#skull watch

[pwlanier]

WATCH IN SILVER

IN THE SHAPE OF A SKULL

BEAUTIFUL IMITATION FOLLOWING 16TH CENTURY MODELS

MARKED 'MOŸSE BLOIS', FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY

Silver dial engraved with a head

Ofangelot and foliage with a

Mill next to a river in the center,

Hour scale in applied gilded brass, false counter for phases of

The moon, blued steel needle: oval movement engraved with recovery,

Openwork and engraved rooster, exhaust

Rod, hose rope rocket, cylindrical pillars; silver case

In the shape of a skull, ring

Suspension in the center of the skull

Which is engraved with two scenes from the

Genesis, the creation of Eve (ii. 21) and the

Adam's temptation (iii. 6). The forehead with

A skeleton holding emblems of the

Time - a fake and an hourglass. One

Quote from Ovid (Metamorphoses, xv,

234) surrounds these scenes: 'Tempus

Edax rerum tuque invidiosa vetustas

(O rodent time, and you, envious

Old age) 'Sicut meis sic and omnibus

Idem' (I treat myself and all

In the same way) and inside

'Scala cæli ad gloria via' (the scale of the

Heaven is the way to glory). The jaw is engraved on the outside with the

Legend 'Sic justitia satis fecit mortem superavit salutem comparavit'

(So justice is satisfied, it has

Defeated death and obtained salvation), and to

The interior with the adoration of the Child

Jesus and 'Gloria in excelsis deo' (gloire

To God in the highest of heaven).

Timepiece 'memento mori' to which belongs the famous ringing watch in

Skull shape supposed to have belonged to

Mary, Queen of Scotland who would have given it to

His maid, Mary Seaton.

Smaller and without ringing, our watch

Shares with the latter the scene of the

Adam's temptation and three of the inscriptions,

Including the one taken from Ovid. These same inscriptions are also on a watch

Of comparable size, also without ringing, sold at Christie's, Paris, on the 19th

June 2018, lot 83.

Since Marie's watch is

Known since at least 1822, we can locate the production of these skulls

In the second quarter of the 19th century, a period of the romantic movement and

Walter Scott's novels, and a little more

Late, the beginning of the worship of Mary

From Scotland.

Translation is difficult.

Interencheres

[liivn]

“Memento Mori” Skull Pocket-watch, Gold and Enamel, 1810

[kingshook1]

[autismmydearwatson]

Every time I watch Dune I forget about it but I'm foaming at the mouth over how Paul has a vision of himself as a powerful, respected, divine figure with millions worshipping him and he just says "Somebody help me"

[circuscountdowns]

I don’t think the crown works like this. added the full pages

[bunnieswithknives]

OK JUST A LITTLE THING BECAUSE IM INSANE @cubbihue

Song: Plastic by Cheekface

[danicloth]

It’s cold 🩷🩵…

My delulu is slowly coming back =w=✨

[puppyeared]

Callbacks to older episodes

[weaver-z]

50s horror, I love you so very much.

[ranchdressing3]

good day have this clip of the Team Skull girls going “BYEEEE🥰“ which is my new favorite thing ever

[fluffyartbl0g]

If you asked me to describe them in one picture it would be this

Here’s the scene in question ^^^^ ITS SO GOOD ITS SO GOOD ITS SO GOOD

And here’s the exact screenshot I redrew

[violottie]

🇵🇸 please watch and remember this 🇵🇸

"PERSPECTIVE: In a world where some can close their eyes to suffering, others are forced to endure it without respite. Let’s remember our privilege to switch off, and consider the lives that can’t.”

by meeks_animates, 14/Apr/2024:

[sillyfairygarden]

90 minute leyendecker study b4 bed. heard cleo has a cat cafe this season :swoons:

[notbecauseofvictories]

sometimes I think they put some sort of...aural drug in mediocre movies. If I played all these thoroughly middling movies in reverse, would I hear a satanic message telling me, YOU WILL BE TEMPTED BEYOND ALL REASON TO WRITE FANFIC ABOUT---YES, THE MOVIE YOU HALF-WATCHED WHILE COOKING AND ANSWERING EMAILS. YES. YES, I---YES, I'M SERIOUS. YES, THIS MOVIE. THE CHARACTERIZATION OR LACK THEREOF MAKES NO DIFFERENCE. UH HUH. MHM. YEP. LOOK, I DON'T MAKE THE RULES, I JUST WORK HERE OKAY?

[floralsapphics]

Maybe they weren’t lying about Agatha All Along being the gayest mcu project because what do you mean aubrey plaza licks blood off kathryn hahn’s hand and they have a sexually charged knife fight and we’re only on the SECOND EPISODE???

[ineed-to-sleep]

So I've had this wip sitting in my folders for months now and decided to ressurect it to satiate the urge to draw these two again