Every bathroom needs one

Every bathroom needs one

How about this for serendipity: strolling around the V&A, I couldn’t believe my eyes when they spotted this drop-dead gorgeous towel-holder.  Carved, painted and gilded oak, it was made in Northern Germany and the museum dates it to c. 1520-25.  This would...
To cap it all

To cap it all

It is unlikely that historical jesters wore the stock costume of ‘cap and bells’ so visible in medieval and some later iconography, and so prevalent in the Western conception of the court jester.  So I was delighted and intrigued to spot this 17th century...

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