#TwoForTuesday :
Ewer in the shape of a #fish and #shrimp
Vietnam, Tran-Le dynasties, 14th-15th c.
Stoneware with green glaze; molded & incised decoration
19.4 x 17 x 5.5 cm (7 5/8 x 6 11/16 x 2 3/16 in.)
On display at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
#TwoForTuesday + #TextileTuesday :
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston display
1 Gift cover (fukusa)
Japan, Meiji era, late 19th - early 20th c.
Silk satin embroidered w/silk & metallic threads
2 Oscar de la Renta (American, b. Dominican Republic, 1932-2014)
Woman's ensemble in 3 parts, 1980s #BirdsInArt
#TwoForTuesday + #TilesOnTuesday:
2 of 120 lifesize #lions that lined the Processional Way from the Ishtar Gate to the Temple of Marduk at Babylon.
Striding Lion Panels
Mesopotamian, Babylonian Neo-Babylonian Period, reign of Nebuchadnezzar II 604–561 BCE
Findspot: Iraq, Babylon, 1899, excavated by the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft for the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin
Terracotta glazed bricks
#TwoForTuesday + #TilesOnTuesday :
Joseph-Théodore Deck (French, 1823-1891)
Tile Plaques, c.1880
Earthenware w/ underglaze & overglaze enamel decoration
tiles 10 x 10 in (25.4 x 25.4 cm) ea.
panels 40 x 20 in (101.6 x 50.8 cm) ea.
On view at PMA #birdsinart
The vibrant turquoise blue in these works was one of the signature glazes developed by Deck, who was inspired by Turkish ceramics. It came to be so closely identified with the artist that it came to be known in the late 1800s as ‘Deck blue.’”
#TwoForTuesday:
Two Standing, Braying #Camels, One Buff, One White, Their Backs Laden with Goods
Chinese, Northern Qi dynasty, 550-77 CE
earthenware
2003.193.1: H. 35 x W. 27.5 x D. 16.5 cm (13 3/4 x 10 13/16 x 6 1/2 in.)
2003.193.2: H. 33.5 x W. 25 x D. 19.5 cm (13 3/16 x 9 13/16 x 7 11/16 in.)
on display at Harvard Art Museums 2003.193.1-2
#TwoForTuesday:
Pair of Jade #Tigers
China, Zhou Dynasty, Warring States or Western Han period, 3rd century BCE
nephrite, L. 19.1 x H. 8.8 x T. 0.5 cm (7 1/2 x 3 7/16 x 3/16 in.)
on display at Harvard Art Museums 1943.50.469 A, B #ChineseArt