#The Ashmolean Museum

[innervoiceartblog]

The image shown is Anna Alma-Tadema’s Girl in a Bonnet with Her Head on a Blue Pillow, 1902, watercolor and bodycolor with some graphite on board, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Image © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.

[cupofmeat]

Green-glazed jar, 701–800 CE, China. Earthenware with green glaze.

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[michael-svetbird]

WHITE-GROUND LEKYTHOS WITH ATHENA: A hidden gem concealed amongst other vessels exhibited in Ashmolean Museum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-ground_technique "The characteristic white background of the lekythos was perhaps intended to evoke ivory." [txt ©AM] Attica 5 BC.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford | AM [Ground fl., "The Greek World"]

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[7pleiades7]

Acme and Septimius (c. 1868) by Sir Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, PRA (British, 1830-1896), oil on canvas, diameter: 99 cm, The Ashmolean Museum of Art, Oxford

[thesilicontribesman]

20 Rim Fragments from a Decorated Bronze Tray. A row of small bronze water birds decorate the tray rim and pendants hang below, 800-600 BCE. Lezoux, Puy de-Dôme, France. Probably part of a wheeled tray or wagon, similar to the one from Lucera, Italy.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

[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

[barbucomedie]

Bronze Helmet from Greece dated between 1400-1300 on display at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England

This rare bronze helmet from the Aegean area of mainland Greece and the Greek islands has intricate punched decorations of bands of crescents, imitating the appearance fo boars' tuck helmets. These featured sections of tusks attached to a leather base and are often shown in Aegean art. The Greek poet Homer tells us Odysseus wore a helmet of leather, strengthened with boars' tusks, during the Trojan War (Illian 10, 260-264).

Real boars' tusk helmets have been found in tombs at Mycenae in the Peloponnese area of Greece and other Aegena sites of the Late Bronze age (1600-1200 BCE). The only close parallel to this bronze helmet was discovered by Sinclair Hood during excavations of a grave near the palace of Knossus on the Island of Crete, and dated to about 1450 BCE.

Photographs taken by myself 2019

[mirellabruno]

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901) “La toilette (Celle qui se peigne)”, 1891 Ashmolean Museum.

[victorian-wizard]

I saw some Strads today in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the Messiah Stradivarius was there and I took a picture but I can’t find it on my camera.

[athenassideblog]

We were in Oxford that Sunday, long slow walks, plenty of rest stops

A's face golden in the sun, the amber silver ring we picked out snug on my finger

[escapismsworld]

This vibrant vase was designed by Christopher Dresser for Minton & Co in 1872. ⁠

⁠Dresser believe that design should always start from nature. For this vase, he studied beetles, treating the insects as⁠ a series of shapes, colours, and lines. ⁠

📸: Ashmolean Museum

[jacquesbonhomie]

John William Inchbold (1830-1888)

‘A Study, in March’

[flintdibble]

When you hear people claim that the pyramids weren't tombs but granaries, you can always point out that these were what 4th dynasty Egyptian grain silos looked like (my photo, Ashmolean Museum)

[7pleiades7]

Personification of Justice by an Anonymous Flemish Artist, (late 17th century), oil on canvas, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

[thesilicontribesman]

Faces From The Distant Past...

Painted Roman Burial Panels and a Shroud

The bearded men are painted in encaustic on limewood. Damage to the finer, later portrait reveals traces of the artist's sketch below the right eye and in the beard. Unprovenanced, Roman, 150-170 CE

Fragment of a painted shroud of a young woman with gold ball earrings, a gold necklace and a hair-band decorated with pearls. Hawara,. Fayum,. Roman, 55-80 CE.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford