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Diviner's Staff: Birds (Osun babalawo)
View through The Met
Iron, Yoruba peoples
The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of William B. and Gale D. Simmons 1991
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Diviner's Staff: Bird and Chameleons (Osun babalawo)
Diviner's Staff: Bird and Chameleons (Osun babalawo)
Iron, Yoruba peoples (?)...
Osun, deessa de l'aigua dolça i els rius, acompanyada d'assistents
Osun, deessa de l'aigua dolça i els rius, acompanyada d'assistents
This sculpture could be attributed to Olowe of Ise, a famous Yoruba sculptor from the Nigerian city of Ise-Ekiti. After living as a servant in the royal palace, Olowe gradually gai...
Urn with lid. Kangxi, Qing Dynasty
Urn with lid. Kangxi, Qing Dynasty
The URNA with a lid. Low-neck oviposition Cupy lid with round bud. Main motif consisting of a landscape with two bird Fenix.
Purchased by Johanna Kempe on 22 March 1890 at art de...
Landscape with Poultry and Birds of Prey
Landscape with Poultry and Birds of Prey
Melchior de Hondecoeter was a painter who specialised in depicting birds of all types. He began his training with his father Gijsbert, who also painted animals, as did his grandfat...
Mosaic Pavement with Birds, from Feleet Village Building (Panel B)
Mosaic Pavement with Birds, from Feleet Village Building (Panel B)
This polychrome mosaic floor pavement depicts twelve birds on a plain, white background framed by a decorative, guilloche border in shades of green, yellow, and red. In the center ...
Diviner's Staff: Hornbill and Female Figure
Diviner's Staff: Hornbill and Female Figure
Wood, Bwa or Nuna peoples...
Pen Box with Birds, Butterflies, and Flowers
Pen Box with Birds, Butterflies, and Flowers
Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends. The top is decorated in horizontal format with central cartouche with concentric gold frames containing a songbird. An inscription ...
Romantic Verses, folio from an album made for Shah Jahan
Romantic Verses, folio from an album made for Shah Jahan
The five lines of Persian poetry, likely copied in the 16th century, are extracted from a ghazal (a short lyric love poem) by Jalal Azad, a 14th-century Persian poet and a contempo...