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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Female figure with child 🌍Igbo (Nigeria) ⌛Early to mid-20th century 🏺National Museum of African Art buff.ly/woHFBhl

Female figure nursing a child at her left breast, seated on a cylindrical stool with flared base, with finely modeled facial features including long, thin nose, hemispherically shaped eyebrows and thin lips. The hairstyle consists of a series of nodules over the whole head and the neck and shoulder area have series of grooved incisions. The left arm has a series of bracelets with what seem to be cowrie shells, while the right arm of the woman and chlid have bracelets. The feet are flat, and the toes are indicated and appear webbed.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Lyre Fragment in the shape of a bull head 🌍 Ur (Iraq) ⌛ c. 2450 BCE 🏺 Penn Museum buff.ly/ebyegjC

A bull's head with beard. The head, ears, and horns are made out of gold. The beard and hair on the bull's heads are carved from dark lapis stone. Its eyes are similarly inlaid in blue stone.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Madonna and Child 🌍 Carlo Crivelli, Venetian (Italy) ⌛ c. 1490 🏺 National Gallery of Art buff.ly/kIfcTvu

A portrait showing the Virgin Mary with the baby Jesus. She wears an elaborate hooded cloak of dark green with gold vegetal embroidery over a white veil and red dress, similarly embroidered. Her hair is blonde and done up in two side buns, and she wears a string of beads on her head. Her hand rests on the leg of Jesus, who stands upright and holds up his index and middle finger in the classic blessing pose. He wears a simple brown tunic with translucent shirt and looks VERY sleepy. The background of the piece is gilded and decorated in one corner with a realistic pear and a realistic apple in the other.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Mold-Made Female Figure 🌎Maya (Guatemala) ⌛ 600–900 🏺 Los Angeles County Museum of Art buff.ly/ssyL4Qz

Red ceramic figurine of a woman with a huge, elaborate headdress. She also wears a loose full-body garment, bracelets, and a string of beads.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Antefix Fragment showing a Gorgon 🌍 Greek (Southern Italy) ⌛ c. 500 BCE 🏺 Getty Museum buff.ly/WwKaVF8

Tan architectural element showing the head of a gorgon. She has a beard, bulging eyes, and fangs that frame her protruding tongue. The gorgon and the geometric elements behind her are painted in two shades of red.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Inkstone in the form of a crab 🌏 Vietnam ⌛ 1400-1525 🏺 Art Gallery of South Australia buff.ly/DKVJTfN

Off-white crab tightly folded in on itself. Its shell, legs, and claws are decorated with delicate blue color.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Venus of Laussel 🌍 Gravettian Culture (France) ⌛ c. 23,000 BCE 🏺 British Museum buff.ly/3Ql3kFv

Rough chunk of limestone on which is engraved a heavy set woman holding a horn. She faces to screen left and has long hair, large pendulous breasts, and thick hips. Traces of red ochre pigment can be seen on the stone.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Vessel with Young Lord and Monkey 🌎 Maya (Guatemala) ⌛ 600–800 🏺 Los Angeles County Museum of Art buff.ly/4hEBKiF

Short round vessel painted in red and black on an off-white background. It shows a Maya lord in elaborate headdress and outfit communing with a monkey wearing a large necklace. The pot is trimmed in black chevron motifs.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Rhyton in the form of a Zebu bull 🌍 Amlash (Northern Iran) ⌛ c. 1000-800 B.C.E. 🏺 Indianapolis Museum of Art buff.ly/3CR9NoG

An earthenware figurine of a stylized bull with large head, long snout, and short legs.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Print showing the dream of O-matsu 🌏 Edo Period (Japan) ⌛c. 1845-1846 🏺 The Walters Art Museum buff.ly/4b6alDW

Japanese woodblock print. A person in a flowery kimono is at the bottom, dreaming. From them rise up a series of images in a comic-book word balloon fashion. The upper part of the print is the title of the series in large formal characters reserved in a black rectangle; on the left is a decorative panel with the name of the post-station and a short text.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Dog with a Candle and Lilies 🌍 by Juan de Pareja (Spain) ⌛ 1660s 🏺 Newfields buff.ly/3ErhwKl

Oil painting of a small, tan dog holding a lit candle in its mouth. On the floor is a bouquet of lilies. The ground is nondescript browns.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Sarcophagus of the spouses 🌍 Etruscan (Italy) ⌛ c. 510 BCE 🏺 The Louvre buff.ly/3Q9NJsc

