The Soldier, the Dandy, and the Queen

29/04/2019 28 min
The Soldier, the Dandy, and the Queen

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This month we focus on a quartet of curious objects at Freeman’s auction house: a marble-top pier table long believed to have belonged to General Washington’s aide-de-camp Tench Tilghman, a quirky painting of Noah’s Ark by foppish Lancaster polymath John Landis, and two stoneware wine bottles in the shape of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices