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A little drummer boy, scent flask, 1750s, made at the St. James's factory, just south of @Fortnums (est. 1707), with L'HEURE DU BERGER FIDELLE 😉 Come see them and others over Christmas in Gallery 46!
Here’s the Bow porcelain lineup, it’s all down hill from here, 1750-52, as they became more commercial appealing to the middling classes! #sculpture
'A Morning Frolic, or the Transmutation of Sexes', after John Collett, mezzotint, 1780, pub. by Carrington Bowles. https://t.co/i3hNK5vynG
Beware! One of these creamware jugs is c.1803 and the other @britishmuseum, c. 1880-1920? Which is which?
The 1807 print source for Enoch Wood figure Joe Grimaldi, as #Clown in the #Pantomime, Mother Goose @PotteriesMuseum, #panto @britishmuseum
You know you are #famous when you appear on watch-papers
'NB The Portrait of Mr Wilkes, cut round the circle serves for a Watch Paper', 1768
#WorldArchitectureDay #Ruins Worcester cup & saucer, painted in the James Giles studio, c1770, @britishmuseum (complete service @NTSaltram)
Dr #SamuelJohnson & Mrs Thrale's Meissen teapot, c1758, used to spread the "contagion of china-fancy". Replacement spout poured better. 🎂
@arthistfiona |@arthistfiona, there is a series of tiles printed with actors, 1777-80, @britishmuseum in G46? do you know of pots with Siddons or Jordan?