Sedan chair from the Villa Ephrussi. A 20th-century house furnished in 18th-century style. Surely, there is an argument for bringing these back?

Commode (c1760-65) made for Mademoiselle de Sens, granddaughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan, recently acquired by the Louvre from the Rothschild collection #c18 #c18th #18thc

#C18th #C19th #fashion #costume #earlymodern New Book | The Masquerade enfilade18thc.com/2026/05/22/n...

An early (circa 1725) tapering tobacco jar manufactured at Mennecy, decorated with applied flowering prunus branches and painted with polychrome flower sprigs. An interesting combination of painted flowers and raised floral decoration inspired by Meissen and imported porcelain from China.

Greek revival covered kylix (Sweden, 1828), with Nelson & Nelson, NUC. (Long) #c18 #c18th #18thc

OTD (338 years ago): Alexander Pope (1688-1744) born this day. Featured in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive: https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00012.shtml #c18th #poetry #DH #OTD

Cow being milked (Delft, c1765), with Earle D Vandekar of Knightsbridge

I just saw this Jacobite anamorphic image of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, which at first looks like smeared paint on a wooden board. When viewed through a metal cylinder placed on the tray, the portrait appears as a reflection and his supporters could raise a glass to Bonnie Prince Charlie.

Unexploded shell found on Culloden battlefield - recent story in Salon, the e-newsletter of @antiquaries.bsky.social #Jacobite #c18 #c18th #18thc

Back to regular, post-vacation posting. Up next in the Jane Austen re-reading project: Emma! #c18 #c18th #18thc

OK, LOT, you rock

Hubert Robert (in Latvian, rendered Ibērs Robērs), Temple of Augustus at Nîmes - Augusta Templis Nīmā, Art Museum Riga Bourse (1783) #c18 #c18th #18thc

Rick-rolled by BL Add. MS 45964 (cc: @stemma.bsky.social)

超快晴青空、月曜。窓辺のゲーテ。 ヨハン・ハインリヒ・ヴィルヘルム・ティシュバイン ［別名 ゲーテのティシュバイン］ 『ローマのコルソ通りのアパートの窓辺のゲーテ』 Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751 – 1829) (aka Goethe-Tischbein) Goethe am Fenster seiner Wohnung am Corso in Rom (Goethe at the window of his flat on the Corso in Rome) (1786/87) #arts

‘Selected Lovely Spiritual Songs’ of the Moravian Brethren (Reval (now Tallinn), 1742), National History Museum of Latvia, Riga #c18 #c18th #18thc

Silver brooch with glass paste jewels (Odziena township, Latvia, #c18 #c18th #18thc), National History Museum of Latvia, Riga

Balthasar Denner, portrait of an old woman (c1730), Art Museum Riga Bourse #c18 #c18th #18thc

Leonhard Schorrer, portrait of Johann David Brederlo (1765), Art Museum Riga Bourse #c18 #c18th #18thc

Porcelain from various German factories (late #c18 #c18th #18thc), Art Museum Riga Bourse (a branch of the Latvian national gallery), Riga

Meissen plate (c1770), Mikkeli Museum, Tallinn #c18 #c18th #18thc

Bugs! Part of my collection of Chantilly porcelain with Kakiemon decoration, made around 1740. Try to find all the crazy insects and butterflies (it’s not too difficult).

Anon., portrait of a lady with a lute (c1750), Mikkeli Museum, Tallinn #c18 #c18th #18thc

Pieces from Estonia’s largest private collection of Delft, in a temporary exhibition at the Mikkeli Museum (the former kitchen building of the Kadriorg Palace), Tallinn #c18 #c18th #18thc

Cochologicidal thoughts & actions sublimely inspired by *Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book*?

Two Sèvres porcelain lobed dinner plates (assiettes à palmes) decorated with sprays and bouquets of flowers and scrolling blue lines on raised decoration. Both made circa 1762. A standard 'stock' pattern but still rather nicely-decorated. (see ALT).

