Beauty in the apertures of pain

A 1st Century AD, Gold Bracelet (610g), from Pompeii. It depicts a two-headed snake with glass eyes holding a medallion of the goddess Diana.

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The magnified cornea of a dragonfly sits in the middle of a decorative book cover. Views of the microscopic world. 1851.

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Detail of Portrait of Princess Sibylle of Cleve, 1526, by Lucas Cranach the Elder  (1472-1553)

Lily Cole by John Akehurst for Vogue China March 2006

Stained glass window

Definatley my #coffee cups! These metal cups from the late 19th century are decorated with #skeletons, both adult and infant, representing the Danse Macabre, or the “Dance of Death.” As a memento mori, they remind drinkers of the shortness of life and the inevitability of death.

Nicholas Lecreux (attributed), Pair of Potpourri Vases, c. 1760, Belgium. Soft-paste porcelain with glaze.  Purchased with funds provided by Dr. and Mrs. George Boone and the Decorative Arts Council, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (http://www.lacma.org).

“(Scrimshaw) Busks are long, flat slices out of whalebone ribs or other whale parts that whaling crews decorated with carvings and then gave to their wives or sweethearts once they were back on land after a voyage. Busks were slipped into vertical pocket in ladies’ corsets to stiffen the garment.”

- “Scrimshaw Whale Busk, 19th century,” Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington.

Details from illuminated manuscripts. Getty Museum, 2018

details, marchesa fall 2020

galeries lafayette haussmann, paris france

Pomegranate in Silk & Goldwork by Mary Corbet

hand embroidery

~ Seven Plaques from Caskets. Date: A.D. 4th–5th century Place of origin: Egypt Medium: Bone

Door Details from Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers/Basilika Vierzehnheiligen, Bad Staffelstein, Bavaria, Germany (by Rainer Fritz)