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Redman’s Metropolitan; an Auricula. Plate XVI. 1791
Engraved after an original by James Sowerby. From James Sowerby, ‘The Florist’s Delight’ No. III (London: 1791).
The RHS Lindley Library
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Frontispiece from Thomas Miller, ‘The Poetical Language of Flowers; or the Pilgrimage of Love’ (London: David Bogue, 1847).
The RHS Lindley Library
The language of flowers was a 19th-century code used to make bouquets which passed messages between lovers and suitors. Each flower was given its own meaning and they could be combined to create special messages.
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Aleksandra Schekatikhina-Pototskaya - artist, designer, and the third (and last) wife of Ivan Bilibin.
Pictured are a few examples of propaganda porcelain she designed in 1919-1921 in Petersburg.
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Avelino Perez bird carvings make nice last minute gifts… (at Zinnia Folk Arts, LLC) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bru3bLZF8gH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=wuh9e1d1trac
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▪ Vase.
Factory: Wedgewood and Co.
Date: ca. 1780
Culture: British, Staffordshire
Medium: Black basalt
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Hand of Sabazios, Alcuni monumenti del Museo Carrafa, 1877
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Hand of Sabazios, Catalogue of the bronzes, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, 1899
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Early 1900s Real Photo Postcard, Trick-or-Treaters in masks
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“The mean of the sea”, “the cyclops” and “the sea bishop” by François Desprez, c. 1562-1564.
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Robert Fludd. Frontispiece for Philosophiæ Moysaicæ. 1638.
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The Dragon Devouring the Companions of Cadmus (detail) by Hendrick Goltzius, 1588.
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Illustrations of prophecy, particularly the evening and morning visions of Daniel, and the apocalyptical visions of John, 1840
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