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Patricia Ferguson

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Former Curator, British Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Hon. Adviser on Ceramics to various places of national and cultural heritage.

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@theamelia_tw Minnie (1871-1883), the late Lu Lu terrier or Maltese terrier enshrined in an inlaid cabinet of Tunbridge ware in the Museum in Royal Tunbridge Wells. Beautifully renovated museum and public library completed in 2022 in its c.1939 building by @purcell.architecture !

Also a small display of artifacts from @scotneycastle_nt in a community cabinet in the lobby.

#dog #tunbridgeware #theameliatunbridgewells #malteseterrier #terrier by @vasemadness

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#topiary #crathescastle #scotland by @vasemadness

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@pitmeddengarden

In 2021 @nationaltrustforscotland reimagined the upper terrace parterre for the modern world with a fresh, sustainable garden. A biodiverse, species-rich meadow weaves and drifts, offering changing patterns and colours designed by #chrisbeardshaw
#chrisbeardshawdesign by @vasemadness

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Théières des Indes, Sèvres, c. 1778, in a painting by Willes Maddox, commissioned in 1844 as one of three ´portraits’ of William Beckford’s collection by his daughter Susan, @beckfordstower
The teapot is at Brodick Castle, @nationaltrustforscotland
The arrangement in the painted portrait would not have amused her poppa!

#brodickcastle
#isleofarran
#williambeckford by @vasemadness

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Portrait of Richard Windle (1721-1786), of St. Clement Danes parish, London and Shropshire, c. 1750-55, with a Kangxi vase, c.1700-15, painting sold @sothebys, 2 July 2026, lot 382. He may have been in partnership with John Weatherby, John Crowther (both investors in the Bow porcelain factory) and a Thomas Quintin, at the Green Yard Glasshouse, at East Smithfield, until 1759, when the first two left the partnership. And later perhaps in partnership as Maydwell & Windle, glassmakers to George III at the King’s Arms on the Strand. The beaker vase (gu-form) with its distinctive bulging middle section is hopefully identifiable, proudly displayed and depicted in Windle’s portrait.

An elegant trade card for Weatherby, Crowther, Quintin and Windle, is in the British Museum, Heal,66.75

#glassmakers
#ceramiccollector
#potsinpaintings
#apologiesforthezither
#findthatguformvase by @vasemadness

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Peter Snijers The Month of April, 1735? @fineartsbelgium #museesroyauxdesbeauxartsdebelgique by @vasemadness

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#dukeofwellington details @christiesinc #sirthomaslawrence 1820 ex Earls of Rosebery by @vasemadness

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Marthe Armitage : Pattern Maker @pitzhanger Manor and Gallery, the architect Sir John Soane’s former country home in Ealing London.
#marthearmitage has made hand-drawn and hand-printed wallpaper and fabrics since the 1960s from her home in Chiswick.
@marthearmitageprints
Lovely to see her work showcased! by @vasemadness

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@buscot_park the best historic swimming pool in a garden in Britain added in 1934-36 by Gavin Henderson, 2nd Baron Faringdon #swimmingpool by @vasemadness

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Théière « Calabre », Sèvres, 1765, with scene of country games (skittles?), painted by André-Vincent Veilliard père, acquired by Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild (d.1934), @villaephrussi Displayed beside the green-ground vases lent from #Dalmeny by the 8th Earl and Countess of Rosebery. The final room is an explosion of pink and green painted porcelain evoking a Sèvres disco in the Riviera in the 1970s! Or to misquote @alanmeasles a Glastonbury for people who wore @pierrecardin Just one part of the brilliant exhibition in Paris @mobiliernational « Sèvres, une passion Rothschild » on until 26 July. #raveriviera
#bringyouownmusic by @vasemadness

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@southwark_cathedral by @vasemadness

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Seeds of exchange @gardenmuseum watercolour, Guangzhou, c.1800 lent by @vamuseum by @vasemadness

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