Motley Mix Jewelry

[Alison Fisk @AlisonFisk]

Happy weekend!

Here’s an ancient Egyptian bead in the form of a curled-up blue hedgehog! Look at the little face and paws! 🦔💙

Made of faience around 3,600 years ago.

National Museum of Scotland 📷 by me

#Archaeology

[ヴェサ @tsukironin]

Yoshida Hiroshi (吉田博, 1876–1950)

Memories of Japan

1900

[Masterpieces of Japan @JapanTraCul]

Taro-inari Shrine at Asakusa, by Kobayashi Kiyochika, ca. 1930

[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

Book bracelet, made in England, c.1840. Collection: The Walters Art Museum.

[Masterpieces of Japan @JapanTraCul]

Butterfly on Peony, by Watanabe Shotei, 1893

[Masterpieces of Japan @JapanTraCul]

Japanese water iris with water striders, by Watanabe Seitei, ca. 1900

[Masterpieces of Japan @JapanTraCul]

Birds on a Branch, by Watanabe Shotei, ca. 1887

[Masterpieces of Japan @JapanTraCul]

Plum Blossoms and Bamboo, by Yamamoto Baiitsu, 1835

[.stuff @vintagestuff4]

Fishboat on Moonlit Sea
Koho Shoda
1930

[.stuff @vintagestuff4]

Imao Keinen

[Masterpieces of Japan @JapanTraCul]

Frolicking Birds in Plum and Willow Trees, by Kano Sansetsu, 1631

[Alison Fisk @AlisonFisk]

Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend!

A tiny horse figurine carved from mammoth ivory about 40,000 years ago!

Imagine the #IceAge artist at work, sitting by the warmth of a fire, creating what is the world’s oldest known figure of a horse!

📷 by me

#Archaeology

[Masterpieces of Japan @JapanTraCul]

Kingfisher on Snowy Stump, by Ohara Koson, 1935

[Marysia @marysia_cc]

Mirko Hanak (1921-1971)
owl

[Alison Fisk @AlisonFisk]

Lovely naturalistic relief of a Hoopoe and an Ibis in a papyrus thicket, carved by an Egyptian artisan some 4,500 years ago!

Limestone wall relief from the 5th Dynasty mortuary temple of Userkaf at Saqqara. Egyptian Museum, Cairo 📷 by me

#ReliefWednesday
#Archaeology

[Art Encyclopedia @artenpedia]

Uehara Konen , Waves, Kojima Island 1890, Library of Congress

[Alejandro Navarro Yáñez @Alexny_85]

En Dinamarca, hace 3400 años, una mujer fue enterrada en un tronco de roble. Lo sorprendente es que la cuenta de vidrio azul encontrada a su lado…¡procedía del taller egipcio que suministró el vaso de cristal hallado en la tumba de Tutankamón, a más de 5000 km!

📷Science Nordic

[Plantagenet @Plantagenet1455]

Owl from the Book of Hours of the Earl of Ormond, English, 15th century.

[Masterpieces of Japan @JapanTraCul]

Ducks in the Rushes, by Watanabe Shotei, ca. 1887

[Guerra en la Universidad @GuerraenlaUni]

Es alucinante que para el siglo IV a.C. desde Portugal hasta la India se estuvieran usando escrituras derivadas del fenicio. Nos maravillan las conquistas de las armas, pero deberían maravillarnos más las conquistas de las letras.