[desimonewayland]

Redman’s Metropolitan; an Auricula. Plate XVI. 1791

Engraved after an original by James Sowerby. From James Sowerby, ‘The Florist’s Delight’ No. III (London: 1791).

The RHS Lindley Library

[desimonewayland]

Frontispiece from Thomas Miller, ‘The Poetical Language of Flowers; or the Pilgrimage of Love’ (London: David Bogue, 1847).

The RHS Lindley Library

The language of flowers was a 19th-century code used to make bouquets which passed messages between lovers and suitors. Each flower was given its own meaning and they could be combined to create special messages. 

[myonlyheroisreality]

[cacharrofuckyeah]

[lickmyskinnylegs]

[sovietpostcards]

Aleksandra Schekatikhina-Pototskaya - artist, designer, and the third (and last) wife of Ivan Bilibin.

Pictured are a few examples of propaganda porcelain she designed in 1919-1921 in Petersburg.

[zinniafolkarts]

Avelino Perez bird carvings make nice last minute gifts… (at Zinnia Folk Arts, LLC) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bru3bLZF8gH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=wuh9e1d1trac

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪ Vase.

Factory: Wedgewood and Co.

Date: ca. 1780

Culture: British, Staffordshire

Medium: Black basalt

[deathandmysticism]

Hand of Sabazios, Alcuni monumenti del Museo Carrafa, 1877

[deathandmysticism]

Hand of Sabazios, Catalogue of the bronzes, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, 1899

[anne-sophie-tschiegg]

Antique Japanese Noh mask

[societyofghosts]

Early 1900s Real Photo Postcard, Trick-or-Treaters in masks

[alejandropasquale]

Espora ~ Oil on canvas 120x150cm-2015

[achasma]

“The mean of the sea”, “the cyclops” and “the sea bishop” by François Desprez, c. 1562-1564.

[magictransistor]

Robert Fludd. Frontispiece for Philosophiæ Moysaicæ. 1638. 

[achasma]

The Dragon Devouring the Companions of Cadmus (detail) by Hendrick Goltzius, 1588.

[deathandmysticism]

Illustrations of prophecy, particularly the evening and morning visions of Daniel, and the apocalyptical visions of John, 1840