#TwoForTuesday #macaw woodblock prints from Ohara Koson (aka Ohara Hōson, Ohara Shōson) (1877-1945):
1. Red and Blue Parrot, c.1925-1936
Rijksmuseum RP-P-2005-476 https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-P-2005-476
2. Two Macaws, c.1930s
https://ukiyo-e.org/image/artelino/37325g1

#JapaneseArt #BirdsInArt

#TwoForTuesday + #TurtleTuesday:
A Pair of Vases: #Turtles with Jack-in-the-Pulpit, c. 1879
Designer: Karl H. L. Müller (1820-1887)
Manufacturer: Union Porcelain Works, NYC
Porcelain, under- and overglaze decoration
Baltimore Museum of Art 1997.I27.I, 1997.I27.2

A pretty in pink #TwoForTuesday from
the Harvard Peabody Museum collection:

1. Fetish frog
Yaqui culture, Sonora, Mexico
rhodochrosite w/ turquoise eyes
2.5x5.7x5.9cm
https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/599446

2 Fetish standing bear
Zuñi culture, New Mexico, USA
rhodochrosite w/ turquoise eyes & necklace
7x3.3x3.2cm
https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/599389

#IndigenousArt #NativeAmericanArt #MesoamericanArt

#TwoForTuesday:

Ceramic stirrup-spout bottles in the form of a #duck and a #feline (ID’d here as a puma)
c. 1100-1400 CE
Chimú culture, North coast of Peru
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian display

This type of grey-black ceramic was a signature Chimú style.

#IndigenousArt #PeruvianArt #AndeanArt

#TwoForTuesday + #TerrierTuesday : 2 of the goodest boys in DC!
1 Fala (Scottish terrier, d. 1952), a favorite pet of FDR. Bronze sculpture by Neal Estern at the FDR Memorial.
2 Owney (terrier mix, d. 1897), mascot of the Railway Mail Service & USPS. Bronze sculpture by Daniel C. Brown at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum.

#TwoForTuesday on #TextileTuesday:
San Blas Islands (Guna Yala comarca), Guna, Panama - 20th century
Machine-woven plain-weave cotton cloth w/ appliqué & embroidery
On display at GW Textile Museum’s new animal-themed textiles exhibit.
#IndigenousArt #PanamanianArt

#TwoForTuesday on #TextileTuesday:
Two children's collars
China, 1901-50
Pig: silk & cotton embroidery w/ appliqué
Bats: silk & cotton embroidery
On display at The George Washington University Textile Museum’s new animal-themed textiles exhibit.
#ChineseArt

#TilesOnTuesday + #TwoForTuesday: another pair from the ongoing search for all the #animals from the 420 original 1906 #Moravian tile #mosaics by Henry Chapman #Mercer on the #Pennsylvania Capitol floor: 95 + 115 “URSUS” (Black #Bear)!
#ArtsAndCraftsMovement

#TwoForTuesday: Two Ivory #baboons
#AncientEgypt, Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12-early Dynasty 13, c. 1938-1630 BCE
Brooklyn museum 36.121 & 36.123
“Many small ivory and faience baboons have been found in Middle Kingdom tombs.
Some scholars believe they functioned as gaming pieces. Others argue that because images of baboons often appear on other protective objects, the figures served as eternal guardians of the deceased.”

#TwoForTuesday #JapaneseArt for #InsectWeek:
1. Ohara Koson (1877-1945)
Praying Mantis and Full Moon, c. 1920s
woodblock print, ink & color on paper
Trout Gallery
2. Murata Seimin (1761-1837)
Brush Rest in the Shape of a Praying Mantis, c. 1800
metalwork sculpture, copper alloy
Walters Art Museum

Another piece from “Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature” at @BrandywineMuse for #TwoForTuesday:
Swans (Night), c. 1917, pastel on paper
#birdsinart
>Stella penned a poem on the subject, "Nocturne," describing, "The emotions, incense-misty with the memories of / his native land . . . They pervade with fragrance the velvety depths of / the waters; / Rippling with the silent rustle of the SWANS."<

For #InsectWeek on #TilesOnTuesday + #TwoForTuesday: 82 & 92 #Grasshopper
From the ongoing search for all the #animals from the 420 original 1906 Moravian tile #mosaics by Henry Chapman Mercer on the #Pennsylvania Capitol floor.
#InsectsInArt #ArtsAndCraftsMovement

#TwoForTuesday: two double duck effigy vessels! #Colima culture ( #Mexico ). Undated, but I’ve seen similar vessels dated c. 100 BCE - 250 CE. Spotted on display at @AMNH.
#BirdsInArt #IndigenousArt #Ducks

#TwoForTuesday: Statuettes of Oxen
#AncientEgypt, Middle Kingdom, Dynasties 11-12, 2040-1801 BCE
Polychromed wood
VMFA collection
Gallery label:
“Models of people and animals from Middle Kingdom tombs provide information about Egyptian daily life. Representations of cows and oxen were common in tombs because cattle were important to both economic and religious life. These two young oxen may originally have been part of a cattle-counting or butchering scene.”

🦋Spread Your Wings🦋 ~OR~ 💔Love Me Not💔

💐Lilacs💐 ~OR~ 🌷Tulips🌷

http://YourFairyTaleNails.com

#TwoForTuesday #ThisOrThat #ElectricMeadowsCollection #LastCall #ScheduledRemoval #June7th

🧡Heart of Marigold☀️ ~OR~ ☀️Sunny Daze☀️

🍋Lemonade🍋 ~OR~ 🧋Iced Coffee🧋

http://YourFairyTaleNails.com

#TwoForTuesday #ThisOrThat #ElectricMeadowsCollection #LastCall#ScheduledRemoval #June7th

#TwoForTuesday: love these #ArtDeco serpent-shaped andirons seen on display at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts! 🐍 🐍
Edgar Brandt (French, 1880-1960)
Pair of Andirons, 1926
wrought iron
#serpents #snakes #metalwork

Another for For #WorldTurtleDay on a #TurtleTuesday + #TwoForTuesday:

Albert Eckhout (Dutch, c.1610–1665)
Study of Two Brazilian Tortoises [species ID = Red-footed tortoise, Chelonoidis carbonarius]
1640
oil & paper on panel, 30.5 x 51 cm

"The animals are grunting threateningly at each other, as the males do during the breeding season. But Eckhout made the animals more exciting than they actually are – >>>tortoises do not in fact have teeth.<<<"

Mauritshuis: https://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/our-collection/artworks/957-study-of-two-brazilian-tortoises/

It’s #WorldTurtleDay, on a #TurtleTuesday + #TwoForTuesday!
19th c. turtle-shaped umbilical cord amulets at the Penn Museum: 1st one seen on display during a recent visit, 2nd one back in 2019…thought it looked different than I remembered it! 😉 (These charms are a #NativeAmerican Plains Culture Area tradition, usually #turtles for newborn girls & #lizards for boys.)
1. Assiniboine (Nakoda) culture, c. 1860
2. Likely Lakota (Sioux) culture, c. 1880

It’s #WorldTurtleDay, on a #TurtleTuesday + #TwoForTuesday!
Check out this gorgeous pair of nearly 2000-year-old cast #gold repoussé #turtle earrings, probably from the Taxila region (in modern day Pakistan), 1st-2nd c. CE, 5.72 x 1.27 x .95 cm.
From the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) collection: https://collections.lacma.org/node/251482