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  2. Toilet service - Wikipedia

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    A toilet service is a set of objects for use at the dressing table. The term is usually reserved for large luxury sets from the 17th to 19th centuries, with toilet set or vanity set [1] used for later or simpler sets. Historically, services were made in metal, ceramics, and other materials, for both men and women, though male versions were ...

  3. Elizabeth Wilkinson - Wikipedia

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    In June 1722, Wilkinson challenged Hannah Hyfield of Newgate Market [8] [9] to what may have been one of the earliest advertised female prizefights in London. [10] Her challenge in a London newspaper declared ”I, Elizabeth Wilkinson, of Clerkenwell, having had some words with Hannah Hyfield and requiring Satisfaction, do invite her to meet me on the Stage, and Box with me for three guineas ...

  4. Lady's Workbox, 1808 - Wikipedia

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    The interest is twofold, firstly it gives samples of 75 types of woods giving their 18th century names, and secondly it gives an insight into the woods then available in Lancaster. Catalogue of the Specimens of Curious Woods (English and Foreign) Introduced in a W0RK- BOX, made for Miss GIFFARD, of Nerquis, by ROBERT GILLOW and BROTHERS, of ...

  5. Hope chest - Wikipedia

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    Girl inspecting her hope chest, by Poul Friis Nybo, c. 1900 Renaissance hope chest from Florence (15th century) A hope chest , also called dowry chest , cedar chest , trousseau chest , or glory box, is a piece of furniture once commonly used by unmarried young women to collect items, such as clothing and household linen, in anticipation of ...

  6. Box - Wikipedia

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    A wooden box with a hinged lid An empty corrugated fiberboard box An elaborate late 17th to early 18th century box (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City) A box (plural: boxes) is a container with rigid sides used for the storage or transportation of its contents. Most boxes have flat, parallel, rectangular sides (typically rectangular prisms).

  7. Cabinet of curiosities - Wikipedia

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    The earliest pictorial record of a natural history cabinet is the engraving in Ferrante Imperato's Dell'Historia Naturale (Naples 1599) (illustration).It serves to authenticate its author's credibility as a source of natural history information, by showing his open bookcases (at the right), in which many volumes are stored lying down and stacked, in the medieval fashion, or with their spines ...

  8. Limoges Box - Wikipedia

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    Limoges porcelain boxes were first created in the mid-18th century after Jacques Turgot, Finance Minister of King Louis XVI, gave a Royal edict to the city of Limoges, France the exclusive right to produce Royal Limoges porcelain for the Kingdom of France. The first Limoges trinket boxes were long narrow containers that were created for ...

  9. Women in the Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    Throughout the 18th century the salon served as a matrix for Enlightenment ideals. Women were important in this capacity because they took on the role of salonnieres. [13] Salons of France were assembled by a small number of elite women who were concerned with education and promoting philosophies of the Enlightenment. [12]

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