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Mythology



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Monsters

MONSTERS

Mythological Animals

MYTHOLOGICAL ANIMALS

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Tapestry "History of Artemisia", Paris,1610-1620 The instruction of the young king,detail 30-01-07/54. After Antoine Caron (?),Laurent Guyot and Henri Lerambert.Atelier du Faubourg St.Marcel. Linen and silk,400 x 600 cm OAR 90.
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Tapestry "History of Artemisia", Paris,1610-1620 The instruction of the y...

Tapestry "History of Artemisia", Paris,1610-1620 Les Placets.Marque de Francois de la Planche. After Antoine Caron (?),Laurent Guyot and Henri Lerambert.Atelier du Faubourg St.Marcel. Linen and silk,405 x 360 cm OA 6068.
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Tapestry "History of Artemisia", Paris,1610-1620 Les Placets.Marque de Fr...

Hercules abducting one of the horses of Diomedes. Audenarde, around 1545-65. Tapestry,Linen and silk, 352 x 398 cm OAR 5
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Hercules abducting one of the horses of Diomedes. Audenarde, around 1545-6...

Gold-glass medallion showing Heracles and a husband and wife, and a small image of Herakles, 4th. The man wears a tunic with a red stripe and she wears a gemstone nacklace with pendant pearls. The inscription to "Orfitus and Constantia" could point to Memmius Vitruvius Orfitus, a pagan aristocrat and prefect of Rome in the 4th century. Herakles wears the skin of the Nemean lion and carries his club and the apples of the Hesperides, which were his wedding present to Jupiter and Juno, suggesting that the medallion was a wedding gift. M&ME, 1863,7-27,3
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Gold-glass medallion showing Heracles and a husband and wife, and a small image...

Brass hanging lamp with a griffin handle, Early Byzantine, 5th-6th century. The lamp is boat-shaped with holes for oil and wick. The curved neck of a griffin emerges from a calyx to form a handle. A dove sits between the griffin's ears, above a Christogram.Hanging chains may be original to the lamp, but it also has a bayonet fitting on the base for a stand. Found at Herculaneum,Italy. M&ME,1897,8-20,1
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Brass hanging lamp with a griffin handle, Early Byzantine, 5th-6th century. The...

The Borradaile oliphant,Byzantine, 11th. A sounding horn carved with rows of interlocking medallions. An animal is displayed in each circle (winged griffins, heraldic eagles, lions, peacocks and snakes). Motifs are part Western, (the continuous scroll pattern of interlaced bands), part Arab influence. M&ME, 1923,12-5,3
#30010817

The Borradaile oliphant,Byzantine, 11th. A sounding horn carved with rows of int...

The Borradaile oliphant,Byzantine, 11th. A sounding horn carved with rows of interlocking medallions. An animal is displayed in each circle (winged griffins, heraldic eagles, lions, peacocks and snakes). Motifs are part Western, (the continuous scroll pattern of interlaced bands), part Arab influence. Reverse side of 30-01-08/17 M&ME, 1923,12-5,3
#30010818

The Borradaile oliphant,Byzantine, 11th. A sounding horn carved with rows of int...

Icon of Saint George, Byzantine,from the village of Pskov, Russia. The panel was used as the shutter of a barn window. Overpainted several times, the 14th century icon was finally uncovered by museum custodians. Saint George on a black horse is rare and accounts for the icon's popular name of "Black George". M&ME 1986,6-3,1
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Icon of Saint George, Byzantine,from the village of Pskov, Russia. The panel was...

Chatelaine plate, Merovingian, 7th century. Copper-alloy plate, originally tinned to resemble silver. When viewed vertically, the openwork design gives the impression of a stick figure between two other figures. The paired figures have birds' heads, and arms at an anatomically impossible angle. When the object is viewed on its side the design can be correctly read as a fish between two eagles. The eagle has an early, pagan significance: the Romans associated it with Jupiter and the Franks possibly with Wotan. However the scene may be given a Christian interpretation: the eagle possibly representing Christ, and the fish, a common Christian image, representing the redeemed human soul. The plate would have been worn on a chatelaine, a kind of belt, with straps attached to the loops at the top. It comes from Amiens, Somme, France. M&ME, 1891,10-19,59
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Chatelaine plate, Merovingian, 7th century. Copper-alloy plate, originally tinne...

0310000141 Stove-tile with the arms of James I, c1603-c1625. Earthenware stove-tile in the form of a panel with the lion and unicorn, and the royal Stuart coat-of-arms and the 'IR' cypher ('Iacobus Rex') for King James VI of Scotland and I of England. The incorporation of the Tudor rose and the Scottish thistle at the base symbolises the union of the two crowns. The coat of arms reflected loyalty to the crown. Wood-burning stoves were often made up from elaborately decorated tiles which were being produced in England in small numbers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. By the end of the sixteenth century the severe shortage in the south of England of wood for burning meant that coal, from Newcastle, was the primary source of heating fuel. Coal was not suitable for burning in closed stoves. M&ME, 1981,3-6,1
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0310000141 Stove-tile with the arms of James I, c1603-c1625. Earthenware stove-...

Silver pendant, Slav (Kiev type), 12th century. This silver temporal pendant or earring is one of a pair. It would have been worn in the region of the temples, suspended from a crown or head-dress. The pendant is decorated with an interlaced, mythical animal and geometric designs on a black, nielloed ground. The animal may be a dynastic symbol. Silver pendants of this type are later versions of gold examples and would have been worn as female court regalia at ceremonial occasions in the princely court of Kiev, the capital of the early state of Rus'. The pendant was found in 1906, buried in a metal casket in Trekhsvyatytelska Street (Street of the Three Saints), opposite the gates of the Mikhailovsky Golden Dome Monastery in Kiev, Ukraine. The hoard was probably buried at the time of the Tartar invasions and sack of Kiev around 1240. M&ME, 1907,5-20,13
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Silver pendant, Slav (Kiev type), 12th century. This silver temporal pendant or...

Jean-Babtiste Baillon Gédéon Decombaz Pocket watch: "Hercules and Omphale" after Francois Lemoine Second quarter of the 18th century; Paris Gold, gilded brass, enamel OA 8338
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Jean-Babtiste Baillon Gédéon Decombaz Pocket watch: "Hercules and Omphale" aft...