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neil guthrie
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Collector. Antiquary. The Material Culture of the Jacobites (2014). Guthrie’s Guide to Better Legal Writing (2017, 2021). Trustee, George R Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art
Chinese teabowl decorated c1744 by Christian Friedrich Metzsch in Bayreuth, with E&H Manners, London #c18th #c18 #
January 25, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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They don't make nursery rhymes like they used to...

From Tommy Thumb's Song Book (1744):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_T...
January 24, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, The Swing of Pulcinella, detail from fresco, 1793, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice.
January 23, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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A number of Meissen animal figures, photos I took last year at the Zwinger in Dresden. Made during the 1730s and intended for Augustus the Strong's Japanese Palace. Several are also in Boston's MFA and the Met and elsewhere. Amazing.
January 24, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Pleased to add Brigid Brophy's Mozart the Dramatist (revised edition) to my Brophy-Levey shelf, where it will be next to her husband's The Life and Death of Mozart (rev. ed.). Both books are so good! @brophylevey.bsky.social #c18th #c18 #18thc
January 24, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Coffee cup from the Vezzi factory (c1720-27), recently sold by E&H Manners, London #c18th #c18 #18thc
January 23, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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Some breaking art historical news for you - a lost portrait of Robert Burns by Sir Henry Raeburn was unveiled today at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. It’s been missing for more than 200 years.
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January 22, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Interesting article in Coin News (March 2025) that I just came across on a group of #Jacobite medals in a leather case, now in the Royal Collection, that probably once belonged to the Stuart claimant 'Charles III' #c18th #c18 #18thc
January 22, 2026 at 11:30 AM
From the Gardiner Museum, Toronto
January 21, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Live! Frozen Delights: A History of Porcelain and Ice Cream
January 21, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Chinese porcelain wine cup (Dehua, 17C), painted and mounted in gilt copper in the Preissler workshop in Kronstadt, Bohemia (c1720), sold recently by E&H Manners, London #c18th #c18 #18thc
January 21, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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The Death of a Gourmand: open.substack.com/pub/gilesmac...
The Last Days of Brillat-Savarin
The Death of a Gourmand
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January 20, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Abraham and Frederik Bloemaart, Oorspronkelyk en Vermaard Konstryk Tekenboek van Abraham Bloemaart (1740), with Ursus Books, NYC #c18th #c18 #18thc
January 20, 2026 at 11:34 AM
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A late 18th century Chinese Export dish decorated in a version of the ‘sworl’ Queen Charlotte pattern in blue and iron-red with gilt highlights. Copying a Worcester (on the right), and others' pattern popular at the time, which was itself a copy of an Imari design. A pattern made around the world.
January 19, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Porcelain box depicting eruptions of Vesuvius from 1754 to 1799 (Naples, c1800). Yours from E&H Manners, London, if you can spare £24,000 (wish I could!) #c18th #c18 #18thc
January 19, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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A Chinese Export porcelain octagonal plate decorated in the Japanese Kakiemon ‘two quails’ pattern in green and iron-red with gilt highlights and a double row of leaves in red along the rim. A very popular motif, you can see it on porcelain from Meissen, Chantilly, Chelsea, Bow and more.
January 18, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Wish I could get to New Haven for this lecture by Frédéric Ogée! (No travel to the US for the time being.)
January 18, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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#Versailles3D Mise en ligne de la modélisation de "La chambre des bains de la reine Marie Leszczynska (1746-1747)", réalisation des étudiants de la licence professionnelle Métiers du numérique : patrimoine, visualisation et modélisation 3D (LPMN) @cy-univ.bsky.social

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November 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Dish from a 600-piece service made by Wedgwood for presentation by the East India Company to Fath 'Ali Shah, the second Qajar dynasty Shah of Persia, in 1810. Long #c18th #c18 #18thc
January 17, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Can you identify this small silver object (c1720), which is about 9 cm (3.5 in) long? Answer in the alt text #c18th #c18 #18thc
January 16, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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“These are the times that try men’s souls…” —Thomas Paine (whom I’m rereading with urgency these days)
January 16, 2026 at 4:16 AM
One of a pair of Chelsea tureens in the form of double pigeons (c1755), Cecil Higgins Museum, Bedford #c18th #c18 #18thc
January 15, 2026 at 11:23 AM
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Benedict Arnold, loyalist 🇬🇧:)
It is Benedict Arnold's birthday. For obvious reasons his image was never on a bank note, but it is an opportunity for me to post one with an elaborate vignette of Gen. Burgoyne's surrender at the Battle of Saratoga where Arnold was wounded in the leg. Bank of Old Saratoga, NY, $10, Jan 25, 1858. 🗃️
January 15, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Benedict Arnold, loyalist 🇬🇧:)
It is Benedict Arnold's birthday. For obvious reasons his image was never on a bank note, but it is an opportunity for me to post one with an elaborate vignette of Gen. Burgoyne's surrender at the Battle of Saratoga where Arnold was wounded in the leg. Bank of Old Saratoga, NY, $10, Jan 25, 1858. 🗃️
January 15, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Another pincushion produced at the time of the #Jacobite rising in 1745-46. The text is a bit hard to make out but is provided in the alt #c18th #c18 #18thc
January 14, 2026 at 11:12 AM