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Time to revisit the most popular treasure in Taiwan's National Palace Museum ~ the Jadeite Cabbage, carved from single variegated piece of jadeite, ingeniously taking advantage of variegations & defects, just 18cm (7in) high. Locust & katydid hide in leaves (at R) (Qing Dynasty)
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Geneva Bible (1639); embroidered binding by Anne Cornwallis Leigh ca 1640. Super-sized serpent (!) and Adam getting his own apple all by himself ! PML 17197.1
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Love this extendable 1566 medicine chest, up to a metre long, with 126 bottles & pots for drugs ~ some with their original contents ~ including rhubarb powder, anti-worms ointment, juniper water & mustard oil. Made for Genoese governor of Aegean island of Chios (Wellcome Trust)
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This 18th-century stomacher, covered in polychrome silk and silver metal thread embroidery, is perfect for spring! Its green tabs, which would have been pinned (or even stitched) in place to a gown with a V-shape opening, still survive
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A Japanese pattern book from the mid 1800s. It shows the the stencil patterns the factory could print onto fabric to make a kimono - via The Ashmolean Museum
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Exhibition | Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 1550–1800 enfilade18thc.com/2023/01/26…
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If you take a sumptuous wedding gown, embroider it with silver, wrap it up & bury it under sand & mud for 400 years, you might get something remarkable like this. Discovered intact in the 1620s wreck of the Palmwood, discovered buried off Dutch coast smithsonianmag.com/smart-new…
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Column from a XII Century portal at Saint-Lazare d'Avallon church (France)
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cleopatra, france, 14th century
ALT a medieval drawing of a woman from the chest up wearing a crown and headdress with the word "cleopatra" written beneath
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#OnThisDay 1585, William Cecil, chancellor of @Cambridge_Uni, in an effort to rein in exuberant student fashion issued a set of Orders for the Apparel of Scholars
No scholar was to wear any gown except one of “woollen cloth of blacke, puke, London browne, or other sad colour”
ALT portrait of burghley in a red robe and dark cape. he is hood a white wand if office and a jewelled collar of the order of the garter around his neck
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Today, artichokes are mainly associated with Brittany & the southwest, but in the Renaissance they were new to France. Botanists thought they helped cure excessive armpit odours (!) & recommended that they should be eaten with coriander, oil, fermented fish sauce and wine... 1/5
ALT Leonhart Fuchs, L’histoire des plantes, Lyon: Guillaume Rouillé, 1558
-10 days till 'Cross-Dressing the Early Modern', the 2022 @DressingEMN conference supported by @CamHistory, convened by Jola Pellumbi, @sarajacomien, @AnaHowie1 and yours truly. Register Now! CrossDressingEarlyModern2022…
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Check out this CFP for what looks set to be a fantastic conference on Cross-Dressing the Early Modern: Exploring Transformations through Dress!
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A painting of strawberries by Chardin made €24.4m @Artcurial, setting the record for the French artist. This is also the highest price paid at auction for an 18th-century French painting ow.ly/cbpE50Ir6PP
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[PODCAST AVEC OLIVIER GABET]
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Notre podcast enregistré avec @olivier_gabet, le passionnant directeur du @madparisfr, est en ligne ici: culturesdemode.com/adhesion-…
