Utagawa Hiroshige - Fireworks at Ryōgoku (1858)
u/oldspice75 — 2 days ago
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Small dish (kozara) with fireworks. Japan, Edo period, mid-17th c. Porcelain with molding and underglaze blue (Hizen ware, Nabeshima type). Cleveland Museum of Art collection [3400x2653]
u/oldspice75 — 2 days ago
Eli Beliutin - Country Circle Dance (ca. 1942-1946)
u/oldspice75 — 3 days ago
Figurine with articulated legs thought to represent the ecstatic Oklasma dance connected to worship of Dionysus. Parthian empire, ca. 247 BC - 224 AD. Terracotta with traces of pigment. Fordham Museum of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Art [720x960]
u/oldspice75 — 3 days ago
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Female Satyr with Tambourine (ca. 1730)
u/oldspice75 — 5 days ago
Dancing satyr element for the game kottabos, which involved flinging wine sediment from the bottom of the cup at a target. Etruscan, ca. 470-450 BC. Bronze. Cleveland Museum of Art collection [3478x6096]
u/oldspice75 — 5 days ago
Ferdinand Hodler - The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten) (1896)
u/oldspice75 — 7 days ago
Standing figure. Chavín culture, Peru, ca. 900-200 BC. earthenware, cinnabar. Walters Art Museum collection [2252x4000] [OC]
u/oldspice75 — 7 days ago
John Singer Sargent - Brook and Meadow (ca. 1907)
u/oldspice75 — 9 days ago
Bowl by Ogata Kenzan depicting riverbank with bamboo and wild geese. Japan, early 18th c. Stoneware with pierced design and painted with slips under glaze and overglaze enamels and gold (Kyoto ware). Asia Society collection [920x920]
u/Then_Marionberry_259 — 9 days ago
Chimú Prisoner Textile, fragment of a wall hanging that was over 100 ft long. Chimú culture, central coast, Peru, ca. 1200-1290 AD. Cotton with red, ochre, green, and blue pigments. Princeton University Art Gallery collection [2626x3000] [see museum link in comments for detail pics]
u/Comfortable_Cut5796 — 11 days ago
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Vase with calla lillies. Rörstrand Factory, Sweden, ca. 1900-1903. Hard-paste porcelain. Metropolitan Museum of Art collection [480x600]
u/oldspice75 — 13 days ago
Stirrup-spout bottle with deer. Moche culture, Peru, ca. 500-800 AD. Ceramic with slip. Metropolitan Museum of Art collection [2252x4000] [OC]
u/Comfortable_Cut5796 — 15 days ago
Brocaded velvet cover with sunbursts. Istanbul or Bursa, Turkey, Ottoman period, 17th c. velvet, brocaded: silk, gilt- and silver-metal thread, and cotton. Cleveland Museum of Art collection [3585x5000]
u/HistoricalCarsFan — 14 days ago
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Georges Seurat - Artist at Work (Le Peintre au Travail) (ca. 1884) [3112x4096]
u/oldspice75 — 18 days ago
Ceramic paint box with sliding lid, with grip in the form of a genet [animal related to a mongoose], containing seven pigment cakes. Egypt, New Kingdom, dynasty 19-20, ca. 1302-1070 BC. RISD Museum collection [1324x855]
u/oldspice75 — 18 days ago