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#TwoForTuesday :

Yoshiharu Kimura (Japan, b. 1934) Grey Birds, 1964 Color woodblock print Double oban, 37.2 x 62.9cm (image size) Edition 8/50

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Pigeons Get Pretty in This Historic, Illustrated Profile of Fancy Breeds

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Cosmic Birds Soar Through New York City Subway Stations in Fred Tomaselli’s New Mosaics

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For #WorldAnteaterDay :

The Great Anteater, Myrmecophaga jubata (now M. tridactyla) Plate XXX in Zoological Sketches by Joseph Wolf (1820-1899), V.1, London, 1861 Via Biodiversity Heritage Library

🚨The Giant Anteater is a threatened species, currently listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.

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For #WorldAnteaterDay :

Nicolás García Uriburu (Argentina, 1937-2016)

LE GRAND FOURMILIER, n.d. (before 1991)

Oil on canvas, 189 x 180 cm (74.4 x 70.9 in.)

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Resharing for #WorldAnteaterDay

Happy #WorldAnteaterDay!

From House of Fabergé menagerie, here is a diamond-eyed jasper anteater figure purchased by The Walters Art Museum founder Henry Walters on a trip to St. Petersburg in 1900. Now in the museum’s permanent collection.

Anteater

House of Fabergé (Russian, est. 1842) (Manufacturer)

Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920)

c. 1900

jasper, diamonds

The Walters Art Museum

"This tiny diamond-eyed anteater was purchased by Henry Walters, founder of the Walters Art Museum, on a trip to St. Petersburg in 1900. The House of Fabergé began making hardstone animals in the 1890s and they proved popular with their elite clients. Queen Alexandra (wife of the British King Edward VIl) built a large collection, and production peaked in the years immediately before the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.

Objects such as this anteater were inspired by Japanese netsuke. Carl Fabergé owned over 500 of these. He married this admiration of Asian art with the rich Russian tradition of hardstone carving. The anteater is unusual among Fabergé's menagerie, although examples in bloodstone and quartz are also known.”

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Resharing for #WorldAnteaterDay

It’s #WorldAnteaterDay so here’s Salvador Dali’s (1904-1989) anteater bookplate design c. 1930 for friend & Surrealist movement founder André Breton (1896-1966), whose nickname became “le tamanoir.” Bonus photo of Dali walking a Giant Anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) in Paris in 1969.

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#MetalMonday :

Lion Aquamanile, c.1200–1250

Germany, Lower Saxony, Hildesheim, Gothic period

Bronze: cast, chased, punched

26.4 x 29 x 15 cm (10 3/8 x 11 7/16 x 5 7/8 in.)

On display at The Cleveland Museum of Art 1972.167

“An aquamanile is a water vessel used for washing hands both at church altars and at the dinner tables of upper-class patrons. They often took the form of fantastic beasts such as dragons and unicorns or animals such as horses, birds, dogs, and lions, like this one.”

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Shiro Kasamatsu (笠松 紫浪 Kasamatsu Shirō) (Japan, 1898-1991) Pheasant, c.1970s-80s Woodblock print

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#Caturday 🐱:

Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903) Tête de Chat, 1884 Oil on canvas, laid down on board, 11.8 x 9.2cm (4 3/4 x 7 1/2 in) Private collection “Painted in 1884, Tête de chat is a tender portrait of a cat who looks calmly at the viewer, propped up on extended paws….The hint of a red ribbon around the subject's neck suggests an intimate relationship: this was perhaps a family pet or a frequent visitor to the Gauguin household.“ https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/seeger-cone-collection-l18320/lot.215.html

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For #FashionFriday :

Dressing gown (Saut de lit). Engraving by Gerda Wegener (Denmark, 1886-1940), Paris, Journal des Dames et des Modes, 20 July 1914 (no. 78). Chester Beatty Library WEp 0958

🆔 The model’s feathered friend - a perfect match for her gown! - is a Blue-and-Yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna).

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FrogFriday 🐸:

Carving of a frog, 700-800 CE Maya culture, Topoxte, Guatemala Shell & quartz, 21/8 x 23/4 x 1/4 in (6.7 X 7 x 0.4 cm) Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala From the exhibition “Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea”

“Originally part of a sumptuous burial offering from the island of Topoxte in Lake Yaxha, this shell carving portrays a smooth and nimble swimming frog, limbs in motion, with pale eyes of inlaid stones. Its captivating color and delicate pattern come from the natural appearance of the Oliva porphyria shell, which is found in the Pacific Ocean in southern Central America.“

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#TwoForTuesday / #TurtleTuesday :

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭 (Japan, 1786?-1868) Turtles and Sake Cup, c.1827-9 Woodblock surimono print; ink, color & metallic pigment on paper shikishiban; H 21.6 x W 19.3 cm (8 1/2 x 7 5/8 in) Harvard Art Museums 1933.4.1717

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TwoForTuesday :

Wilhelm Hunt Diederich (USA, born Hungary, 1884-1953) Fire Screen, Made in NY 1920-30 Wrought and sheet iron On display at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2007-62-1

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#TwoForTuesday :

Helmut Middendorf (Germany, b.1953)

Nashorn I, 1979 Synthetic resin paint on nettle fabric, 190 x 230 cm Sammlung Triebold, Rheinfelden

Nashorn-Grün II, 1979 Synthetic resin paint on canvas, 190 x 230 cm Private collection, Berlin

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FishFriday :

Akio Takamori (American, b. Japan, 1950-2017) Self-Portrait with Fish, 1982 Stoneware, 14-1/4 x 1-7/8 x 5 in (36.2 x 40.3 x 12.7 cm) on display at Palmer Museum of Art 2021.43

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#FishFriday :

Ernest Chaplet (France, 1835-1909) Entwined Fish and Eel, 1888-1909 Porcelain with sang de boeuf glaze Now on display at Philadelphia Museum of Art “Firing the Imagination: Japanese Intluence on French Ceramics, 1860-1910”