art_history_animalia, 1 month ago to random For #SaveTheElephantDay on #TwoForTuesday 🐘🐘: Two #Elephants from Manafi al-Hayawan (Uses of Animals) by Ibn Bakhtīshūʻ (ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Jibrāʼīl), Maragheh, Iran, 1297-1300 (w/ 19th c. additions) The Morgan Library & Museum MS M.500 fol. 13r https://ica.themorgan.org/manuscript/page/7/77363
For #SaveTheElephantDay on #TwoForTuesday 🐘🐘: Two #Elephants from Manafi al-Hayawan (Uses of Animals) by Ibn Bakhtīshūʻ (ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Jibrāʼīl), Maragheh, Iran, 1297-1300 (w/ 19th c. additions) The Morgan Library & Museum MS M.500 fol. 13r https://ica.themorgan.org/manuscript/page/7/77363
art_history_animalia, 1 month ago to random For #SaveTheElephantDay on #TwoForTuesday 🐘🐘: Amrita Sher-Gil (Hungarian-Indian, 1913-1941) Two #Elephants, 1940 Oil on Canvas, 46cm X 54.3cm National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/two-elephants-amrita-sher-gil/ #WomenArtists
For #SaveTheElephantDay on #TwoForTuesday 🐘🐘: Amrita Sher-Gil (Hungarian-Indian, 1913-1941) Two #Elephants, 1940 Oil on Canvas, 46cm X 54.3cm National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/two-elephants-amrita-sher-gil/ #WomenArtists
art_history_animalia, 1 month ago to random For #SaveTheElephantDay on #TwoForTuesday 🐘🐘: Pair of Altar Candlesticks China, probably Guangzhou (Canton), 19th c. Gilt copper, cloisonné enamel, colored glass, stones; H 56 cm "were probably part of a Buddhist altar set, the elephant being the mount of Akshobya" The Khalili Collections: https://www.khalilicollections.org/collections/enamels-of-the-world/khalili-collections-enamels-of-the-world-pair-of-altar-candlesticks-ch920/
For #SaveTheElephantDay on #TwoForTuesday 🐘🐘: Pair of Altar Candlesticks China, probably Guangzhou (Canton), 19th c. Gilt copper, cloisonné enamel, colored glass, stones; H 56 cm "were probably part of a Buddhist altar set, the elephant being the mount of Akshobya" The Khalili Collections: https://www.khalilicollections.org/collections/enamels-of-the-world/khalili-collections-enamels-of-the-world-pair-of-altar-candlesticks-ch920/
art_history_animalia, 1 month ago to random For #SaveTheElephantDay on #TwoForTuesday 🐘🐘: Pair of Earrings in the Form of Dancing #Elephants India, Deccan, 19th c. Gold inlaid with rubies & sapphires 1 1/2 × 1 1/2 × 1/2 in. (3.81 × 3.81 × 1.27 cm) each LACMA M.86.49a-b: https://collections.lacma.org/node/252139 #IndianArt
For #SaveTheElephantDay on #TwoForTuesday 🐘🐘: Pair of Earrings in the Form of Dancing #Elephants India, Deccan, 19th c. Gold inlaid with rubies & sapphires 1 1/2 × 1 1/2 × 1/2 in. (3.81 × 3.81 × 1.27 cm) each LACMA M.86.49a-b: https://collections.lacma.org/node/252139 #IndianArt
art_history_animalia, 1 month ago to random For #SaveTheElephantDay on #TwoForTuesday 🐘🐘: #Elephant masks Bamiléké people (Cameroon) Blue cotton cloth, colored beads Red cotton cloth, glass beads Field Museum display #AfricanArt
For #SaveTheElephantDay on #TwoForTuesday 🐘🐘: #Elephant masks Bamiléké people (Cameroon) Blue cotton cloth, colored beads Red cotton cloth, glass beads Field Museum display #AfricanArt