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These porcelain flowers are from the Vincennes Manufactory (1740s), which employed 45 women to produce such works. The basket, however, is the product of the Meissen Manufactory (1751). ()

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2019-10-19

Great news!
Newest special issue of ECF is now
https://t.co/LjP6C29dAk
ECF 32.1, "Ecological Footprints: Crusoe’s Island and Other Alien Environments"
Special Issue Editor: Robert Markley, University of Illinois

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2019-10-08

This console table is the only known example of ceramic furniture from the Alcora Manufactory in Spain (1761-63, ). The 10th Count of Aranda likely commissioned it for inclusion in a “#porcelain room.”

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2019-10-03

With talk of a current (in spite of the last 2 votes in another opportunity to read one of our earlier blogs on 'how to get elected' in the
https://t.co/yvVlLxWmM4

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2019-09-12

Born 1Sep1789 Marguerite Power, Countess of forced to marry Cpt. Maurice St. Leger Farmer, a drunk who died when he fell out a window. Four months later, she married ... More: https://t.co/HgNkJfKb29

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2019-09-01

RT : From the All Things Georgian archives, 'The Rule of Thumb' https://t.co/GHxHez0eEK

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2019-08-05

Died 1788 Thomas Gainsborough, unmistakable artist of the He is supposed to have painted this portrait of William Wollaston c.1759; a decade later Wollaston became MP for Read more about him below: https://t.co/c3nbkv7eon

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2019-08-02

Gloucester's birth, just months after the 'Glorious Revolution' had represented the stability of the new regime but he suffered from a number of maladies & his brief life was nicely summed up in the ode composed by Purcell in 1695

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2019-07-30

Why Historians Are Reexamining the Case of the Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits: Mary Toft staged an elaborate hoax, but the pain was real https://t.co/9Cn28YiykP

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2019-07-30

Sometimes get into our This critter lives in an book published in Paris, likely copied from art: https://t.co/tcwRMBid4F. We're over the insect's summer style—perfectly matches its pink & green plant!

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2019-07-28

From the archives of All Things Georgian, 'Bums, Tums and Downy Calves' https://t.co/j4Shdgz2sf

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2019-07-22

Sir Joshua Reynolds, portrait artist was born 1723, at Plympton His portraits could command up to a massive 200 guineas.

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2019-07-16