Tales of Ribaldry

Feckless Fops, Bawdy Bards, Ribald Rakes, Opulence, Decadence, Camp

[vivelareine]

[thefecklessfop]

Theda Bara showing what the french aristocracy is made of...the tails of a thousand weasels apparently.

[brassivydesign]

[thefecklessfop]

Gilded Mer-man armband with secondary submer-man.

Greek, Hellenistic ca, 200 B.C.

[jaded-mandarin]

[thefecklessfop]

Dead things are sooo tedious.

[rrrick]

[rashasha]

g-o-a-l-s!

[thefecklessfop]

Fancy? Indeed.

Pants?Indubitably.

[thefecklessfop]

Two vases with absolutely inexplicable turkey adornments.

[thefecklessfop]

A feckless Regency era youth youth abducted side-saddle by a Saint Bernard

[thefecklessfop]

A jaunty Hungarian boy harrasing a goose.

[thefecklessfop]

Even my match-case must feature a magical tryst.

[thefecklessfop]

Hungarian Baroness Lya de Putti maximizing the efficiency of vice.

[thefecklessfop]

Easily one of the most scandalous works of the ancient world, fro the red hot town of Ancient Herculaneum. For maximal temptation  it was hidden behind a veil in Naples, in the “museum secretum”. 

[thefecklessfop]

A very suggestive milk pitcher of Posiden riding a sea creature.

[thefecklessfop]

Renaissance French sugar spoon, the cuillere de soliel

[thatqueerwandering-earthchild]

Looks like Dionysos to me

[thefecklessfop]

Behold Bottom's dream

[historyandmythology]

Bronze statuette of a satyr dancing | Etruscan | Classical | The Met

[juliablogjulia]

[thefecklessfop]

I must have one, bring me a poodle and a wig at once.

[mizkitschbitch]

[thefecklessfop]

My back-up carriage.

[mizkitschbitch]

[thefecklessfop]

My new hunting hound, a magnificent beast.