#TwoForTuesday:
Rabbit Tureens, c.1755
Chelsea Porcelain Factory, London, England
Soft-paste porcelain with enamel-painted decoration
On display at Winterthur’s Campbell Collection of Soup Tureens 96.4.2,3
“Figures of rabbits and hares were popular ceramic ornaments, but tureens in the form of life-size rabbits appear to be peculiar to the Chelsea factory.”
#TurtleTuesday🐢:
Tureen in the form of a sea turtle
probably Birmingham, England, c.1830
Fused silver plate, L 16½ in (419 mm) x W 17¼ in (235 mm) x H 9¾ in (248 mm)
On display at Winterthur’s Campbell Collection of Soup Tureens 96.4.54
“One of four presently known, this tureen's form demonstrates the popularity of green turtle soup, although by no means were the contents of the tureen restricted. The use of silver plate for such a grandiose form is unusual; most metal tureens were made of silver.”
John Leech (English, 1817-1864) Back View of the Elephant at the Regent’s Park Zoological Gardens, n.d. Watercolor & pen & brown ink, over graphite, on cream wove paper, 10.9 × 8.7 cm (4 5/16 × 3 7/16 in.) The Art Institute of Chicago 1940.891.6
#ManuscriptMonday + #MedievalMonday :
#WorldPorcupineDay :
William De Morgan (English, 1839-1917)
Triple Lustre Tile decorated in the “Porcupine” design, 1898
Earthenware, 15.3 x 15.3 cm
Provenance: “Purchased by the Earl of Balfour (UK Prime Minister 1902 - 1905) directly from William De Morgan, thence by descent.”
#FrogFriday 🐸:
Arthur Rackham (English, 1867-1939)
Aesop's Fables: King Log, 1912
Drawing, pen & ink with watercolor
William De Morgan (English, 1839-1917) Blackbird Bottle, 1888-1907 Tin-glazed Earthenware Diameter 254 mm, Height 508 mm De Morgan Foundation C_WDM_0136
19th c. Staffordshire pottery giraffes from Portland Museum of Art:
For #WorldDugongDay:
Plate 23 in John Edward Gray’s Illustrations of Indian Zoology, V. 2, 1833-4. "Indian Dugong, Halicora Dugung" (now Dugong, Dugong dugon). Hand-colored lithograph of an original illustration by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (English, 1807-1894).
So this is what pugs looked like in the late 18th / early 19th century…
Richard Ramsay Reinagle (English, 1775-1862)
Pug, n.d.
oil on canvas
AKC Museum of the Dog collection
For #ManuscriptMonday / #MedievalMonday : a #walrus, I guess 😂
Cambridge University Library Kk.4.25 (Didactic miscellany, containing a Mbestiary and other texts), f. 89r England, c.1230
Happy #NarwhalDay!
A Narwhal (Monodon monoceros) tusk is the upper left canine tooth that grows through the lip. Sometimes, the right one does the same, resulting in a 2-tusked individual, as illustrated by English naturalist George Shaw (1751 – 1813):
Bonus: Found a photo I took of a real double-tusked #narwhal skull that was on display at the Smithsonian NMNH :
#WatercolorWednesday: English naturalist George Edwards was born #OTD (3 Apr 1694 – 23 Jul 1773).
Atlas Moth & Hercules Beetle, c.1758
Watercolor w/ gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, each 9×11.1in (22.9×28.3cm)
Yale Center for British Art B1975.3.462,4
#MetalMonday:
Ostrich egg ewer
England (London), c.1675
Ostrich egg with silver gilt mounts
27.5 x 22.2 x 13cm (10 13/16 x 8 3/4 x 5 1/8in.)
On view at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
#InternationalPolarBearDay:
Fabric Sample Beith, Stevenson & Co, Manchester, 1911 printed cotton, W 65.4cm x L 76.2cm Victoria and Albert Museum T.304-2002
For #AppreciateADragonDay on #TilesOnTuesday:
Tile painted with four green lizards [and dragonflies], c. 1900 painter: Truus Nienhuis, Netherlands mark: ‘Craven Dunnill & Co., Shropshire, England’ earthenware tile, h 15.3 × w 15.3 × d 1.0 cm Rijksmuseum BK-1978-6
#FishFriday vs #FrogFriday in a medieval bestiary:
Bodleian Libraries MS. Bodley 764, folio 54v England, c 1225-50
