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Finding public domain art featuring faces or animals

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I wrote about @jesawyer Pentiment and how much it reminded me of a Lorenz Stöer's 16th c. surreal polyhedral woodcuts
https://t.co/EYSx6ieHpq

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Still Life with Monkey, Fruits, and Flowers (1724) by Jean Baptiste Oudry. From the Art Institute of Chicago
https://t.co/uA4uGElLba

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in this life I am a monkey reaching for a grape

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@DRIFTPRAIRIES a noble goal!!

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your armor doesn't have a big rooster head on the mask visor?? .....that's fine I guess

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From the Met. German, probably Augsburg, ca. 1530

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from the Met :)

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Alamito mortar in the shape of a feline, 700-400 BCE, Argentina

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from the Met

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little toad from Padua, Italy. he is hundreds of years old. what does he know?

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Ralph Wood the Younger
British, Burslem, Staffordshire
ca. 1780
from the Met

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they coordinated outfits...

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Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, ca. 1750
From the Met

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they're in deep conversation

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Left: Camelid figurine, Inca, 1400-1535 CE
Right: Parrot, Whieldon type, ca. 1750

Both from the Met :)

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Happy Monday everyone..which resonates with you more today?

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Fish Flask: Korea, Joseon dynasty, 15th century
Frog Vessel: Moche, 100 BCE - 500 CE

Both from the Art Institute of Chicago :)

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which aura resonates with you more: frog vessel or fish flask?

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from the Met :)

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Terracotta mask in the shape of a bat's, dog's, or fox's head.

Cypriot, ca. 600-480 BCE

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from the Met :)

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Ivory netsuke of rabbit, Japan, 19th century.

Netsukes were small sculptures that attached items like pipes or medicine boxes to a man's obi, or sash.