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Anna M. Thane
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An account about 18th-century history, flowers, historical fashion, art; can contain traces of poetry and cake. #ChandelierSunday

I blog at: http://regency-explorer.net
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Stanisław Masłowski

Moonrise, 1884

Good night
take care🌙
trailing moon, reflected as a dotted i in water, viewed through winter trees and low clouds, ghostly sunset at the horizon
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Silk crêpe gown embroidered with silver foil leaves and lozenges,
1807-12 c.

Pitti Palace, Museum of Costume and Fashion

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This ivory silk crêpe gown is embroidered with silver foil leaves and lozenges. The oval neckline is adorned with lace. Reflecting the Empire line typical of the early years of the century, it has puffed sleeves and a high waistline below the bust, gathered at the back, and ends in a sophisticated shaped hem at the feet. During restoration, in order to prevent it from deteriorating further, it was taken apart (while preserving the original seams), the fabric was consolidated and certain missing parts were reconstructed. The gown is likely to have belonged to Massimilla Celano, the wife of Prailo Mayo, third-born son of the Governor of the Principality of Francavilla in the Abruzzi.
November 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Gown in aqua green, gros adorned with lace and embroidery at the neckline
1780 c.

Pitti Palace, Museum of Costume and Fashion (www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/...)
Gown in aqua green gros adorned with lace and embroidery at the neckline, along the opening of the bodice and on the front of the skirt. The embroidery, in polychrome silk and metal yarn, depicts serpentine tendrils clutching bunches of flowers held by ribbons. The bodice, whaleboned at the back, opens up into a broad carré neckline at the front, closed by concealed central lacing, and ends in a blunted point at the front and a full, sharp point at the back. Small, regular folds descend from the bodice’s seam at the back, imparting breadth to the lower part of the dress. The skirt is rounded and opens at the front onto the (reconstructed) petticoat, continuing at the back with a short train, while the sleeves, en sabot, are narrow down to the elbows. This gown embodies both trends popular at the time: the robe à l’anglaise and the robe à la française. While the version on display, gathered at the back, is reminiscent of the polonaise, typical of English fashion, its shape could be changed by a system of metal loops into a gown à l’andrienne.
November 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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falling
November 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Dashing!

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Fashion plate of a female figure, viewed from behind. She wears a white and blue redingote by Watteau files, a black shawl decorated with blue flowers (?) in her left hand, holds a riding whip in her right hand, and wears a black tall hat with a wide brim. Herr brown her hands in curls down her back
November 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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This hat was probably convenient to grow all kinds of flowers on it.

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fashion plate of a female figure in a grey and yellow redingote, a stick in her hand, lace around her neck and with a large ballon-shaped hat (yellow and white stripes,decorated with two roses and a blue-grey ribbon), 1790-ish
November 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Bom dia, pessoal!☕
Um ótimo sábado e um excelente final de semana para todos vocês.😘
Que o dia seja tranquilo e harmonico para todos.💙🩵
📷 Clique!💙🤍🩵😉
November 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Born #OTD 1811, John Bright.
A Radical MP from 1843-89, Bright was a champion of parliamentary reform and co-founder of the Anti-Corn Law League.

Dr Simon Morgan explored how Bright and other popular politicians in the age of reform became 'cultural phenomena':
From ‘People’s Champions’ to ‘Tribunes of the People’: popular politicians in Parliament, c. 1810 to 1867 - The History of Parliament
To find out more, Simon’s full-length paper ‘From ‘People’s Champions’ to ‘Tribunes of the People’: popular politicians in Parliament, c. 1810 to 1867’ is
historyofparliament.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Art déco
Art déco
November 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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♡✨️
Trés belle soirée place aux étoiles et à vos rêves...✨️
November 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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#BlueskyArtShow
#Bright
November 15, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Lovely idea!

Thanks for sharing, @plimsollpictures.bsky.social 🌺

#lüsterliebe #ChandelierSunday
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When the deluge is too intense, turn the umbrella upside down and use it as a raft. Chandelier, Escher Museum, The Hague.

