Painting by Emma May Riley,
‘Glass of Water’ 2013.
Oil on Canvas.
Size 23.6 W × 35.4 H

A coloured pencil drawing of a wading bird. I made some of the colouring up and am now living in fear of wading bird experts.

Wader

This 1906 postcard provides a clever, minimalist representation of the Japanese postal service during the late Meiji era. The composition is dominated by a bold, red stylized "T" with a horizontal bar, the official symbol for Japan’s Ministry of Communications and its postal system. A postal worker, rendered in a simplified silhouette, is depicted mid-stride as if passing through the symbol itself, clutching a letter and emphasizing the speed and reliability of the mail. The card is further authenticated by a blue postage stamp and a celebratory purple commemorative cancel dated April 30, 1906, marking the "Military Review" of the previous year.

Illustration. Japanese postal service, year 1905

My photo shows a tall Roman drinking cup made of very pale green, slightly cloudy glass. The surface is decorated with thin, trailed-on threads of blue and white glass that wind around the cup, giving it a raised, textured, pattern. This type of glass decoration is known as ‘snake-thread’. The cup narrows slightly at the bottom and stands on a small, rounded foot, like a pedestal. It looks similar to an ice-cream sundae glass or ornamental vase. This cup and many other glass vessels made in the Roman provinces, have been found in ‘princely’ burials at the Himlingøje Necropolis, dated to Denmark’s Late Roman Iron Age. The site is known for its rich Roman imports, indicating close relations with the Roman empire.

This 1,800 year-old Roman glass cup is so well preserved that the railway construction worker who found it in the 1800s used it as a flower vase not realising its age!
💐 😲

From Himlingøje, Denmark. National Museum of Denmark 📷 by me

#Archaeology

jumping at dots

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#upstairsdownstairs

Sourdough bread loaf like Jabba the Hutt

Sourdough bread loaf like Jabba the Hutt

Sourdough bread loaf like Jabba the Hutt

Sourdough bread loaf like Jabba the Hutt

With #MayThe4th coming up, I baked this #sourdough travesty.

I present to you, 🍞 Jabba the Loaf 🍞

Also known as, how I look after eating too much #bread.

Recipe from "Sourdough by Science." Asiago, chives, basil, rosemary. Eyes are red pepper & raisin.

#baking #jabba #starwars #scifi #fantasy

A loose line drawing in ink of a Blue-footed Booby balancing on a stony, one foot raised.

A whimsical Blue-footed Booby. #InkAndWash #Watercolor #BirdArt #ArtYear

Tree images featuring watercolours of stylised trees

A rare series of watercolors by Hilma af Klint, The Tree of Knowledge was created c.1913-15 #WomensArt

Madonna of the Cotton Fields by Laura Knight: the painter who turned segregation into sacred iconography

Madonna of the Cotton Fields by Laura Knight: the painter who turned segregation into sacred iconography

Und wieder…

I'm always a little torn about the beauty of the architecture in Perú, because much of it is from devastating colonisation. Yes, it's incredibly beautiful. And yes, it has an oppressive origin. #architecture #monochrome #photography #travelphotography #plazadearmas #Arequipa #Perú

Hamletpause - Beton in Leinwand, fflepp 2013

Unseren täglich Frank Lepold gib uns heute …

„Hamletpause“, Beton in Leinwand http://franklepold.d (© fflepp 2013)

#inmemoriamfflepp

Everyday beauty

Habe mich aufgehoben gefühlt.

liebevoll sortiert

Zuständigkeiten

Ein kleiner Schritt.

Besuche gern Kirchen. Basilika Vierzehnheiligen in Oberfranken, die trotz der Pracht auf mich irgendwie gemütlich wirkte, glaubt man kaum.

Und dort gibt es noch mehr zu sehen. Wenn ich wieder in die Gegend komme, werde ich definitiv noch anderes anschauen.

Das war das Bild, das so begeisterte. Anna und Maria. Ich hoffe dass das Reklame für das Museum macht.

Spitzweg hat auf Zigarrenkistenholzplatten gemalt. Ganz bezaubernd der Blick durch das Teleskop. Ein besseres Foto war nicht möglich, ok, aber es war auch so nicht einfach anzuschauen.

Aber sonst sehr beeindruckend. Spitzwegs, Caspar Davis Friedrichs, Lovis Corinths u.v.a. mehr. Aktuell eine Dürer Ausstellung. Haderte ein bisschen mit den Lichtverhältnissen, den Farben, aber coole Angestellte, die das Ausgestellte wirklich mögen. Auf Besonderheiten aufmerksam machen.

Ja, war ein bisschen unheimlich.

Ja, habe einen Halt eingelegt, um ein Museum dort anzuschauen.

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#upstairsdownstairs

Sorry, @kaot50.bsky.social , erwartete soviel Reaktion nicht. Hoffentlich kommen nur die reposts bei Dir an. Wollte wirklich nur grüßen.

The colour of that rubber on Pete's old garden sink in morning light. #spring #shadows He died years ago.

Titolo: Sole autunnale👨‍🎨 Autore: Egon Schiele 🕰️ Anno: 1912
🏛 Ubicazione: Collezione privata

Schiele riduce, concentra, distilla. Con pochi tratti nervosi costruisce un’autobiografia della stagione: la caducità, la bellezza che declina, la ciclicità del tempo che si piega come un ramo sotto il vento.

Keel-billed Toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus) in Costa Rica. Photo taken by Florian Kuster. #KeelBilledToucan #toucan #bird #costarica #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #birds #centralamerica #americas #bsky