Showing posts with label works of art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label works of art. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Eros holding a Mask, 3rd century BC, Greece.

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Saturday, July 4, 2020

Fausta Vittoria Mengarini (1893-1952) ~ Medusa, bronze bas-relief medallion c1920

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Monday, April 3, 2017

Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1976) ....Soleil, 23 carat gold unknow date

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Saturday, January 28, 2017

ST Rita de Cascia...19th Spanish

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Saturday, November 19, 2016

Urn with Human Figure, Zapotec, Monte Alban, Mexico 300BCE-200CE

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Thursday, November 19, 2015

Etruscan art, III-II BC. AD perivisceral anatomical votive, terracotta, Italy, Lazio

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Sunday, May 27, 2012

Chamunda, the Horrific Destroyer of Evil...India... 10th–11th century

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This is a fragment of a full-length sculpture portraying the ferocious Hindu goddess Kali in the form of Chamunda, a...
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Works of Art ...Mambila... Standing Male Figure... Cameroon

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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Works of art....Japanese Carved Ivory Okimono... circa 1900

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An Unusually Large Japanese Carved Ivory Okimono of a Human Skull Entwined with snakes and rats Perhaps made by a particular workshop...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Works of Art.... Skull and Devil... Japan

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Ivory okimono of a scull (tokotsu) entwined with a serpent, Meiji period (1868 - 1912) worn by members of the underground dokudo (later...
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Monday, May 9, 2011

Works of Art.... Skull bowl...Tibet c 18/19c

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Works of Art.... Songye "Kifwebe" Mask

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  African masks will not make you invisible.  They neither hide, nor diguise, nor mask.  The gods that founded our earthly life in Africa ...
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Works of Art... Nkisi Nkondi

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Power figures from the Kongo 18th/19th Century The Kongo peoples live in southwestern Zaire and Angola. In a few traditional K...
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Sunday, October 24, 2010

Works of art.... headcrest...

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A Yoruba Egungun headcrest
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Works of Art...phallic amulet....

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Privately commissioned made in Italy circa 1950's
Monday, August 2, 2010

Works of Art...Moche pottery...Peru...100-800 AD

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The incredible detail in Moche ceramics could lend to the fact that they served as a sort of didactic model. Older generations coul...
Saturday, June 19, 2010

Works of art...Egypt...Cartonage women...Dynasty 22-24..

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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Works of art...Rampant Lions ..Vietnam Cham Period..

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Monday, March 1, 2010

Works of art.. Ashanti Bird

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Aquamanile... Aristotle Ridden by Phyllis

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Aquamanile: Aristotle Ridden by Phyllis, ca. 1400 Southern Netherlands or Eastern France (Lorraine) Bronze *An aquamanile is a vessel for po...