Copy after Georg Christoph Grooth, portrait of Grand Duchess Catherine of Russia while still the wife of the heir to the throne, not yet empress (as Catherine II) but still probably great (mid #c18 #c18th #18thc), Kadriorg Museum, Tallinn

Lake with Castle on a Hill https://www.wikiart.org/en/joseph-wright/lake-with-castle-on-a-hill

Anna Friederica Regina Ringe, portrait of Friedrich Simon Morgenstern (1772), Kadriorg Museum, Tallinn #c18 #c18th #18thc

Kadriorg Palace, Tallinn, built by Peter the Great (1718). Now houses part of the Estonian national art collection #c18 #c18th #18thc

The latest additions to the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive include poems by Ann Radcliffe and William Lisle Bowles, and facsimiles of works by William Cowper and Oliver Goldsmith. www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org #c18th #poetry #DigitalHumanities #ECPA #18thCentury #poems

Tropoeolum Majus (Octandria Monogynia) / Indian Nasturtium, 1775, by #MaryDelany (English, 1700-1788), who was born #otd, May 14. Held at the British Museum, www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory

A Sèvres tray with seven ice cups (tasses à glaces) in the feuille de choux (cabbage leaf) pattern. Marked with dates from 1771 to 1789. Ready for ice cream. Come to think of it, I'm always ready for ice cream.

Pretty rooms in the Ehrensvärd Museum (I went back), Suomenlinna/Sveaborg, Helsinki #c18 #c18th #18thc

The King’s Gate, Suomenlinna/Sveaborg (1753-54), Helsinki #c18 #c18th #18thc

Karl Wilhelm de Hamilton, Forest Floor Still Life (1735), Sinebrychoff Museum, Helsinki #c18 #c18th #18thc

One of our favourite #18thcentury spots behind our new home in Heslington Hall is the two-story summerhouse, part of an eighteenth century garden design that originally included canals, topiary, and a garden wall. #topiary #summerhouse

Attractive display of frankly middling Swedish portraits in the Gustavian Salon, Sinebrychoff Museum, Helsinki #c18 #c18th #18thc

Johan Tobias Sergel, Faun (1774), Sinebrychoff Museum, Helsinki #c18 #c18th #18thc

Miniatures, Sinebrychoff Museum, Helsinki #c18 #c18th #18thc

The Walpole Silver Gilt Seal Salver made for Robert Walpole circa 1717, by William Lukin, engraved by Joseph Sympson. Saw this at Doyle New York over the weekend, a very impressive gilt silver tazza with quite a history. Estimate $80K-$120K, on sale tomorrow. (ALT)

Sir Joshua Reynolds, self-portrait (1773), Sinebrychoff Museum, Helsinki. A copy (by another hand?) of the original at the Royal Academy #c18 #c18th #18thc

François Boucher, Danaë, Sinebrychoff Museum, Helsinki #c18 #c18th #18thc

Anon. portrait of an unidentified gent (probably Swedish, #c18 #c18th #18thc), Sinebrychoff Museum, Helsinki

A hunting lodge with parterre gardens at Chatelherault, built by William Adam in 1734; he referred to it as “the Dogg Kennel”.

Quick glimpse of the Ehrensvärd Museum, Suomenlinna, as it closed for lunch. Augustin Ehrensvärd was the architect of the fortress of Sveaborg, now Suomenlinna, on an island off Helsinki #c18 #c18th #18thc

Lincolns Inn Fields, mid-Georgian doorcase:

Pair of still-lifes (c1792-97) by Nils Schillmark, Ateneum, Helsinki #c18 #c18th #18thc

#C18th #grandtour #earlymodern New Book | Incognito: Friedrich Christian’s Two-Year Tour Abroad enfilade18thc.com/2026/05/03/n...

Isak Wacklin, portrait of Mrs Heckford (1757), Ateneum, Helsinki #c18 #c18th #18thc

Gustav Husselius, portrait (c1768) of Grinn, the cotton-top tamarin monkey that belonged to Carl von Linné (Linnaeus), Gustavianum #c18 #c18th #18thc