#museum visit

[leandervane]

Most visitors admired the great paintings.

I found myself returning repeatedly to an eighteenth-century travelling writing box.

It still bore faint scratches where someone had rested a pen.

It is strangely moving to remember that scholarship has always required very ordinary objects.

[arthistoryanimalia]

#TwoForTuesday :

Nose ornament with two scorpions

Moche culture, Loma Negra, Piura Valley, Piura Province, Peru; Early Intermediate Period, 500-700 CE

Gold & silver

On display at Princeton University Art Museum (2021-95)

[arthistoryanimalia]

#TilesOnTuesday :

“Winged porcine beast”

China, 6th or 7th c. (Northern Qi or Tang dynasty)

Earthenware w/ appliqué & glazed decoration

On display at Princeton University Art Museum (1996-289)

“These glazed, reddish earthenware tiles are molded into high-relief depictions of fantastic beasts…Comparisons with the designs of Northern Qi (550-577) stone-relief figures from the Xiangtangshan cave temples in Hebei province suggest a contemporaneous date; however, the tile's glazing technique is associated with the Tang dynasty. The tiles probably lined the walls or platform of a pagoda or tomb; at least twenty-four other tiles from the same set are known to survive.”

[fictional-men-ruin-lives]

Some scribbles after museum visit

[daughterofthelotusflower]

stained glass has always been something I loved. I find it so ethereal in its see-through blend of colours and shapes, so elegant and vibrant while resembling colourful water pouring down ✨️

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[daughterofthelotusflower]

Majolica vase and planter with baroque elements that absolutely took my breathe away. What gorgeous work of colour and texture, I wish I could have them in my home 🌸

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[arthistoryanimalia]

It’s #WorldParrotDay 🦜!

Vessel in the form of a parrot

Comala style, Colima, W. Mexico

Late Formative Period, 300 BCE - 400 CE

Ceramic w/ red slip

18.5 × 30.5 × 14 cm (7 5/16 × 12 × 5 1/2 in.)

On display @ Princeton University Art Museum (2016-1239)

[arthistoryanimalia]

#Caturday 🐱

Marion T. Gatrell (USA, 1909-1984)

Night Watch, 1950

Oil on Masonite

On display at Columbus Museum of Art’s Cats exhibition (1976.007)