#met museum

[blondebrainpowered]

Lover's Eye Bracelet - ca. 1860, probably British, watercolor on ivory set in a gold bracelet.

[trilium]

Velvet brocade purse, Northern European, late 15th century. From The Cloisters Collection, 1952.

[thedarlingfawn]

The Met’s “Costume Art” exhibit

[romegreeceart]

Morgan amber

* Etruscan fibula - a woman and a youth reclining

* c. 500 BCE

* Falconara Maritima (Ancona)

* MET museum

source:

Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

[vintage-treasures]

Dancing Ganesha, Red Sandstone (ca. 10th century) A ten-armed sculpture of the Hindu god Ganesha captures him in a playful dance (nritta). Created under the Kalacuri dynasty in Madhya Pradesh, India, the figure is adorned with attributes that reference his father, Shiva, including two snakes, one as a sacred thread across his chest. As the Remover of Obstacles, the red sandstone figure was intended for a temple niche to clear the path between the worshipper and the divine while bestowing prosperity. Loc. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Dim. 91.4 cm H x 50.8 cm W (36 x 20 in.).

[velvetmasonry]

Chest c. 1780 (American)

[fox-teeth]

Life drawings from the Met Museum's recently closed Divine Egypt exhibition.

To no one's surprise I loved this one so much I went four times and bought the catalogue.

[treasuresfromthearchives]

Double Shabti of Benermerut and His Mother, Ikhem

New Kingdom

ca. 1479–1425 B.C.