A sarcophagus made out of red clay shaped like a bed on which two figures (one male, one female) recline. The male figure gently holds the female one. The female wears a dress and hat and has her hair braided, while the male is shirtless and has elaborately coiled hair and a beard.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Nippur Map Tablet showing canals (lines) and settlements (circles) 🌍 Kassite Dynasty (Iraq) ⌛ c. 1500 BCE 🏺 Penn Museum buff.ly/3XeVFg3

Photo of a clay tablet. It is crisscrossed by a network of lines with text inside. Near some of the lines are circles with more text. Additional cuneiform writing is placed in the empty spaces between the lines.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Standing Female Figure with Pendulous Breasts, Headband and Earspools 🌎 Michoacan (Mexico) ⌛ 300 BCE–300 CE 🏺 Los Angeles County Museum of Art buff.ly/3Eu9YXu

A ceramic figure of a naked woman wearing a large headband, several strands of necklaces, and big earrings. Like the museum title says, she's got huge breasts.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Spouted ritual vessel with dragons 🌏 China ⌛ c. 1200-1150 BCE 🏺 Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art buff.ly/3Q9NayA

A green bronze vessel with a wide bottom and narrower top, as well as a lid. The body is covered in curving designs. The lid is a face with wide eyes, large ears, and some sort of antennae. It looks like Shrek. The body of the vessel also has a sprout in a rather unfortunate location.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Headdress for Efe Gelede 🌍 Yoruba (Nigeria or Republic of Benin) ⌛ Late 19th/early 20th century 🏺 Art Institute of Chicago buff.ly/3PTrs1T

A brown mask, its face and ears painted white. The eyes are heavily outlined in black. The head, cheeks, and chin are decorated with triangular patterns in a light ochre and dark brown.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Ear ornament with winged runner 🌎 Moche (Peru) ⌛ 400–700 🏺 The Metropolitan Museum of Art buff.ly/4h9omTr

A round ornament, its interior showing a running man with a bird head and wings, crafted out of a mosaic of blue, green, and orange stones and shells. It is trimmed with gold balls.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Bison Licking Insect Bite 🌍 Magdalenian (France) ⌛ c. 13,000 BCE 🏺 National Museum of Prehistory, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil buff.ly/42xAqcz

Carved bone showing a bison bending its head backwards to lick at its side.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Lime pot in the form of a frowning cat 🌏 Cambodia ⌛ 1100-1300 🏺 Art Gallery of South Australia buff.ly/40LhGoC

A round pot, tan with cracked glaze. The top is shaped like the frowning face of an animal with bulging eyes and round ears. The bottom is its body, with its back and front legs bunched up at the front of the pot.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Beaded leather moccasins with fringe and German silver cones 🌎 Comanche (Oklahoma, USA) ⌛ c. 1900 🏺 Gilcrease Museum buff.ly/40NAnYP

A pair of moccasins made of yellow leather. There are long leather fringes at the heel and they are trimmed with red, white, and blue beads. Many silver cones form a fringe down the front of the shoes

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Model of a River Boat 🌍 Middle Kingdom (Egypt) ⌛ c. 2050 BCE 🏺 The Walters Art Museum buff.ly/4gd7ppY

Small model of an Egyptian river boat, made out of painted wood. It has a large back oar and many small figures sitting in it, each with short black hair, white cloth clothing, and tanned skin.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Lyre-shaped belt buckle 🌍 Hispano-Visigothic or early Umayyad period (Spain) ⌛ 8th century 🏺 The Morgan Museum & Library buff.ly/4ah3oiA

Part of a rusted iron buckle inlaid with a brighter gold metal. The inlays are of stylized animals with long necks and swirling motifs

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Bottle in the form of an animal 🌎 Nazca (Peru) ⌛ 50 BCE-300 CE 🏺 Dallas Museum of Art buff.ly/40gLYy2

Brown and orange bottle shaped like some sort of animal with a long snout with pronounced nose and teeth. The top of the head is dark brown, with a light brown and white muzzle and neck. Its orange body is shaped like a fat round cone with tiny blobs of feet sticking out on four sides. It is decorated with circles inscribed with dots.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Jousting armor for Gustav II Adolf's coronation 🌍 Swedish ⌛ 1617 🏺 Statens Historiska Museer buff.ly/4h31uEG

Back of a steel chest piece of armor. It is decorated with four flaming hearts, each pierced by two arrows. Around the trim is painted fire.

