#zoomorphize

[chiropteracupola]

c. 1540 CE: a young man from Chalco, and his dragon.

[thoodleoo]

this is who you're asking to work 40 hours a week btw

[batri-jopa]

Look at these cats and their human versions series by Gerrard Gethings (gezgethings on Instagram):

[heliosail]

A pinisi solar sailor. Pinisis are medium sized ships popular with merchants. They are powered only by solar sail. This is an official piece of art for the game done by myself.

[yebreed]

Bird, Tiger, Serpents and a Pair of Antlers: Warring States Art Device

Another remarkable sur of the pre-Taoist period.

The sculptural group is dominated by a mighty Bird, whose wings are complemented by antlers. Some have rashly classified it as the Phoenix, according to another version it is a Crane. However, I would warn against light-minded ornithological typing. The thumbnail Tiger serves as a pedestal for the Bird, pressing two serpentine bodies with its paws. The coiled snakes are devouring a pair of fliers.

The artifact may turn out to be a drum stand common at the time. Other figurines of antlered birds standing on tigers are known. This common motif unites the spiritual animals of the Lower and Upper Worlds. The amalgamous zoomorphic imagery is probably of shamanic origin.

Antlered and winged beings were also a widespread pattern in depiction of the zhenmushou (鎮墓獸), tomb guardians. The solemn or ferocious creatures served as the owner's spiritual animals in the afterlife and guides on the ascent to Heavens.

The entire lacquered wood sculpture group is painted black with subtle gold and red ornamentation. The object was unearthed from the Tomb No. 1 in Jiuliandun (九連墩1號墓), Zaoyang, Hubei. Now it is in Hubei Provincial Museum (湖北省族館).

Photo: ©湖北省族館

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldElephantDay 🐘:

Drawing (Zoomorphic Calligraphy, Elephant)

North India or Pakistan, possibly Lahore, late 19th c.

Black ink on paper

“Ornamental calligraphy in the form of a running elephant, saddled with a double-seated high saddle. The whole embodies the name and titles of a Nawab of Jasra.”

V&A IM.19-1916

“See letter of Hendley to Caspar Purdon Clarke, December 31 1915 on NFMA/1/H1596, Hendley Family, where he notes that these were from 'the bazaar' and are the originals of those published by him and Chaubey Bisvesvar Nath of Jaipur in the Journal of Indian Art. Several of the calligraphic birds and animals reproduced in the Journal are signed and give their place of origin as Lahore, or the Lahore bazaar.”

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

Celtic Design of Interlaced Dogs // The Tortured Poets Department (The Black Dog Variant) – Taylor Swift

[thesilicontribesman]

Zoomorphic Iron Age Fitting, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

[almostarts]

Pierre Toulhoat, "Pitcher,"

Keraluc, France, c. 1950,

Glazed ceramic,

7 h × 8 w × 4 d in (18 × 20 × 10 cm)

[dvin-chronicles]

Armenian zoomorphic letters

[cuties-in-codices]

upside-down kiss

in an illustrated alchemical roll ("the ripley scrolls"), english/latin, late 16th or early 17th c.

source: London, British Library, Add Ms 5025, fol. 1br

[blueiscoool]

ANCIENT CYPRIOT ZOOMORPHIC AKSOS VESSEL CYPRUS, MIDDLE CYPRIOT, 1900 – 1600 B.C.

[jadeseadragon]

Ancient ceramic vessels from around the world featuring animals.

[nicolagriffith]

Celtic-style interlace as drawn by the master scribes of Early Medieval insular masterpieces such as the Book of Kells and Lindisfarne Gospels can be almost infinitely complex. I'm a beginner—finding joy in small beginnings, and slowly getting more confident as I proceed...

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Zoomorph P at Quirigua, Guatemala, 1883.

[teawizard97]