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mercurialmalcontent: marzipanandminutiae:vinceaddams:english-history-trip:hasufin:nonasuch:jkthinkythoughts:fashionsfromhistory:Snuffboxc.1740FranceMFA Boston I have never in my life seen an objet d'art that qualified for the Tiffany Paradox, but here we are. It looks like it fell off a middle school girls bedroom desk circa 1987. I love this.also I went and looked it up on the MFA website and as I suspected, it’s made of mother-of-pearl! the rainbow parts are probably from iridescent blacklip shells, and the rest is carved white oyster shell. There are some Chinese porcelains which are definitely worthy of the Tiffany paradox - I mean, sure, it was made in the 1300s but it’s a lemon yellow tea bowl - but honestly this one really epitomizes the matter. Hey, check out these funky Chico’s necklaces from my Jewish grandmother’s collection:SIKE they are 1400 YEARS OLD ooh, I’ve got some more! Look at this painting.A Caricature Group by John Hamilton Mortimer, c. 1766. This does not look like an 18th century oil painting, it looks more like something out of Mad magazine, but nope. 1760’s.I made a pinterest board for 18th century pottery just to save all the Weird Stuff to it, like this horrible bear jug, which is just one of many similarly horrible 18th century bear jugs! It’s hideous and I love it. Mugs shaped like people’s heads was also A Thing, here’s one from c. 1782.And I LOVE this teapot with fossil decoration c. 1760-65. It’s amazing. Perfect. I would so dearly love to have a replica and feature it prominently in a photoshoot with some of my 18th century costumes.This one is also c. 1760’s.And one more, also c. 1760!I love pretty historical dishes with delicate floral patterns as much as the next guy, but seeing weird and bright and tacky stuff from over 2 centuries ago makes me happy.Honourable mention to these c. 1788-93 stockings with little knitted portraits in between the brightly coloured stripes. I discovered, when investigating what 1840s pearl earrings looked like for a ball outfit, that they lookEXTREMELY 1980sseriously I was able to buy something from the Fancy Section of Claire’s that looked almost exactly like the top example I love this.When I think about it, it makes perfect sense that we can look back and see familiar designs and colorways pop up again and again throughout history – humans love reiterating on things, and old trends come back into style again and again. Just yesterday I saw high-waisted trousers of a kind I last saw in the 80s referred to as a style with a ‘modern’ waistline – why wouldn’t people in centuries past have come up with designs we find familiar from our more immediate pasts? -- source link
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