Waistcoat, French, between 1780-1790.

Silk and silk embroidery.

Now in storage at the Costume Institute in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Stays, ca. 1780, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Dining room from the Lansdowne House, 1766-1769, designed by Robert Adam.

Plaster by Joseph Rose, Woodwork by John Gilbert, Marble chumneyplace by John Devall & Co.,London.

Now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Grand Piano by Bartolomeo Cristofori, 1720. Yes, this dude was the inventor of the piano.

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Cover of the Metropolitan Museum of Art book of the exposition “Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Forniture in the Eighteen Century” by Harold Koda.
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Cover of the Metropolitan Museum of Art book of the exposition “Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Forniture in the Eighteen Century” by Harold Koda.

You can buy it HERE at Amazon

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