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[museeguimet-blog]

Inro with mother-of-pearl inlay.  18th or early 19th century, Japan Époque Edo (1603-1868) bois, laque, nacre, or Japon

© RMN-Grand Palais (musée Guimet, Paris) / Thierry Ollivier

Section Japon du musée Guimet

[historical-nonfiction]

A beautiful coffee cup and saucer, made to look like a water lily and its lily pad. And a visiting butterfly. Crafted from porcelain, it is hand-painted and hand-gilded.

Made by the Moore Brothers, in England, circa 1880.

[thingsfromthedirt]

[joeinct]

Russıan kokoshnik, Photographer Unidentified, c. 1910–15

“One of various styles of kokoshnik—a traditional headdress worn by married Russian women.”

[delicatuscii-wasbella102]

A cloisonné enamel vase with butterflies Meiji period, late 19th century

[along-the-silkroad]

Armenian Gospel with silver cover manuscript, 13th century; cover: dated 1691. MET (ID: 16.99) These jeweled, enameled, and gilt-silver repoussé covers for a gospel are examples of the work produced in the late seventeenth-century Armenian silversmith workshop of Kayseri. Both front and back cover are signed, informing us that they were made in Kayseri in 1691 by Astuatsatur Shahamir. The central image on the front cover depicts the Adoration of the Shepherds, and above, the magi following the star. Amid angels, the banner in the sky proclaims, "Glory to God in the highest and on Earth peace." The same composition of shepherds appears on two sets of gospel covers made in Kayseri by M. Karapet Malkhas, one dated 1671 (Mekhitarist Library, Vienna, MS 416) and the other dated 1691 (present location unknown). On the back is the Resurrection, showing Christ in a mandorla holding a bannered cross, surrounded by baroque cherubs and clouds. The green velvet spine is decorated with six garnets and numerous glass or crystal gems arranged in a diamond pattern. These covers were attached to a gospel copied and illuminated by a thirteenth-century scribe named Grigor, possibly from Cilicia. (MET)

[argonavta]

Greco-Roman curse doll

2nd century CE

[velvetmasonry]

Textile Fragment with Unicorn, Deer, Centaur and Lion, Scandinavian, c. 1500

[metmuseum]

Cap. ca. 1813. Credit line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Louis Loughlin, 1948 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/157606

[escapismsworld]

The Three Graces

Marble relief carving

Late 16th/ early 17th century

Italian

[frostedmagnolias]

Brooch

19th century

shell and gold

unknown maker, Italian

RISD Museum

[memories-of-ancients]

Axe, Turkish, 14th - 15th century

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[diabolicjoy]

Bracelet owned by Charlotte Brontë made from Emily & Anne’s hair.

[victoriantomodern]

Sword blades, Mycenae, 1570-1500 BCE, gold inlay on bronze, Ethnikon Archaiologikon Mouseion. From the Visual Arts Legacy Collection (JSTOR)

[mosertone]

Large antique hand-carved wooden trompe l’oeil panel from a horse-drawn hearse, c. late 19th century. Salvaged from a Victorian funeral carriage.

the final curtain

[theinternetarchive]

wall tile with lotus flower, iran c. 1300-50.

[pwlanier]

Umbilical cord scissors in the shape of a heron, around 1800

Silver, exemption punch: emergency stamp from 1809-10, cunning control sign, total weight approx. 58.9 g

Dorotheum