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uwmspeccoll · 1 year

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Decorative Sunday!

These beautiful engravings are from the first volume of The Antiquities of Athens by Scottish archeologist, architect and artist, James Stuart (1713-1788) and British artist and architect, Nicholas Revett (1720-1804), printed in London by John Haberkorn in 1762.

The Tower of the Winds is an octagonal marble clock tower in the Roman Agora of Athens. It was designed by Andronicus of Cyrrhus around 50 BC. It was a functional structure that contained sundials, a waterclock, and a wind vane. It is an ancient equivalent of a modern day meteorological station. The building became more widely known outside of Greece because of Stuart and Revett, who were among the first to document the antiquities and monuments of Athens in great architectural detail. Their work is noted for fueling the Greek Revival, an architectural movement in northern Europe, the United States, and Canada in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. When the first volume was published they had more than five hundred subscribers, mostly architects and builders.

The engravings were made by the British engraver James Basire (1730-1802), who specialized in prints depicting architecture. Artwork by Basire is held in museums throughout the world. He is also known for having the young William Blake (1757-1827) as an apprentice for seven years.

The well known artist William Hogarth (1697-1764) published a satirical print called The Five Orders of Periwigs in which he classifies the ridiculous wigs that were in fashion at the time into “orders” with greatly detailed measurements. This was a direct satire of Stuart and Revett’s work and similar work of which he said “It requires nor more skill to take the dimensions of a pillar or cornice, than to measure a square box.”

The tower’s frieze depicts the eight winds in bas-relief represented figuratively as gods, the Anemoi: Zephyrus, the West wind; Boreas, the North wind; Kaikias, the North East wind; Apeliotes, the East wind; Eurus, the South East wind; Notus, the South wind; Lips, the South West wind; and Sciron, the North West wind.

Apeliotes, The East Wind.

Eurus, The South East Wind.

Notos, The South Wind.

Lips, The South West Wind.

Sciron, The North West Wind.

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-Teddy, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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zegalba · 5 months

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#miffy #porcelain #figure #plate #blue #floral #decor

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shiftythrifting · 2 years

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The finest of china, found in a Goodwill in Los Angeles, CA

I regret not buying it

#thrifting #shiftythrifting #submission #decorative plates #finally a good plate #goodwill #ducks #Vicki Sawyer

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a-winter-romance · 3 months

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freshfarmhouse.tumblr.com

#lily of the valley #vintage #plate #kitchen #kitchen decor

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aristoteliancomplacency · 8 months

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I present to you the work of another painter of fish plates. Y’know how you use ‘scare quotes’ for various purposes, including indicating that you’re not actually sure about The Thing?

Well, this guy was so bad at whatever he was painting that we call him…

The ‘tadpole’ painter:

Here’s another example:

This one was sold as part of the Graham Geddes collection at Bonham’s auction house in 2008 for £2,040.

They describe it as ‘three fish including a wrasse with dorsal spines, an angler-fish, the rounded body with multiple black dots, two large round eyes with pupils, an open mouth with teeth bared, and a ray with pointed face, the body with multiple black dots’.

Which like… bold fucking move missing out the fact that they have legs. Though I can’t say I envy whoever had to write the description.

#first one is:#from ‘Greek red-figure fish-plates by Ian McPhee and A D Trendal #from the Macinagrossa collection in Bari #which I think is a private collection?#Trendall and McPhee refer to him as ‘a very minor artist’.#v rude.#imagine the auctioneer writing the description like ‘sooooo… uh. anyone know what this is supposed to be?’#and a colleague just pointing out the fact that it’s the ‘tadpole’ painter and shrugging apologetically #because it was looted we do not know where it originally came from #(though many were found in tombs)#anyway. my personal head cannon - and I cannot emphasise enough that I have literally no evidence for this. it is just a flight of fancy #is that someone has to bring their child to work for a few days #and just let their kid play around and decorate plates that were write-offs for one reason or another #and some kid just sat their happily painting their crude little fish on these plates whilst their dad worked away #Fischteller #fish plates #tagamemnon

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pixelglam · 8 months

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Dinner at the end of summer. ☀️🍷

@pierisim @myshunosun @somik-severinka @pinkbox-anye

#ever since i realised i can just make the dining tables pretty like i love doing in real life i refuse to not decorate them #you'll never see a plain table from me ever again #the plates are from daengsims *cough* v*ult *cough*#also most of the decor food is from leo and pinkbox anye #pixelglam #ts4 #ts4 simblr #the sims 4 #sims 4 #the sims 4 simblr #sims 4 screenshots #ts4 decor #ts4 interior #ts4 build #ts4 builds #the sims community #ts4 house #brownstone*#mybuilds

