#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.

[lionofchaeronea]

Studies of the Heads of Two Apostles and Their Hands (auxiliary cartoon for The Transfiguration), Raphael, ca. 1516-20

[cupofmeat]

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

http://www.instagram.com/cup0fmeat

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[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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AM | Michael Svetbird phs©msp | 18|08|24 6300X4200 600 [I.,III.] The photographed object is collection item of AM [Non-commercial fair use | No AI | Author rights apply | Sorry for the watermarks]

[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

[baebeylik]

Islamic coin. Marrakesh, Morocco. 1781-1782 CE.

The Ashmoleon Museum.

[garadinervi]

Prunella Clough, Mesh with Glove, (charcoal & oil on canvas), 1980 [Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Art UK, Stoke-on-Trent. © Estate of Prunella Clough / DACS, London]

[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

[nerdyhistoryenjoyer]

Some of the ceramics T. E. Lawrence excavated and donated to the Ashmolean Museum from the British Archeology at the Ashmolean Museum website

[ukandirelandtour]

Many treasures in the Ashmolean museum in Oxford

[mercuriicultores]

~150, (Auctor incertus), Apollo of Centocelle

[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.

[jacquesbonhomie]

John William Inchbold (1830-1888)

‘A Study, in March’

[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