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▪︎ Album of seaweed specimens, in scallop shell binding.

Place of origin: Great Britain

Date: mid-19th century

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Chessboard with Flower Border by Giovanni Battista Sassi (1679-1762)

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Cherries and strawberries (circa 1789).

Coloured etching.

Willcome Collection. Wikimedia.

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Magical portals

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    Flowers blooming time lapse

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Roman Mold-Blown Perfume Bottle, 3-4th century CE

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Four French perfume bottles, c. 1890s-1930s.

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The Pantazzi Collection at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

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The Accolade by Edmund Blair Leighton tapestry, detail / Tree of Life by William Morris tapestry, detail

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not so gentle reminder that academia belongs to the queer, the weary, the women, the people of color, the poor, the ill just as much as it does the rich, the white, the privileged. if your academia isn't accessible, i don't want it.

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1910s-1920s perfume bottles.

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Secret poison cabinets in the shape of books, historicism in the style of the 17th century (1 2 3 4 5 6).

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st. george and the dragon (1908-9) - briton rivière / the vigil (1884) - john pettie / vanitas still-life (1705) - evert collier / david garrick as richard iii (1745) - william hogarth / micro sff stories tweet

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