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Pocket [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… and Bodkin; a Bunch of Keys, a red Leather Pocket-book; a green knit Purse, containing Half a Guinea, […] with two Glass Smelling Bottles.’ 1 1 . Public Advertiser (London), Tuesday March 12th 1754. The list of objects contained in the … attention. Pockets, mobility and fashionable entertainments Because they could hold cash, entry tickets, fans, opera glasses, snuff, patch and bonbon boxes, etuis, or pocket books, pockets contributed to elite women’s active participation … instrumental to female sociability not solely because of what they enabled – a notebook to jot down engagements, a spy glass to look at the stage or the audience from a distance when at a play – but also because of the subtle choreography …
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Snuffbox [ Art & Luxury / Clothing & Fashion / Social interaction / Taste & Manners / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
… Image Jeweled Snuffbox, ca. 1765, German, Berlin. Glass, gold, silver, diamonds and rubies, H. 6 cm, L. 10 cm, D. 8.8 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Robert … horn, shell, mother of pearl, tortoiseshell, ivory and leather. Image Legend Jeweled Snuffbox, ca. 1765, German, Berlin. Glass, gold, silver, diamonds and rubies, H. 6 cm, L. 10 cm, D. 8.8 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Robert …
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The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated (1733) [ Concepts ]
… within; In me, what spots (for spots I have) appear, Will prove at least the Medium must be clear. In this impartial glass, my Muse intends Fair to expose my self, my foes, my friends; [60] Publish the present age; but where my text Is …
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Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… (later the brilliant correspondent, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu). At some point these verses were inscribed onto the wine glasses themselves. There was some overlap in membership with a contemporaneous club called The Toasters, the two clubs … ideal of an English gentleman – ‘clubbable’ and cultured, ‘polite’, tolerant and urbane, articulate ‘with the help of a Glass at their Mouths’ 15 – was cultivated by the Kit-Cat authors, all of whom saw Lord Somers, Kit-Cat founding member, … Holly Bush Steps, Hampstead (relatively near the former site of the Upper Flask Tavern), and there is a Kit-Cat toasting glass in the collection of the Christ Church Picture Gallery in Oxford. The Kneller portraits of the Kit-Cat members are …
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