Fairyland lustre octagonal bowl by Daisy Makeig-Jones, pioneering UK pottery designer for Wedgwood #WomensArt

This 16th-century dish is a Syrian adaptation of the floral decoration typical of Iznik pottery. It is painted in black, green, blue and purple pigments under a colourless glaze and features stylized tulips and hyacinths.⁠
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You will find it on display in the Islamic Middle…

Colour matched ceramic displays. Yes!
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Welsh painter Gwen John, Cat study (c.1904) #womensart

Terracotta plaque from Italy depicting life on the Nile. Dating from the 1st century AD, the plaque is part of the collections British Museum #ReliefWednesday #Rome 📸 My own.

Hand painted 'Tomtit' tiles designed by Christopher Dresser and made by Minton & Co. from 1870. British Museum 📸: my own #TilesOnTuesday

'The Heart of The Rose'. Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh. 1902.

Order yours: duille.com/heart

Evening #WorcestershireHour fancy trying throwing, slab building, coiling, slip casting, modelling & decoration? 2 places available on our popular Discovering Pottery techniques course @theMoRW Wed evenings 7-9pm from this wk @MyWorcester Severn Arts
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A late 15th century #English alabaster statue of the Blessed Virgin and Child (British Museum)

Mourning Woman, made of walnut, polychromy and gilding c. 1480, South Netherlandish (Met Museum)

East of the Sun and West of the Moon c1940 #ChristianWaller BSMGP #StainedGlassSunday

Nina beat me to the punch this morning! Tucked into the middle of a crowded display case, I finally found this beautiful #Greek doggy rhyton. A very familiar expression. 😆

Attributed to the famed Brygos Painter.

National #Etruscan Museum, Villa Giulia, #Rome .

Can Britain’s museums remain free for much longer? Excellent, thought-provoking piece by ⁦Richard Morrison⁩

thetimes.co.uk/article/0b66a7…

For all my dog-loving followers:

A stunning #Greek rhyton (drinking cup) in the shape of a #dog 's head. Dating ca. 475 BC.

Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia

#DontShootYourDogInAGravelPit

Welsh artist Gwen John, Cat study, c.1904 #womensart

From the pediment of a 3rd-4th c. BCE early Republican monument on the Palatine Hill in #Rome , a gorgeous polychrome terracotta face from a statue of - perhaps - Dionysus.

#polychromy

Heraldic medieval floor tile from Byland Abbey in North Yorkshire. Part of the collections in the abbey museum. #TilesOnTuesday 📸 My own.

Drinking vessel in the form of a #cat with painted stripes, made of tin-glazed earthenware, London, 1676. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

Sun tile, #Sevilla , c. 1500-1550

(Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

Fragment of a face - Teotihuacan, 0-650 A.D.