We who heart peacocks

We Who ♥ Peacocks is a group effort of hopefully obvious aspiration. We hope you can find some beauty here. We try to credit for each image we post, but sometimes things fall through the cracks; if you see an image of yours here which is either incorrectly credited or floating about with no credit at all, please contact us. If you want to spread the word, a little recommendation goes a long way. We also accept submissions here.

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Detail of Gallenga hand-stenciled shawl, c.1920.

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Czech seccession exhibition poster by Jan Preisler, 1904.  The poster depicts the symbolic white peacock, its tail bearing the three shields representing art, sculpture and architecture.

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Detail of Indian Kalamkari, 19th century.

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Tile from the Adamson House in Malibu, California, built in 1930.

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Rock Garden, an etching by George Marples.

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Detail from an Oriental polychromed 4 fold screen with carved peacock design (19th Cent.)

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Bookplate of Josephine E. S. Porter with motto 'Praeterit enim figura hujus mundi;'

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Kimono detail.

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centuriespast:

  Lazzaro Tavarone Italian, 1556-1641

Study for Juno (or Diana) with a Peacock, 1584/85

Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, on ivory laid paper, squared in black chalk

Art Institute of Chicago

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India, late 19th century A Ganesha riding on a Nandi (sacred cow) opposite various Hindu dieties riding on a peacock. Applique and embroidery on felted wool with with a silk tasseled border.

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Detail from Peacocks, 1683 by Melchior d' Hondecoeter

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oldbookillustrations:

William Strang, frontispiece from The surprising adventures of Baron Munchausen, by Rudolf Erich Raspe, London, 1895.

(Source: archive.org)