#steatite

[arthistoryanimalia]

Whale Effigy 🐳 Chumash (California, West Coast), c.1200-1600 Steatite, shell inlay, 7.1 x 9.5 cm Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 1950.51.Ab.9

[thatshowthingstarted]

Cosmetic Dish in the Form of an Oryx, Egyptian (c. 1550–1069 BCE),

Steatite, 3 inches x 5 1/4 inches x 1 1/4 inches,

Image courtesy the San Antonio Museum of Art archives

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Statue of a Crocodile with the Head of a Falcon.

Culture: Egyptian

Date: ca. 380-250 B.C.

Period: Late Period-early Ptolemaic Period; 30th Dynasty

Medium: Steatite

[blondebrainpowered]

Egyptian Revival Necklace and Brooch, Castellani, ca. 1860.

Gold, Steatite, Faience and Micro mosaic.

Photo Courtesy of Sotheby's.

[artifacts-archive]

Cosmetic Vessel of Meretnubt

Egyptian, ca. 1500 BCE (New Kingdom)

This small cosmetic vessel is carved with an openwork frieze of heraldic birds flanking a cartouche with the name "King's daughter, Nubet-meryt." Meretnubt was a daughter of King Thutmose I (1504-1492 BCE). Separating the two heraldic groups are two snakes flanking a column. Above the openwork frieze is carved a series of alternating open and closed lotus flowers which ring the neck of the vessel. The glaze is particularly green in appearance.

[occultclassicalart]

BW Edit after Egyptian artist of the Second Intermediate Period–Early New Kingdom (Dynasty 17–18, ca. 1635–1458 B.C.) (Scarab with seated griffin) (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Acc. 16.10.221)

[pollyj]

Cosmetic dish

Charsadda (Gandhara), 2nd century - 5th century

Pale grey steatite

Cosmetic dish decorated with a figure riding a water monster based on Roman representations of a Nereid riding a sea monster, but perhaps influenced by Indian conceptiions of the Makara - a creature like a crocodile.

[weekendviking]

Latest attac project: carved and engraved soapstone/steatite spindle whorl/

Shaped and rough polished: