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[polkadotmotmot]

Pei-Cheng Hsu - River No. 1, 2020

[frostedmagnolias]

Brooch

c. 1880-1890

gold, stone

by Heinrich Kohn, Auckland

Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa

[ankie]

[whitedogblog]

ankie:

Enamelled gold heart locket from the French Napoleonic era by Gabriel-Raoul Morel, Paris, circa 1815.

(James Robinson)

[folklorespring]

1. Embroidered rushnyk from Kyiv region, 19th century.

2. Embroidered rushnyk from Kharkiv region, 20th century.

National Museum of Decorative Arts of Ukraine.

[fe-li-ci-as-things]

Thierry Lechanteur

#art

[smsomah]

Daughter of Hussein Mohamed Saleh Jaffer. Hudaydah, Yemen, 1931. Carl Rathjens

[jackviolet]

Dress and kokoshnik of a Russian tsarevna (princess) prior to the 17th. c.

[kielovesi]

South Karelian rings from the 19th century (x)(x)

[lespalimpsestes]

Die Temperamentenrose (The rose of temperaments), an earlier study (1798/9) by Goethe and Schiller, matching twelve colours to human occupations or their character traits

[plumslices]

Antique Nephrite Jade 9ct Gold Dagger Pendant

[stunningpicture]

[kosmogrl]

on sisters

[lacetulle]

Almée Couture | Spirit of the Forgotten

[psikonauti]

Sueellen Ross (American, b.1941)

Shadow Play

Mixed media on canvas

[nihon-no-ningyou]

A set of chirimen rabbit dolls dressed in kimonos.

[annedebretagneduchesseensabots]

A  royal  bunny,  pearl  and  gold,  16th century

Wunderkammer,  The  Wallace Museum 

[enchantedbook]

'East of the Sun and West of the Moon' illustrated by Kay Nielsen, 1914.