#imari — Public Fediverse posts

I never know whether admitting to a thrill from holding and owning a trivial object like this - an #Imari ware #teapot of about 1815 - suggests one isn't serious about history. I hope not. #Materialhistory can be, perhaps must be, partly about the senses and the delight in touch and the stimulation of those colours. Am I, though, romantically associating it with an imagined breakfast table, a broadsheet Times and news of Waterloo? Possibly.