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“Zoomorphic Vessel in the Shape of a Potato-Bird” Moche culture, Peru, 500-800 CE Earthenware, slip paint; H 19 x W 18 cm Now on display at The Walters Art Museum’s newly opened Latin American Art / Arte Latinoamericano galleries. #IndigenousArt #AndeanArt #BirdsInArt

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Tripod Vessel in the Form of #Seahorses Atlantic Watershed culture, Costa Rica, 300-700 CE Earthenware, 7 1/8 x 7 3/16 x 6 1/4 in. (18.1 x 18.2 x 15.9 cm) Now on display at The Walters Art Museum’s newly opened Latin American Art / Arte Latinoamericano galleries. #IndigenousArt #CentralAmericanArt

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A #snail for a slow Sunday: Snail Figurine by Zsolnay, Hungary, c.1930s Hand-Painted Iridescent Green Eosin Glaze Porcelain H 2.25 x L 4.5 x W 2.5 in. www.1stdibs.com/furniture/de...

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Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah portion Behar (בְּהַר) with a bear with its nose in a jar of honey. #ParashahPictures Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.73v @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

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Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah portion Bechukotai (בְּחֻקֹּתַי) with a startled looking bear. #ParashahPictures Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.74v @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

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Burial Urn with #Jaguars and Skulls Unidentified artist(s), K'iche' Maya culture, Guatemala, 600-900 CE Earthenware, paint Now on display at The Walters Art Museum’s newly opened Latin American Art / Arte Latinoamericano galleries. #IndigenousArt #CentralAmericanArt

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For #Baturday 🦇: Bowl with Leaf-Nosed #Bat Handle Unidentified artist(s), Maya culture, Ulúa Valley, Honduras, 600-900 CE Stone (carved marble) Now on display at The Walters Art Museum’s newly opened Latin American Art / Arte Latinoamericano galleries. #IndigenousArt #CentralAmericanArt

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#FishFriday 🐟: René Lalique (France, 1860-1945) “Martigues” Bowl, Model 377 designed 1920 Opalescent moulded glass Dia. 36.2cm (14 1/4in) www.mutualart.com/Artwork/MART...

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Resharing for #EndangeredSpeciesDay

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Resharing for #EndangeredSpeciesDay

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#FrogFriday 🐸: Vilmos Zsolnay (Hungary, 1828-1900) #ArtNouveau #Frogs Vase, c.1900 Iridescent enameled ceramic, H 19.5 cm www.aguttes.com/en/lot/18498...

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Gilt bronze inlaid turquoise, coral and lapis lazuli inkstone box in the form of a toad with dragon's horns and two wings and curled tail, Western Han dynasty, 2nd century BCE. Unearthed from Tushan in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province. Collection of Nanjing Museum.

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Gladys Mgudlandlu (South Africa, 1917-1979) #Birds and African Pots, 1964 Gouache, 59.4 x 29.3 cm #WomenArtists #BirdsInArt "She knew the birds of the region intimately, called them friends and painted them... She was even called 'unontaka' (the bird lady)." www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/...

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Cecily Sash (South Africa, 1925-2019) The Secretary Bird, n.d. (sold 2010) Oil & acrylic on composition board 35 5/8 x 27 3/4 in. www.lotsearch.net/lot/cecily-s... #WomenArtists #BirdsInArt

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Purse, 1910-30 Designed by M.E.D. Jenkinson & Grace Hazen (USA, 1874-1940) Silk, glass beads, metal, cotton H x W (w/o handle): 25.4 x 23.5 cm (10 x 9 1/4 in.) Cooper Hewitt 1956-97-1: collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/1841... #BirdsInArt

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Jean Schlumberger (France, 1907–1987) for Tiffany & Co., USA #Jellyfish (La Méduse) [Brooch], 1967 Moonstones, diamonds, sapphires, 18k gold, platinum Collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon @ Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. vmfa.museum/exhibitions/...

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The majestic Gayer-Anderson Cat. An ancient Egyptian bronze cat figurine, usually interpreted as a representation of the Egyptian goddess Bastet. Late Period, c. 600 BC. 📷 by me #Archaeology 🏺

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This simple silver denarius marks the triumph of Octavian and the destruction of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt (and the deaths of Antony and Cleopatra). It reads 'AEGYPTO CAPTA', 'Egypt [is] captured'. And what better symbol of Egypt than the crocodile, tamed by Rome? 🏺 28 BCE, #ARTIC 📸 me

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In 1807, G. P. Harris presented the Thylacine, often referred to as the Tasmanian Tiger, to the Linnean Society of London. Its initial scientific description and illustration were published in their Transactions in 1808. 🧪 www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/757948 #OpenAccess #ThylacineThursday #BHLib

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The king ragworm (Alitta virens) is an annelid worm that burrows in wet sand and mud. Illustrated by Roberta McIntosh for William McIntosh's 1910 work, A Monograph of the British Annelids, via #SILibraries: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38533302 #HerNaturalHistory #WormWednesday 🪱 🧪 #ILoveBHL

