Monthly Archives: December 2016

Season’s Bleatings

Posted on 28th December 2016 by Jack Plane

The setbacks and frustrations have been several this year; a few have been unavoidable due to health issues, but others could and should have been avoided. Of these, the year’s greatest disappointment has been the loss of the entire manuscript … Continue reading →

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Season’s Greetings

Posted on 23rd December 2016 by Jack Plane

Whatever your persuasion and situation, I wish you all well during the festive season. Jack Plane

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Signed, Sealed and (presumably) Delivered

Posted on 16th December 2016 by Jack Plane

An eighteenth-century Chinese imperial seal sold at Drouot’s in Paris on Wednesday for a record €21m (AU$29,751,239) – more than twenty times its pre-auction estimate. Eighteenth-century Qianlong steatite seal. (Drouot) The four-inch square seal, made of steatite, once belonged to … Continue reading →

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Sotheby’s Adopt Stiff Upper Lip

Posted on 13th December 2016 by Jack Plane

… and other body parts. Sotheby’s Old Masters staffers have tackled the #MannequinChallenge during the set up for their forthcoming exhibition in London on the 7th of December.   Jack Plane

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Picture This CI

Posted on 8th December 2016 by Jack Plane

I mentioned mahogany wake tables in A Wake back in January this year: At approximately twelve feet long and six feet wide, when open, could the massive wake table below have been commissioned for seeing off one of Ireland’s renowned … Continue reading →

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Picture This C

Posted on 6th December 2016 by Jack Plane

“All craftsmen make blunders, but what separates the truly great ones is the ability to redress their mistakes.” Regular reader, Burbidge, emailed me about an aspect of the mahogany linen press in figure 1. It conforms closely to the drawing … Continue reading →

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