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Etruscan, Ring with winged lion, siren, and flying scarab beetle, late 6th - early 5th century BC, Italy.

Illustration by Susie Esse.

Andrew Wyeth, Follia lunar, 1982.

“The bowl of wild roses. The English knives and forks. Greek cigarettes. The battered and sea-stained notebook in which I rough out my poems.”

Lawrence Durrel, from Prospero’s Cell: Reflections on a Marine Venus (1945)

Wishing everyone a magical holiday season.

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Duck-shaped Vessel made out of a single piece of rock crystal. Minoan or Mycenaean. Mycenae, Grave Circle B, Grave O, 16th century BC.

This object, found in Mycenae's Grave Circle B, was most likely used to store cosmetic cream.

The object has a handle in the shape of a ducks head on one end, and a spout on the other.

The details of the duck's head are remarkably anatomically accurate.

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Abiah Root dated September 26, 1845

Byzantine mosaics found on the ceiling of the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia in Ravenna, Italy.

These are a few of my favorite things 🎶

Henri Laurens, Head of a Young Girl, 1920

Burled hearts.

September, the bed we lie in between Summer and Autumn.

Charles Wright, from "A Journal of the Year of the Ox", The World of Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990

Living in the age of plastic.

Still life with flowers, vegetables, fruits and berries, Jette Stoltz , 1964-65.

Sweden, 1923-2010

Oil on cavas, 115 x 115 cm.

Mary Oliver, from "Starlings in Winter"

As we bid adieu to summer…

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