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Trustee at The London Luminaries. Historic buildings operations manager. Loves Meissen/Jacobite/symbolism/ collections/Turner/Soane/Wedgwood/Meissen

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Opening day at Pitzhanger Manor! If you’ve been lucky enough to get a ticket why not complement your time in west London with a visit to Turner’s House? Turner often entertained Soane here & Soane entertained Turner at Pitzhanger. Both loved to fish, & Soane liked to catch eels!

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A very rare medal of the Order of Gormogons, a splinter quasi-Masonic group headed by Philip, Duke of Wharton, former Grand Master of English Freemasonry. The order was ridiculed by William Hogarth. Hogarth, like his brother in law, James Thornhill, was also a Freemason.

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More early 18th century Meissen gorgeousness

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this looks great! Exhibition on the Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill House! I’m going for sure! https://t.co/FX66qi1wQB

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In some cases the gesture with open fingers does indicate Freemasonry- the gesture symbolises open compasses (see examples for Chiswick House). Open compasses is a sign of a Master Mason. In Astronomy open compasses are a symbol for the sun, thus followers of a solar monarch.

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Murray Park today: the original location of the Duke of Argill's estate at Whitton. Such a shame- love the canal and Gothic Tower.

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Gorgeous Qianlong export porcelain bowl decorated with a soldier from the Black Watch at the time of Fontenoy (1745).

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