At Home in the Nineteenth Century

Fig. 1  Celery vase with celery stalks.  Photograph©The Strong Museum, Rochester, NY No dinner in the Victorian period was complete wit...

Fig. 1 Design for a Grecian couch, attributed to Gillows (active 1730- 1897), c.1820, Lancaster and London. Ink and gouache on pape...

Fig. 1  Stele (grave marker) of a man, c.375-350 B.C., Greek, marble. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY In the eighteenth...

Standing Salt with Cover 1584-1585 London Gilt silver The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY The practice of providing condim...