#BEAD

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(1) Baby Bear Reading Statue, (2) Sun and Moon Bead Triangle, (3) Miniature Terrarium Guinea Pig Figurines, (4) Cat Incense Holder, (5) If you love me, don’t deceive me, (6) Four Leaf Clover Gold Plated Heart Charm, (7) Oval vintage floral painting, (8) Butterfly Brass Pocket Knife, (9) Miniature Clock Prop

[piizunn]

Colonizer Classics, 2024

Glass seed beads, beeswax, nylon

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Rosary Bead. Pendant, memento mori from a chaplet or rosary.

Date: ca. 1520-1530

Medium: Carved elephant ivory with traces of red and black paint.

[fishnapple]

Same characters, different players

[artifacts-archive]

Chimera (Bixie)

China, 1st century

Miniature depictions of animals began to appear in the middle of the Han dynasty. The perforation in the body of this solid gold chimera suggests that it was worn as a pendant or perhaps as one of several “beads.” Such ornaments are likely to have been inspired by small animal-shaped hardstone beads that were imported from South and Southeast Asia. Hardstone beads have been discovered in Han royal tombs in many Chinese provinces. They have also been excavated from contemporary sites along the coast of Vietnam and Thailand as well as in source countries including northern Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

[relaxingifs]

peachybbies on ig

[bonboony]

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[adam-trademark]

Bell Demon's Temple

(April 13, 2019)

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #Baturday, check out this fab little friend:

Ojime in the form of a bat Japan, late 19th century cast copper alloy (sentoku), H 2.3 x W 1.2 x D 1.4 cm Ashmolean Museum EA1956.3749

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[artifacts-archive]

Bead in the Form of an Animal Head Mixtec, Postclassic, general, 900-1520 CE

The coyote had a dual identity in the Aztec mind, one with rather more sinister implications. It was respected for being cunning, astute; in hunting it is quite as astute as a man. But it is in every way diabolic, exacting revenge for being thwarted in its pursuits, but also fair-minded, and could be grateful and appreciative by repaying an act of kindness with its own sort of generosity. It seems fitting that the greatest of all Aztec kings was named Fasting Coyote (Nezahualcoyotl in Nahuatl; ruled Texcoco ca. ad 1433–72). As his name implies, this king was astute and cunning, and a survivor as a long-term ally of his cousins, the rulers of Tenochtitlan. This small ornament may represent a coyote, and would call to mind the great fifteenth-century ruler.

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[perfectlyscentedturtle-7]

Little treasures of mine with a vintage twist!🗝🤎