, was distinctly heard by those who stood on the shore to watch what passed. As I had not yet attained a thorough Knowledge of the superstition of these People, nor the passionate Fondness for every thing that might be termed, The Wonderful; I was excessively surprized at this Account, given with so serious an Air, and so much, and solemnly averred for Truth. I perceived they were not a little disgusted at my want of Faith, but to make a Convert of me, they obliged me to listen to another, as odd an Adventure as the former, which they assured me was attested by a whole ship's […]

From THE HISTORY OF THE ISLE OF MAN (Dublin, 1780): a mermaid, caught by fishermen but eventually released, tells her own people what humans are like:

“…they are so very ignorant, as to throw away the Water they boil their Eggs in”
#WyrdWednesday #folklore #C18
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Flat, tapered to a sharp point with an oval loop at the other end. Demi-lion crest engraved near the loop on an otherwise blank surface. Resting on a red leather table-top. On the other side (not shown) hallmarks and the maker’s mark TC (Thomas Chawner)

This long (nearly 30 cm/12 in) silver meat skewer (London, 1785) was intended to hold the beef together while you carved it, but would make an excellent (defensive) weapon. I keep it handy ... #c18 #c18th #18thc

Catalogue: 'Circular, the cover, base and sides inset with plaques of multi-colour stained macédoine aventurine glass, the gold mounts applied with a rope motif, the interior lined with blonde horn over engine-turned foils stamped with scattered pellets, marked on flange, cover and base mounts: decharge and countermark'

Bonbonnière with gold mounts and multicoloured glass aventurine glass top (Paris, 1782-89), at Christie’s, Paris (est. €3,00-5,000) #c18 #c18th #18thc

Good bloople of bluesky, join me in Duluth! With more in the shout out vein to @adamwithbooks.bsky.social and Patricia Buckley Ebrey and Will Slauter. #bookhistory #18c #c18 #vastearlyamerica

Projet de lit « à la polonaise », Jean-Démosthène Dugourc (1749-1825) Paris, vers 1784-1790. Plume, encre noire, aquarelle sur papier. Inscription en bas à gauche : J.D. Dugourc, inv. Del (date grattée) Marque de collection en bas à droite : Lugt 103b [Richard Wallace] © Les Arts Décoratifs / Christophe Dellière

And another reason to be in Paris madparis.fr/Une-journee-... #c18 #c18th #18thc

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

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

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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#c18 #18thc #bookhistory

Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture

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

Neue Anklagen gegen Neonazis von „Combat 18“ Der Prozess gegen vier teils prominente Neonazis, die die verbotene militant-rechtsextreme Organisation „Combat 18 Deutschland“ nach dem Verbot weitergeführt haben sollen, ging vor dem Landgericht Dor...

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

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

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

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

Another loading screen redraw! I tried to mimic that limited color style.
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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.'

Carnelian intaglio depicting the departure of Hector (Italian, #c18 #c18th #18thc), with Matthew Holder, London

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.'

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

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