Van Huysum

The 18th Century Dutch van Huysum family is known for their flower paintings.

Justus van Huysum
Flowers in a vase on a stone slab, 1693
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Jan van Huysum
Flowers and Fruit
early 18th century
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Francina Margaretha van Huysum
Vase of Flowers, 1729
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In Wish With The Candles Emma Hastings notices a flower painting in Professor Justin Teylingen's dining room and he tells her it is a van Husum an ancestor recieved as payment for a debt. He doesn't identify which van Huysum painted it.

Hepplewhite Table

Hepplewhite is a famous British furniture maker and after his death, his wife published a book of furniture designs in his name, The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's guide.  Generally, a Hepplewhite table features wood inlay designs.

Plans for Hepplewhite Table tops

In Wish With The Candles Professor Justin Teylingen has an oval Hepplewhite dining table.

Second Empire Furniture

Second Empire style, also called Napoleon III style, is a French furniture style dating around 1850-1870. It focused on comfort and included elements of many earlier styles.

You can see an amazing green Second Empire sofa on an antique auction site here.

In Wish With The Candles Professor Justin Teylingen's house features Second Empire furniture.

Coq Au Vin

Coq au Vin is, like so many of the dishes in the Betty Neels books, French. It is chicken braised in wine, lardons (chunks of pork fat, similar to bacon), mushrooms and sometimes garlic.

 In Wish With The Candles Professor Justin Teylingen takes the Hastings women to an inn at Cerne Abbas where they have lobster cocktail, Coq au Vin and "a fresh fruit salad laced with Curaçao and veiled in whipped cream."

Lobster Cocktail

I had assumed Lobster Cocktail was like shrimp cocktail - shellfish and cocktail sauce in a glass. However, while the cocktail sauce may be included and it is served In a glass, the dish itself is more of a seafood salad with lobster meat, avocado, lettuce and sometimes brown bread with some kind of sauce.
In Wish With The Candles Professor Justin Teylingen takes the Hastings women to an inn at Cerne Abbas where they have lobster cocktail, Coq au Vin and "a fresh fruit salad laced with Curaçao and veiled in whipped cream."

Nailsea Glass

Nailsea Glass gets its name from the Nailsea Glassworks in Nailsea, Sommerset, UK (near Bristol), but refers to a type of decorative glass often made as end of day whimsies by glassblowers with a distinctive stripe pattern, it is a type.of canework (uses canes of decorated glass) blown lengthwise.

Simple Nailsea Flask

Nailsea Glassworks 1810 by unknown British artist

In Wish With The Candles Mrs. Hastings has "some nice little pieces of Nailsea Glass on the inglenook shelf." (The inglenook is a cozy "room within a room" around the fireplace.)

Carolean

Carolean or Restoration furniture is  a post Puritan English decorative style with many European and even East Indian influences. (Approx 1660-1680) The term Carolean is a reference to King Charles II (Latin Carolus) and the term Restoration refers to the restoration of European influences.

In Wish With The Candles Mrs. Hastings good furniture is mostly Recency era, but includes a Carolean worktable.