[theancientwayoflife]

~ Brazier in the Form of the Old God.

Place of origin: Teotihuacan, Mexico

Period: Early Classic period (250 B.C.–A.D. 600)

Date: ca. A.D. 400–500

Medium: Basalt

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Treasure of Boscoreale: Goblet with Skeletons

Date: 25 B.C-A.D. 50

Period: Imperial Period

Culture: Roman

Place of origin: Italy, Boscoreale (Villa de la Pisanella)

Medium: Silver

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Stater of Phalasarna with head of Artemis.

Culture: Greek

Period: Late Classical Period

Date: 350 B.C.

Mint: Crete, Phalasarna

Medium: Silver

[publicdomainreview]

Mid-16th-century print depicting a monkey holding a bound putto fending off two other winged putti, by “Master of the Die” from a series of tapestries made for Leo X. ⠀⁠ ⠀⁠ Featured in our post of highlights from The Met’s open access collections — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-selection-from-the-met-s-public-domain-collection-now-free-from-all-restrictions

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Tintype of a barefoot boy and his shaggy dog on a lazy summer day, c. 1860s

[bigspoopygurl]

N. C. Wyeth - The Bloody Angle (1912)

[publicdomainreview]

Victorian sexuality is often thought synonymous with prudishness, conjuring images of covered-up piano legs + ankle-length skirts. @drmatthewgreen uncovers a quite different scene in the sordid story of Holywell St, 19th-century London’s epicentre of smut https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-secret-history-of-holywell-street-home-to-victorian-london-s-dirty-book-trade

[fashionsfromhistory]

Sette

Designed by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (British)

c.1875

The MET (Accession Number: 1975.219a)

[fashionsfromhistory]

Wisteria Lamp

Tiffany and Co.

1903-1905

National Gallery of Victoria

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[theancientwayoflife]

~ Pasiphae or Europa with a Bull.

Culture: Coptic

Date: A.D. 6th-7th century C.E.

Period: Late Antique Period

Medium: Flax, wool

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Standard of Selket.

Date: 1076-723 B.C.

Period: Third Intermediate Period

Place of origin: Egypt

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Bottle with Animals and Plants.

Date: A.D. 4th-5th century 

Culture: Roman or Early Byzantine, Eastern Mediterranean

Period: Roman-Byzantine

Medium: Free-blown glass with wheel-cut decoration, pale bluish green.

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Pendant (Peishi) in the Form of a Dragon.

Place of origin: China

Place of origin: Late Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period

Date: 481-221 B.C.

Medium: Abraded jade

[librarycompany]

This #publishersbindingThursday we are admiring this wonderfully textured cloth grain and the very fitting gilt title decoration on the spine. It also has us wondering, when was the last time you sent someone a letter? Send us one! We’ll write you back!   

James Rees. Foot-prints of a letter-carrier; or, A history of the world’s correspondence.  Philadelphia:  J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1866.