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[paulcirigliano]

[miamaimania]

“Swiss Knife Beetle” ✚ Victorinox Coleoptera

[curatorofthisdigitalmorass]

[emapisu]

[atomic-chronoscaph]

The Metamorphosis - art by Richard Taylor (c. 1947)

[frostedmagnolias]

Mourning Ring

c. 1770-1830

Gold, jet, glass, hair

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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[grupaok]

Suzan Pitt working on the miniature theater set, with an audience of clay figures, from her animated film Asparagus, 1979

[dozydawn]

love tokens engraved with florrie, florry, & flossie: diminutives of florence.

[frostedmagnolias]

Leaf Ring

c. 1900

by René Lalique

Musée des Arts Décoratifs

[frostedmagnolias]

Venetian Carnivale Poison Ring

c. 1760

gold, enamel, garnets, rose diamonds

maker unknown, Vienna, Austria

Powerhouse Collection

[wildoute]

[lisamarie-vee]

[speciesbarocus]

Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry (c. 1412).

> Illuminators: The Limbourg brothers.

[japaneseaesthetics]

A Bronze Koro [Incense Burner]  Muromachi-Momoyama period (16th century) , Japan Cast in two sections and hinged, as a long eared hare looking upward with a bell around its neck 17cm. high .  Christie’s

[aestheticology]

[cosmonautroger]

Wonder Woman