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Lithograph of armadillo and pangolin by Karl Joseph Brodtmann from his book ‘Naturhistorische Bilder-Gallerie Aus Dem Thierreiche.’ Leipzig, 1816. I saw this book at UW-Madison Special Collections. #animalart #naturalhistory #bookhistory

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All the better to hear you with....... Bodleian Library, Exeter College MS 47; f.21v @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

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Happy bats in the margin Bodl. Library MS. Ashmole 304; 13th century; England, St. Albans; f.47v @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

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Do you remember those days when it was still fun to tweet on twitter....... BL Add MS 11639; 'The Northern French Miscellany'; 1277-1324 CE; f. 332v

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Happy Mothers Day! 🐨 (image: Le Koala, from "Compléments de Buffon" by R. P. Lesson, 1838. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16007929 via #SILibraries) #MothersDay2025 #MothersDay 🧪

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#TilesOnTuesday : Ceiling Tile (socarrat) with Design of a #Lion Paterna, Valencia region, Spain; Mudéjar period, c.1450-1500 Earthenware with red manganese oxide & black iron oxide pigments over white slip 14 x 17 5/16 x 15/16 in. (35.5 x 44 x 2.4 cm) SLAM 37:1939: www.slam.org/collection/o...

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What is Canada's Favourite Roadside Attraction? ROUND SIX: SASKATCHEWAN FINAL We started with a list of 448 Roadside Attractions in Canada. Winner moves on to Round SEVEN! #CanadasFavouriteRoadsideAttraction Attraction info in 🧵👇 1. Bison Running Sculpture 2. Mac The Moose

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A hand-book to the primates. v.1 London: W.H. Allen & Co., Ltd., 1894. (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81333) #nature #illustration #art

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Terracotta rhyton (vase for libations or drinking), ca. 350–300 BCE Class: Vases Culture: Greek, South Italian, Apulian Medium: Terracotta https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/255461

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🐉 British libellulinae, or, Dragon flies: . London: Printed by J.C. Bridgewater, 1845.. [Source]

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#TilesOnTuesday : Tile - Landscape with #Parrots Mexico, Tarascan, c. 1933 Glazed ceramic, 14.9 x 14.9 cm (5 7/8 x 5 7/8 in.) Cleveland Museum of Art 1933.268: www.clevelandart.org/art/1933.268 #BirdsInArt

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#TurtleTuesday + #TextileTuesday : #Turtle, 1937-8 Federal Art Project (WPA), Milwaukee, WI, USA Color woodcut on cotton fabric sheet: 45.09 × 41.91 cm (17 3/4 × 16 1/2 in.) NGA DC 2015.143.1518.6: www.nga.gov/artworks/193...

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Why take the bus when you could ride a giant chicken? Here are some unconventional transportation choices from our collection 🤔 🐓 Roof ornament in the form of a figure riding a hen, China, 1501–1700. EAX.1632

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🦤 The birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan islands London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1875-1888. [Source]

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Moses Harris’s gorgeous book ‘The Aurelian: A Natural History of English Moths and Butterflies, Together with the Figures of Their Transformations and of the Plants on Which They Feed.’ New edition by John O. Westwood. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1840. University of Chicago’s Special Collections.

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Born #onthisday in 1828, the English poet, illustrator, painter, translator, and serious wombat fan Dante Gabriel Rossetti... https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/o-uommibatto-how-the-pre-raphaelites-became-obsessed-with-the-wombat #otd

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Happy #MedievalMonday! It's the start of a new working week, and we're channeling this not-to-be-messed-with unicorn being ridden by an enormous eagle. There's a look in that unicorn's eyes that suggests they would never let a full email inbox get the best of them.

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It’s a cat amongst the parrots and pigeon today for #MosaicMonday! One parrot seems like they might be aware of the danger but it looks like the other two are in danger of becoming lunch! #AncientBluesky🏺 #Cats

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#MedievalMonday & #ManuscriptMonday : Solomon's Fleet, f.108r from De avibus (Aviarium of Hugh of Fouilloy), BNF lat. 14429, N. France, c.1275-1300. mandragore.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/c... “This boat carrying two peacocks & two apes illustrates a story from the biblical book of 1 Kings 10:22.” #BirdsInArt

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#AmphibianWeek bling: #Salamander Brooch by Boucheron, Paris, c.1950 Orange & yellow diamonds, emeralds, 18k rose gold; 2.75 In. www.christies.com/lot/lot-colo...

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Us flying into Bluesky like 🦋💙 #picturebooks #art #EricCarle 🎨Collection of Eric and Barbara Carle. © 1988 Penguin Random House LLC.

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For #MothersDay : Charley Harper (USA, 1922-2007) “Momatee” Original gouache on artist board c.1960s; later published in Jan. 1972 issue of Ford Times Magazine www.facebook.com/share/p/15ZM... Lithograph: www.charleyharperartstudio.com/momatee.html #Manatees

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For #MothersDay : A doe nursing her fawn, c. 1560 Mughal (Uttar Pradesh, India) Ink, opaque watercolor, & gold on paper; 18.2 x 12.8 cm San Diego Museum of Art 1990.272: collection.sdmart.org/objects-1/in...

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Resharing for #MothersDay

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