#chandelier #escher #netherlands #silvertone #thehague #denhaag #blackandwhite #windows #architecture #classicmono
November 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Here is a cute happy dragon to brighten your day

(floor-tile, early 13th century)
a square floor-tile decorated with the flat figure of a friendly-looking dragon, early 13. century, on display at Bayerisches Nationalmuseum /Munich. The middle-age were so much cooler than I thought.
November 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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details of the embroidery for an 18th-century chasuble
made around 1740
metal thread-ornaments (flowers, leaves); the piece is currently on display at Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich (exhibition: The treasure-book of St. Emmeran) metal thread-ornaments ( various flowers); the piece is currently on display at Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich (exhibition: The treasure-book of St. Emmeran)
November 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Some awesome historic embroidery
detail of an 18th-century chasuble, owned by prince-abbpt Anselm Godin de Tampezo, around 1740, made in Regensburg, metal threads on red silk, currently on display at Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich (exhibition: The treasure-book of St. Emmeran)
November 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Really pleased that the lecture I gave on disability in history for @histassoc.bsky.social is now live and #openaccess #DisabilityHistoryMonth #CriptheCurriculum #18C #WilliamHay #LifeWriting Link: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Film: Disability in Britain and Ireland – 1714 to 1785
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November 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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gathering colours, because winter is grey
November 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Roses of November
view from the side: a white rose blossom covered in tiny raindrops bud of a white-pink rose blossom covered in tiny raindrops a white rose blossom covered in tiny raindrops
November 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Sunday 🌤
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Wonderful sunrise to cheer us up on I grey day, posted by Graham @oldmanrambling.bsky.social
oldmanrambling.bsky.social Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 1d
#ColorADay
#OrangeSun
#Stunday
Today is once again grey and rainy, so I have gone back to this sunrise over our little English village from last November to cheer us up. Have a great day.
#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky
The sun appears from behind a hedgerow and a line of bare trees, lighting the morning sky with soft shades of peachy orange. The foreground field is still in darkness.
November 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Happy memories of a Jane Austen ball in 2017 in Ansbach.
#ChandelierSunday
The setting will be more like a rural assembly room next Saturday night, but I bet the ball will be as much fun. It's the dancing that makes me happy.
the ball room in the orangery of Ansbach palace, view from behind some columns. A huge chandeliers is the focus of the photo. Beneath it, there is a group of people dressed in Regency-style clothes. Curtains frame the view.
November 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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I haven't been to a ball since 2019. Rummaging through my boxes with accessories, I am delighted in finding one labeled: "fans, shoes, gloves, tiaras" (plurals!).

Which fan is best for this fir-green dress?
fir-green dress (high waist and puff-sleeves) with embroidered gold-and silver braids in neoclassical style an early 20th-c fan, made of paper, printed with mofits of the late baroque period black fan embroidered with flowers, golden sequins as blossoms; mock-Spanish design
November 16, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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This chandelier has been around since the time of Jane Austen
#ChandelierSunday

Bath Assembly Room chandelier by William Parker, 1771; photo by Heather Cowper

Read more about chandeliers: regency-explorer.net/chandelier/
Bath Assembly Room chandelier by William Parker, 1771; photo by Heather Cowper (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Assembly_rooms_in_Bath,_Somerset-4547168251-trimmed-adjusted.jpg
March 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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For the incurably romantic

#ChandelierSunday
(source:https://www.pinterest.de/pin/398990848222556174/)
photo pf a young man and a young woman in historical clothes stand in a dim-lit library; there is a black chandelier hanging above them. The light touches their heads
January 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Lost in cerulean silk,
Secrets wrapped in an
untold era,
Embossed in spiritual calm,
Gilded rapture casts a veil,
Crystals frozen in hearts of darkness,
A candle's final flicker,
Waltzing in a dream or reality,
Pages turn, seasons change.
Eve, (GB)

Artist:
Jan De Vliegher
February 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM