#ashmolean

[michael-svetbird]

WHITE-GROUND LEKYTHOS WITH ATHENA: A hidden gem concealed amongst other vessels exhibited in Ashmolean Museum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-ground_technique "The characteristic white background of the lekythos was perhaps intended to evoke ivory." [txt ©AM] Attica 5 BC.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford | AM [Ground fl., "The Greek World"]

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AM | Michael Svetbird phs©msp | 18|08|24 6300X4200 600 [I.,III.] The photographed object is collection item of AM [Non-commercial fair use | No AI | Author rights apply | Sorry for the watermarks]

[thesilicontribesman]

Bronze Stag Statuette from the Persian Empire, 550 to 330 BCE, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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[lindahall]

Elias Ashmole – Scientist of the Day

Elias Ashmole, an English collector of curiosities and manuscripts, was born May 23, 1617, in Lichfield, Staffordshire.

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[bwthornton]

Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion & Design exhibition - open now in Oxford, UK Ashmolean Museum

Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion & Design exhibition - open now in Oxford, UK Ashmolean Museum

[harlequinartiste]

[lionofchaeronea]

Studies of the Heads of Two Apostles and Their Hands (auxiliary cartoon for The Transfiguration), Raphael, ca. 1516-20

[cupofmeat]

Green-glazed jar, 701–800 CE, China. Earthenware with green glaze.

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[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[thesilicontribesman]

Trajan Recruits Soldiers. Arch of Trajan at Beneventum, 114 CE

A cuirassed military god in the centre presents a recruit to the roman emperor. The new soldier stands feet together: his height is being measured by a wooden frame held by the soldier on the right (in situ, west side, middle zone)

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

[luv4kokafox]

paintings! 🌷🫶

[preraphaelitepaintings]

Gentle Spring

Date: Frederick Sandys (British, 1829–1904)

Date: c. 1865

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom

[baebeylik]

Islamic coin. Marrakesh, Morocco. 1781-1782 CE.

The Ashmoleon Museum.

[garadinervi]

Prunella Clough, Mesh with Glove, (charcoal & oil on canvas), 1980 [Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Art UK, Stoke-on-Trent. © Estate of Prunella Clough / DACS, London]

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #Baturday, check out this fab little friend:

Ojime in the form of a bat Japan, late 19th century cast copper alloy (sentoku), H 2.3 x W 1.2 x D 1.4 cm Ashmolean Museum EA1956.3749

[nerdyhistoryenjoyer]

Some of the ceramics T. E. Lawrence excavated and donated to the Ashmolean Museum from the British Archeology at the Ashmolean Museum website