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Etymologically speaking you should find goose served in a smorgasbord. Goose has a pretty straight forward history, from Old English gos, Proto-Germanic *gans-, and Proto-Indo-European *ghans- meaning “goose, swan” and is probably imitative of the honking sound the bird makes. Unsurprisingly Swedish has the word gås “goose”. What is more surprising is the Swedish compound word smörgås, which is literally “butter-goose” but is used to mean “slice of bread with butter”. The first element smör, related to English smear, is Swedish for “butter” and in this context gås means “lump of butter” by way of comparison to goose fat. Smörgåsbord then, with bord (related to English board) meaning “table”, came to refer to food served buffet-style, and entered English as smorgasbord eventually gaining the figurative sense of “medley, miscellany”.
Today is Goose Day when geese are often eaten for Michaelmas, so the #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is GOOSE/SMORGASBORD #wotd #goose #smorgasbord #gooseday #Michaelmas
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Important #Gooseday update: bsky.app/profile/jent...
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Impressionist painting of a white goose standing on a grassy shore with taller plants, in front of a lake with two ducks swimming behind it
For #GooseDay 🪿:
Berthe Morisot (France, 1841-1895)
The #Goose, 1885
oil on canvas
private collection
www.wikiart.org/en/berthe-mo...
#BirdsInArt #WomenArtists
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official museum photo of the object on grey background, side profile 1: incense burner in the form of a sitting goose with neck outstretched, bronze with green patina “This incense burner is an extremely rare example of an imperially-commissioned bronze from the early Ming dynasty. Cleverly designed so that the fragrant incense is exhaled from the bird’s open beak, the censer artfully combines naturalism, ornamental detail, and a sense of history as it references similar incense burners first created during the Han dynasty (206 BC–AD 220) and revived during the Song (960–1279) and Yuan (1271–1368) dynasties. These earlier examples are typically simpler and less animated. The massive size, lively form, and meticulous details of the current work perfectly demonstrate the new taste and high standards of the early Ming period, when the imperial art patronage reached a new peak.”
official museum photo of the object on grey background, side profile 2: incense burner in the form of a sitting goose with neck outstretched, bronze with green patina
For #GooseDay 🪿:
Incense burner in the form of a #goose
China, Ming dynasty, early 15th c.
Bronze, H. 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm); W. 18 3/4 in. (47 6 cm)
Met 2020.335ab www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#BirdsInArt #ChineseArt
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Oil painting in portrait orientation, depiction of a row of white geese walking through a green landscape, impressionistic style “A decisive step on mastering atmospheric effects was taken by Kiriak Kostandi, representative of the Society of South-Russian Artists founded by Odesa painters in 1890. He abandoned the monochrome colour gamut of the Peredvizhniki in favour of the bright painterly idiom in which the sunlight with its rich colour reflexes became the determinative factor.”
For #GooseDay 🪿:
Kyriak Kostandi (Ukrainian, 1852-1921)
#Geese, 1913
Oil on canvas, h 45,5, w 35,8
National Art Museum of Ukraine
artsandculture.google.com/asset/geese-...
#BirdsInArt
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