Emotional Circus

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Giambattista Valli Spring 2024

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A stem cup from North China, late seventh or early eighth century. Silver with embossing, chasing, engraving and microscopic traces of gilding.

Credit…via Asia Society, New York

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Grand staircase of the Casino de Madrid in Spain

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From 1900

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Ziad Nakad Fall 2017-2018 Couture collection

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lwenx ‘holy sword and iris’ details

[taishou-kun]

Pair of spoons with tea leaf motif, silver - Model created in Japan to the Western market - circa 1895

Source : musée d'Orsay

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[gemma-antiqua]

Byzantine rock crystal phial capped with gold, dated to the 12th to 14th centuries. The phial would likely have been filled with perfumes or oils. Source: Timeline Auctions. 

[constanzarte]

La femme aux fleur, by Albert Joseph Pénot

[hildegardavon]

Cesare Lapini, 1848-1893

Psyche abandoned, n/d, alabaster, on a mottled brown marble base, 75 cm

Private Collection

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[venustapolis]

Cleopatra testing poisons on condemned prisoners (Alexandre Cabanel, 1887)

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Rene Lalique, c. 1900

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Vintage velvet purse

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@gothiccharmschool - If you haven't seen this, I feel like you should XD

[memories-of-ancients]

Ivory cosmetic box in the form of a duck, Egypt, 1500 - 1000 BC

from The Walters Art Museum

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