Closeup of a heart pieced by two arrows and with flame on the top. It's carefully shaded to show shadows and highlights.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Terracotta wall tile showing the ox-headed retinue of Mara 🌏 Myanmar ⌛ 1475-1500 🏺 Art Gallery of South Australia buff.ly/3PzCaue

A white tile that shows two dark figures with ox heads and human bodies. The figures appear to be dancing and wear yellow ochre skirts. They are surrounded by remnants of light blue glaze on the background.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Figurative charm made of coral, placed by the fire to keep it alight when people were abscent 🌏 Torres Strait Islander (Queensland, Australia) ⌛ 19th Century 🏺 The British Museum buff.ly/42aL74F

Humanoid torso with arms folded over chest. The coral material gives it a fuzzy texture of thousands of little holes in curvilinear patterns.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Hand Mirror Decorated with the Head of Medusa 🌍 Greek (Southern Italy) ⌛ 500–480 BCE 🏺 The Getty buff.ly/3WfU0WU

A round bronze mirror with handle. The round part shows the relief of a face, smiling broadly with tongue extended.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Head of a woman 🌍 Yoruba (Nigeria) ⌛ 12th–15th century 🏺 Metropolitan Museum of Art buff.ly/4072AZ4?

Realistic sculptural portrait of a woman. She has rings on her neck and lines representing scars on her entire face.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

An early #medival disc brooch decorated with animal interlace and masks forming a cross. From a woman's grave in Krautheim-Klepsau, late 6th century. During this period, the cross was often included in ornamental design. However, it can't always be clearly interpreted...🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

A circular gold-plated silver brooch features an ornate design of garnet masks with green glass eyes and blue glass noses, arranged in the shape of a cross. Animal interlace decorates the space between the masks.The brooch is displayed against a black background.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Small sculpture of a Rakugoka 🌏 Japan ⌛ Mid-19th century 🏺 Los Angeles County Museum of Art buff.ly/420gQ8B

A tiny sculpture made of wood with inlaid white eyes. It depicts a small angry man with a bald head and a voluminous robe. His arms are folded in front of him inside the robe.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Earthenware pots in the shape of a noble and servant, both on horseback 🌏 Silla (Korea) ⌛ Early 6th century 🏺 National Museum of Korea buff.ly/4gWUitA

A figure in elaborate dress wearing a triangular hat, riding a chunky horse. He looks fancy. There is a funnel-shaped bowl at the back of the horse where liquid could be poured into the pot, and a sprout at the front of the horse where it could be poured out of.

A figure in riding a chunky horse, dressed more simply than the previous figure. There is a funnel-shaped bowl at the back of the horse where liquid could be poured into the pot, and a sprout at the front of the horse where it could be poured out of.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Gold and rock crystal vessel 🌍 Viking or Anglo-Saxon (Scotland) ⌛ Circa 900 🏺 National Museum Scotland buff.ly/4gYIgjs

A small jar made of rock crystal petals wrapped in delicate, thread-like gold.

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Dr. Oliver Dietrich @oliverdietrich.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Fancy some fashion advice from the Late Bronze Age? A boar‘s tusk ornament from Karlsruhe-Neureut in Germany. Museum Karlsruhe. #Archaeology

A large boar tusk, lined with bronze wires ending in spirals and loops in which pendants are fixed.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Gold trophy head mask 🌍 Asante (Ghana) ⌛ Before 1873 🏺 Royal Collection Trust buff.ly/3PlGixO

Hollow golden sculpture of a head. Wirework coils represent a beard and a hair, while raised strips represent scarification on the left cheek and right side of the forehead.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Vessel in Form of Bird 🌎 Colima (Mexico) ⌛ 200 BCE–500 CE 🏺 Los Angeles County Museum of Art buff.ly/4j2uiyH

An orange-ish ceramic vessel that looks like a bird, but the bird has HUGE legs and a tiny round body.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Intaglio seal with script and unicorn 🌍 Harappa (Pakistan) ⌛ 2200 BCE buff.ly/3DI43xD

Clay seal showing a unicorn in the middle and writing at the top

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Gwion Gwion rock paintings 🌏 Aboriginal Australian ⌛ circa 10,000 BCE 🏺 Kimberly, Western Australia buff.ly/425XL57

Ocher rock art of humanoid forms wearing elaborate hats

Ocher rock art showing a stylized hand with lines parallel to each finger and colored nails

Ocher rock art of humanoid forms wearing elaborate outfits and headdresses, carrying dotted objects in their hands

Dark ochre rock art of a humanoid figure with an ornate tasseled costume

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Helmet Mask (Mukenga) 🌍 Kuba (Democratic Republic of the Congo ) ⌛ 1875–1950 🏺 Art Institute Chicago buff.ly/409IjCq