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yurimaxxing · 2 months

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u got dead plate stuff? :З

I’ve never played this but it looks interesting, hope these r the right characters

#dead plate #idk the characters names help me out #pixels #graphics #gif #decor #rentry #rentry resources #rentry stuff #rentry graphics #rentry decor #rentry gif #web graphics

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nuveau-deco · 5 months

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Jugendstil Pewter Bowl with a Snail Pattern in High Relief. Manufactured ca. 1899–1909 by the Osiris metalware factory in Nuremburg, Germany. Photography by Freia Beer / Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Digitaltmuseum id number: NK5184.

(Source: digitaltmuseum.org)

#plate #bowl #tableware #decorative arts #early 1900s #art nouveau #jugendstil #german design #animal motif #snails #insects #metal #pewter #grey #b&w

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heartnosekid · 2 months

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nova_home_ranya on ig

#stim #ceramics #dinnerware #flowers #sfw #pink #purple #gold #white #yellow #shiny #teacups #plates #bowls #utensils #decor #plants #hands free #ishy gifs #postish

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yourcoffeeguru · 2 months

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Gems of Tasmania Cat Kitten Theme Miniature Dish Decorative Plate Gold Trim || SWtradepost - ebay

#cats #trinket dish #decorative plate #plates #gems of tasmania ceramics #ceramic dish #miniature plate #miniature decorative dish #gold trim #kittens #cat #home decor #cute dish

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andallshallbewell · 4 months

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#plates #interior decorating #interior design #flow blue #chinoiserie

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simdertalia · 1 year

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Mini Statues Set

17 items | Sims 4, Base game compatible | Some items have multiple swatches

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-Liberated Wall Art CC

#sims 4 cc #ts4cc #sims 4 statue #sims 4 statuette #sims 4 deity #sims 4 piggy bank #sims 4 altar #sims 4 nautical #sims 4 plate #sims 4 duck #sims 4 nature decor #sims 4 object #sims 4 clutter #simdertalia

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shiftythrifting · 2 months

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jfk plate. i wish i bought this so i could see Glorious Former President John F Kennedy Glaring up at me through my mashed potatoes

#shiftythrifting #submission #thrifting #jfk shit #decorative plates

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belle-primrose · 6 months

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♡ Pictures ♡ decorated with fabrics

#new post #historical fashion #fashion #fashion history #aestethic #coquette #victorian era #victorian england #victorian #edwardian #pictures decorated with fabrics #vintage #pretty bows #pink #pink aesthetic #blue #white aesthetic #parasol #fashion plate

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uwmspeccoll · 1 year

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Decorative Sunday with Henry P. Kirby

These charming sketches are the work of New York architect Henry P. Kirby (1853 - 1915). Architectural Compositions contains fifty loose plates printed on Whatman paper and housed in a portfolio. It was published in Boston in 1892 by Bates, Kimball & Guild, publishers of one of the United State’s leading architectural journals of that time, The Architectural Review (Boston), not to be confused with the longer running Architectural Review still in publication out of London.

Kirby would have been working as a draftsman for George B. Post at the time of publication, for whom he later worked as lead designer before striking out on his own. Some of the subject matter also evokes Kirby’s time in France, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts after training with his father, also an architect. Per the subtitle, some of the sketches were “made in connection with actual projects,” while many were “the result of study during leisure moments.” I found Kirby’s eye for the human elements in his sketches particularly endearing, from the foreground figures to details on the buildings themselves, like open widows and overgrown foliage, or what looks like a duvet cover hanging out to dry (first image above).

For any music buffs reading, the final sketch includes some bars of "Très-jolie" from the opéra comique smash hit La Fille de Madame Angot.

Our copy of Architectural Compositions was gifted to UWM by Gustav A. Elgeti in 1966.

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-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#Decorative Sunday #Architectural Compositions #Henry P. Kirby #Henry Petit & Green #Bates Kimball & Guild #The Architectural Review #George B. Post #École des Beaux-Arts #La Fille de Madame Angot #decorative plates #decorative arts #beaux-arts #architecture #architectural drawings #architectural plates #olivia

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vintagehomecollection · 1 year

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Bathrooms, 1996

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