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This #18CE wine cooler shows Pluto abducting Proserpine from #RomanMyth. Her mother Ceres goddess of agriculture is so distraught that the world grows cold until they agree that Proserpine will spend half the year above ground and half below, creating the seasons. This story features in Ovid’s Metamorphoses & the image here is very similar to an engraving in a #1770s edition.
In Source: Porcelain Wine Cooler
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But larger pieces of #brocade were made in workshops in #SpitalfieldsMarket #London with silk imported from #India. Below is a gown in The Holburne’s archives possibly made from Spitalfields silk. Signs of alteration suggest that it was an #18CE Sacque-back dress re-cut to suit #1820s fashion because silk was expensive & re-used often.
In Source: Silk Brocade Gown
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