An elaborate helmet made of fur, monkey hair, feathers, glass beads, and cowrie shells. It's conical overall with a large "trunk" at its top flanked by two smaller "tusks," representing an elephant.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Human Head with Canine Muzzle 🌎 Veracruz (Mexico) ⌛ 600–900 🏺 Los Angeles County Museum of Art buff.ly/400WGsE

A ceramic head with prominent circles modeled around the eyes, decorated with dots. Where the mouth should be on a human is instead a very realistic dog's muzzle. The head's ears are human and have large earring holes.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Tall Necked Jar 🌎 Nasca or Wari (Peru) ⌛ 100–600 🏺 Los Angeles County Museum of Art buff.ly/4h23Q6Q

A rich orange jar with a round body and a long, thin sprout. The sprout is decorated with the head of a person with large open eyes and a flat mouth. The person appears to be crying and wearing a hat, and the body is decorated with white lines and dots.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Figure for Yam ceremony 🌏 Probably Nukuma (Papua New Guinea) ⌛ 19th–early 20th century 🏺 The Metropolitan Museum of Art buff.ly/41Txabc

Wooden lozenge-shaped figure with a smiling face and prominent downturned nose. It is colored white, black, yellow, and red, and is decorated with triangular motifs.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Silver bracelets of Hetepheres I, wife of Pharaoh Snefru 🌎 Old Kingdom (Egypt) ⌛ Circa 2550 BCE 🏺 Egyptain Museum Cairo

A pair of silver bracelets with butterfly designs made of inlaid colored glass

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Openwork furniture plaque with a striding, ram-headed sphinx 🌍 Neo-Assyrian (Iraq) ⌛ ca. 9th–8th century BCE 🏺 The Metropolitan Museum of Art buff.ly/4gyYKPm

Tectangular openwork plaque made of ivory that shows a creature with the head of a ram, the body of a lion, and wings. It is surrounded by vegetal forms and the background has been entirely removed.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Lady of Baza 🌎 Bastetani (Southern Spain) ⌛ 4th century BCE 🏺 National Archaeological Museum of Spain buff.ly/4iKPqtr

Photograph of a full-body limestone sculpture of a woman sitting on a throne. She wears an elaborate multi-strand necklace, large square earrings, and headscarf and headdress. Her shoes and draped cape and dress are trimmed in red paint.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Female Face Mask (Mwana Pwo) 🌍 Chokwe (Angola or Democratic Republic of the Congo) ⌛ 1875–1925 🏺 Art Institute of Chicago buff.ly/3DwjRDp

Wooden mask with elaborate hair made of beads and fibers, as well as a woven fiber neck piece. Her eyes are closed and she has a geometric design on her forehead. The cheeks and chin have scarification designs and the lips appear painted.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Vase with Procession of Warriors 🌎 Nasca (Peru) ⌛ c. 350–600 🏺 Cleveland Museum of Art buff.ly/3BJCovq

Small cup-like vase showing warriors holding spears. They are colored bright red, dark red, and gray on a off-white background. An X appears over each of their heads and they appear to be nude.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Statuettes of river goddesses standing on Makaras 🌏 Kushan Empire (Afghanistan) ⌛ 1st century BCE 🏺 National Museum of Kabul buff.ly/3DvmEwI

Three ivory statuettes of women with large hips and breasts. On each, one arm is raised to her shoulder while the other hangs down. They wear elaborate skirts and jewelry and have styled hair. The bases of the statuettes are Makaras, legendary sea-creatures of Hindu mythology.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Icon of Saint Nicholas 🌍 Orthodox Christian (Russia) ⌛ 1294 🏺 Church of St. Nicholas in Novgorod buff.ly/3VWB1R8

Icon in the orthodox style. Saint Nicholas has curly hair and looks to his left. An elaborate halo with flower designs frames his head. He holds a bible in his left hand and clasps the pinky, ring finger, and thumb of his right hand together at his chest. He wears the elaborate vestments of a priest. The icon is overall black, red, and gold, and various other saints surround Nicholas at the margins.

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Worldwide Art @worldart.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Miniature sculpture (Netsuke) of a tanuki as Budhhist priest 🌏 Japan ⌛ late 19th century 🏺 Art Gallery of South Australia buff.ly/4iSYFrg

Small ivory sculpture showing a tanuki racoon dressed in a robe and holding prayer beads

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

A charming #Egyptian figurine of a hedgehog, made of faience, dating ca 1900 BC, from Thebes, #Egypt. The Egyptians associated hedgehogs with rebirth. On display at Neues Museum Berlin 📷 taken by me 🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky

Close-up of a hedgehog figurine. It is glazed in a bright blue, its eyes are black. The glaze is chipped in many places but remains mostly intact.

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