Objects & Miscellaney

Ceramics & Glassware

Bristol Blue Decanters

High quality cobalt oxide from Saxony was used to create the distinctive rich blue glass from Bristol, known as Bristol...

 

Bat-Printed Porcelain

This collection features a type of ceramic ware specific to the English Regency period. Bat-printed porcelains were produced primarily between 1800 and 1820. The process of decoration was complicated and somewhat difficult, and ultimately fell out of...

 

 

Silhouettes

Painted Silhouettes

A type of silhouette popular in England during the 18th and early 19th centuries was the painted silhouette. Black painted silhouettes, known as profile miniatures, became an inexpensive alternative to the fully painted portrait...

 

Silhouette Jewelry

Silhouettes were set into all sorts of jewelry: rings, brooches, lockets, bracelets. They were very popular as mourning jewelry...

 

 

Dressing Table Items

Perfume Étuis

The 18th century saw the proliferation of pocket-sized nécessaires, often called étuis, with miniature items, such as sewing kits, writing kits, and tiny toilettes that included scent vials. A perfume étui contains only bottles for perfume, and sometimes a tiny funnel for...

 

Throwaway Scent Bottles

In the late 18th century, perfume became available to the masses when perfumers and chemists began selling or giving away as samples tiny amounts in inexpensive, disposable containers. These simple, naïve bottles came to be known as "throwaways" since they were generally tossed out when empty....

 

 

Various Oddments

Ladies’ Pocket Books

Pocket Books served the purpose of the pre-cell phone Day Timer, where you would note appointments in the calendar, keep track of expenses, and perhaps tuck inside other notes, memos, papers, or...

 

Pocket Map of London

A new Pocket Plan of LONDON WESTMINSTER and SOUTHWARK, with all the Adjacent Buildings. Also a correct List of upwards of 300 Hackney Coach Fares....

 

 

Collections in Print

A Guide to Regency Dress

Some of Candice's fashion prints are used in the comprehensive guide to Regency Fashion...

 

Jane Austen’s Wardrobe

Two of Candice's fashion prints are used in this book about Jane Austen and...