#[metalwork]

[rick-roller]

Sooo many... those people appear to be washing chainmail? I only hope it's knitted using the armor stitch, or properly treated. At least their armor is shining! You know how passionate I am about fabrics...

peter_alexander_mameli

[lionofchaeronea]

Rhyton (silver with mercury gilding and glass inlays) in the shape of a woman and water buffalo, from the Sasanian Persian Empire. Artist unknown; 7th century AD/CE. Now in the Cleveland Museum of Art.

[thesilicontribesman]

Iron Age Decorated Silver Bracelets, The British Museum, London

[arthistoryanimalia]

#MetalMonday:

Ritual Wine Vessel (gong) in the Shape of a #Ram 青銅羊觥

China, Yangzi River region, Late Shang Dynasty 1200s–1000s BCE

Bronze, 22 cm (8 11/16 in.)

On display at The Cleveland Museum of Art

Xike Jiulu Private Collection 3.2023

“Ancient bronze vessels in animal form are rare. This bronze is exceptional in its naturalistic sculptural quality and fully embellished surface that includes fantastic animals, tigers, birds, and a diamond-shaped mark on the ram's forehead. Bronzes comparable in style were excavated in the Yangzi River region and are believed to have been cast in the south. The ram is a stellar example of the region's sophisticated bronze production.”

“Did You Know?

While the craftsman embellished the vessel with fantastic forms and symbolic patterns, the design also captures anatomical features of a real ram, such as its "comma"-shaped nostrils, eyes with elongated orbits, and horns with parallel ridges.”

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/3.2023

[miamaimania]

"Bound" by Young Deok Seo

[ghw-archive]

Wedding cabinet with butterfly motifs. Korea, 18th century

[rosieandthemoon]

Sculpture by Ann Harrington

[itscolossal]

Barbed Wire, Chains, and Shears Cleave Through Delicate Pottery in Glen Taylor’s Profound Sculptures

[koenji]

victorian 9ct gold heart lockets. (png)

[tanuki-kimono]

Intricate metalwork for this modern silver netsuke by Hanagesho depicting a moon rabbit. Folded inside is the decorated auspicious kanji 喜.

Happy Tsukimi/harvest moon festival guys 🐰🎑🌕

[the-forest-library]

Sun and Moon Window Details - Cesky Krumlov

[artschoolglasses]

Pair of Earrings, German, 1820-30

From the Victoria & Albert Museum

[lionofchaeronea]

Bronze head of a goat. Artist unknown; 3rd-1st cent. BCE (Hellenistic period). Now in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Photo credit: Cleveland Museum of Art.

[thesilicontribesman]

The Kingston Anglo-Saxon Brooch, The World Museum, Liverpool

[arthistoryanimalia]

#TwoForTuesday:

Lizard ear ornaments

Moche: Trujillo, La Libertad, Peru, 1-800 CE

Gold, conch shell, turquoise

H 78 x L 84 x W 78 mm; 53 g

“This is a pair of ear ornaments representing lizards. Lizards were considered animals that connect the beach and the dry forests.

Ear ornaments have been one of the most significant ornaments to distinguish elite personages in the Andes.“

Museo Larco ML100784,85

[miamaimania]

“'Til Death Do Us Part” By Kate Bauman