Hey, you know that phrase "yer jaiket's on a shoogly peg"?
Aye, when something's unstable or insecure.
I have an alternative. "Sitting on a particularly chatty giraffe's ossicone."
No mate.
But...
No.
(In other news, TIL that a giraffe's horn isn't a horn at all, but an ossicone; a protuberance composed of ossified cartilage covered by skin and hair. So never let it be said I only post nonsense. Just mostly nonsense.)
#ManuscriptMonday:
Ambassadors of the Egyptian Sultan al-Nasir Faraj ibn Barquq Present their Gifts of Tribute, Including a #Giraffe, to Timur in 1404.
illustration from Zafarnama by Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdishiraz, 1436
Worcester Art Museum 1935.26 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ambassadors_of_the_Egyptian_Sultan_al-Nasir_Faraj_ibn_Barquq_Present_their_Gifts_of_Tribute,_Including_a_Giraffe,_to_Timur,_illustration_from_Zafarnama_of_Sharaf_al-Din_Ali_Yazdishiraz,_1436.jpg
#TextileTuesday: 18th c. French bed hanging - lots of cool fantastical #birds & #dragons but check out the neat trio of #rhino#elephant & #camel in the center! Also a bonus cameleopard (#giraffe ).
On display at “Making Her Mark: A History of #WomenArtists in Europe, 1400-1800” exhibition at Baltimore Museum of Art