#Decorative Art

[daughterofchaos]

Detail of Coupe à décor de marguerites et de hanneton by Henri Husson, ca. around 1909, copper and silver plating

Paris Musées

[disease]

TIFFANY STUDIOS | 'POND LILY' MIRROR PATINATED BRONZE, MIRRORED GLASS CIRCA 1910 — 19 3/4 x 15 3/4 x 10 3/4"

[alexdreamart]

Warframe fanart stylised after cinematics in The Sacrifice questline

[norapotwora]

Here's a commission of Church Grim with spider lillies!

The Church Grim is a mythical creature from English folklore, that is said to be a guardian spirit that protects churches and churchyards. It is believed to take the form of a large black dog, often with glowing eyes, and is said to be the spirit of the first person to be buried in the churchyard. The Church Grim is said to be a friendly and protective spirit, but can also be mischievous and even vengeful towards those who disrespect the church or disturb its peace. The belief in the Church Grim is still present in some rural areas of England, although it has largely faded from popular culture in modern times.

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldJellyfishDay 🪼:

A "Méduse" (#ellyfish) stoneware lamp foot

Designed by Joseph Mougin (France, 1876-1961)

H 46 cm

[solcattus]

Lute Player set in Cartouche with Putti

By Sebastian Lucius

[improbable-implosions]

Another multi-parter for both thighs across the main seam of a pair of jeans! This is a VERY common canvas for sashiko 'round this household, seeing as both Razz and I have pretty thorough thighs. Luckily, having learned my lesson (somewhat) from the giant patches in the same area I did previously, I split this into two designs, even if the patch fabric itself was one piece. Both designs are from wrenbirdart's stick and stitch collections, barring that little section on the first one I pencilled myself, as the main pattern was slightly too small.

First up we've got this genuinely delightful set of little asterisks, formed out of vertical, horizontal, and two diagonal sets of stitches. The first set of stitches immediately make clear that I really should be more careful about my math when I'm trying to duplicate the wrenbirdarts patterns onto my own dissolvable backing. Sure, that set all the way on the right is off by increasing increments of a quarter inch with each set, but I actually don't mind that look too badly in the end. The general look of all the eight-pointed overlapping crosses works super well, and I may take some inspiration from the mildly-fumbled pattern on that hand-pencilled section to make an alternating pattern of standard crosses and the asterisks, in the future.

Secondly, there's this pine forest design! I really had a love hate relationship with this one, as the pattern itself is SUPER pretty, I mean, look at that final picture! It's so beautiful! The major downside, though, is that it doesn't lend a lot of opportunities to load up straight stitches in a row. As you can kinda see in the progress shots, you do that central "coordinate grid" of a given pine top, then go quarter by quarter, filling in the other stitches, one by one, individually. Which, to me, is SUPER boring, I much prefer to load up a bunch of straight stitches in a row, then pull them all through, smoothing the fabric afterwards. So, partially because I wanted to get it done and over with as fast as possible, and partially because my jean shorts were in DIRE need of fast repairs before I could wear them in the (then incoming) summer heat, I somewhat sped my way through the pattern, in hopes that I can later come back to this pattern, and develop a more-loadable version that still keeps the pine-like beauty of the finished piece here.

[waldires]

Frame, design 16th century

[liturgical-agenda]

Symbolist triptych, 1887 by Clément Mère

[wormyorchids]

Calcium Ornament is up on my sh0p!

[uwmspeccoll]

Decorative Sunday

Michigan artist Pati Scobey (b. 1954) has always made prints that have a highly decorative but surreal quality. This can be seen in her 1986 color-linocut accordion book Mining of the Heart, printed in Madison, Wisconsin at Walter Tisdale's Landlocked Press. When this book was printed, Scobey had already received her MFA from UW-Madison in 1984 and Tisdale was still working on his BS there. Both were students of the infamous and legendary Walter Hamady and were part of one of the most remarkable cohort of art students to come out of Madison that also included Barbara Tetenbaum, Kathy Kuehn, Ruth Lingen, Jim Lee, and John Bennett, among others.

Our copy of Mining of the Heart is another donation from the estate of our late friend Dennis Bayuzick.

View other books from the estate of Dennis Bayuzick.

View more Decorative Sunday posts.

[daughterofchaos]

Bouillon Julien in Paris, France +

[disease]

“RITUAL FLAYING KNIFE” | C. 1407–10 SINO-TIBETAN | DERGE SCHOOL | YONGLE PERIOD [iron alloy with gold and silver inlay | H: 6 7/8”]

Ceremonial weaponry was used in tantric rituals to combat obstacles to enlightenment, such as ignorance and uncontrolled passions.

[alexdreamart]

I played through the newest quest in Warframe and I wanted to draw fanart for a while now. It took forever as I always draw lineart on max zoom focused on details that don't really matter hah. One thing about warframe quests that I adore is how much depth and focus on humanity is in most of them.

[charlesreeza]

The Cauchie House - Rue des Francs 5, 1040 Brussels

This Art Nouveau house was designed and built by the architect, painter, and designer Paul Cauchie and his wife, Lina, in 1905, the year they were married. It served as their private residence and workshop.

The house is only 6 meters (20 feet) wide. The facade was meant to advertise Cauchie's sgraffito artwork and Lina's art classes. Cauchie created hundreds of sgraffito murals in Belgium.

Photos by Charles Reeza, 2023

[cliozaur]

Guess whom I think about whenever I see snuffboxes from the 1830s?

And another Javert-coded thing from decorative art collection of Museum Narodovy in Cracow.