Reply With Quoteno idea if that started of the design but what a wonderful piece.
Looks almost too perfect
Who would have thought it !
For those more knowledgeable about these things, is that where the design came from ?
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-...william-museum
Last edited by Glitterati; 22nd December 2014 at 17:38.
no idea if that started of the design but what a wonderful piece.
Looks almost too perfect
That's excellent.
They were way ahead of their time.
I had to check back with the Fitzwilliam website just to make sure that was for real. What an amazing thing. Thank you for sharing.
Yes, I've been to a lecture by one of the Fitzwilliam curators which included this.
Apparently the little spoon towards the bottom in that photograph was most likely used for digging wax out of people's ears, but they don't tend to go on about that!
There was also a fascinating talk by Penny Bendall who pieced together the two Ming vases 'accidentally' smashed by an allegedly sane museum visitor in 2006 - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...r-display.html
It's a great museum, full of the most amazing stuff. Possibly the best displayed collection of armour in the UK, for example.
All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order and Swiss Army knives... what have the Romans done for us?
Just watched Roman Britain from the air, remarkable stuff.
That is awesome, I must say that my very first thought was that itīs an April Foolsīgag:)
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