#animals in art

[random-brushstrokes]

Alexander Pock - Mungo (1932)

[psikonauti]

Yumi Kitagishi (Japanese,b.1983)

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Ethleen Palmer (Australian, 1906–1958), "Pouter Pigeons", 1934

[arthistoryanimalia]

#ThreeForThursday:

Tea Service in the Shape of Quails

Gujarat (formerly Baroda), India, 1920-30

Silver, gilded silver, ivory

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts display

“The British were not India's only patrons of elegant silver.

Native princes - always engaged in dynamic cultural interchanges with their British overlords - also commissioned silver of the highest quality. Such patronage was nowhere more prominent than in western India, where the rulers of the state of Kutch were champions of their silversmiths. These leaders ensured their region's silver became the best known of India's styles through sponsorship at international exhibitions, beginning with London's Great Exhibition of 1851. This stylishly whimsical tea service in the shape of richly feathered quails was produced by Oomersee Mawjee Jr., son of Kutch's most renowned master silversmith, after he shifted to the employ of another western Indian ruler, Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda.”

[the-cricket-chirps]

Francis Picabia, Le singe, 1939-1940

Francis Bacon, Monkey, 1953

[clawmarks]

Cat and kittens - Henriette Ronner-Knip - 1903 - via Bonham's

[bizarreauhavre]

Philippe Rousseau, 1816-1887 - The rat who withdrew from the world

[balkanparamo]

Milo Manara - Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

[zukriuchen]

Minyoung Kim - Yum Yum, 2023

[pear-spective]

JOHN WILLIAM WATERHOUSE

A Sketch of a Bear (1913)

[lionofchaeronea]

Kitten's Game, Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, 1860s or 1870s

[random-brushstrokes]

Ernst Küsel - Billy Goat (1900)

[psikonauti]

Peder Mørk Mønsted (Danish,1859-1941)

Hollyhock Farm, 1931

Oil on canvas

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Yan Bolong (Chinese, 1898–1954), "Precious Bird among Red Leaves" (detail), 1936

[arthistoryanimalia]

#FrogFriday:

Frog on Toadstool

Japan, mid-19th c.

Hirado ware; porcelain with blue & brown glazes

1 9/16 x 1 7/16 x 1 in. (3.9 x 3.7 x 2.6 cm)

LACMA M.87.263.60

[the-cricket-chirps]

Huang Yongyu

Rat

Ink and colour on paper