Our holidays are usually of the busman’s variety- visits to antiques fairs, stately homes, and other sites of cultural interest, with a heavy emphasis on the fine and decorative arts. It’s what we do…
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Still, popular culture sometimes sneaks in front and center, and this time, it is ‘A Christmas Carol’, released in cinemas last week. The linkage with English antiques is more than just the effect of them in computer animated 3-D. The graphics derive from actual pieces, including (wait for it)- a pair of George III period paktong candlesticks from our own vaunted galleries. I can’t say we have yet gone to see the movie, and the loan of a pair of candlesticks hardly qualified us to stand on the red carpet with Jim Carrey. Perhaps one of my loyal cadre of blogophiles will let me know if the candlesticks are prominent.