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Former Curator, British Museum. 18th-century ceramics, especially those with an agenda - a platform for social comment or provocation!

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John Trotter (d.1833) made a fortune supplying the army in the from his Soho Square warehouse & later turned it into a bazaar renting stalls to women selling crafts & plants. Here's his Derby dessert service, c1825, his name in gold is on each piece

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F is for Furloughed, so tweets from this account will be suspended until further notice. This figure is of a Spinstress or spinner, Meissen, c. 1750@ ; and Industry and Idleness, Hogarth, 1747,

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Hope this 1828 unpublished description of Sophie Wilson's China Room at Ledstone, Yorkshire, finds a good home! https://t.co/SenYZv1YHD

If your institution buys it let us know!

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"A Well Known Tea Table Altercation", 1792, engraved for the Carlton House Magazine. Perhaps the Prince of Wales and Mrs Fitzherbert, just saying! Above them the Duke of York, whose wife refused to meet Mrs F*** causing coolness between the brothers.

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Milk maid in St James's Park, London, with the Horseguards Parade Clock Tower in the distance, thank you for the identification! Stipple engraving, after James Northcote, c. 1820. Now the artist would need to include

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And here is a Milk Maid, fifty years later, selling milk in a park in London(?) Does anyone recognize the church tower? Stipple and etching by James Northcote, c. 1820s.

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If only they all came with a backstory! Bow porcelain mug painted by John de Lanauze for his in 1770! After J. E. Nilsson

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What's a - a trompe l'oeil folding screen depicting books and things, part of Korean Court Culture, full house for talk by This one from

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This watercolour 1811 in talk, hints at Duchess of Portland's collection display, 1793 -is it a satire of her son, MP, 3rd Duke of Portland [3rd from left] dressed as his mother? The Bulstrode Siren, 1803

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C is for the Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory and a pair of vases given to in 1763, this one is painted with the Death of Cleopatra, after J-B-M Pierre was made the year before.

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