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chiarashipseveryone:

Long live the King

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non-westernhistoricalfashion:

Filigree Necklace
Place of origin: Calicut, India (made)
Date:ca. 1850 (made)
Materials and Techniques:
Gold wire, with stamped florets and applied flat discs and hemispheres
Notes from the V&A

This gold necklace was one of the earliest Indian objects bought for what would become the Victoria and Albert Museum. It was exhibited at the 1851 Great Exhibition as “modern” work from Calicut, and was bought for the considerable sum of £30 for the new South Kensington Museum as an example of the best international contemporary design. The jeweller has manipulated a relatively small amount of gold to maximum effect to create interlinked motifs of filigree to which very small elements have been applied. These were made by hammering pieces of thin sheet gold onto a metal die over shaped depressions thereby producing identical motifs.

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fckyeaharthistory:

Caravaggio - The Martyrdom of St Matthew (detail),  1599-1600. Oil on canvas 

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steamboatbilljr:

April 1927: Katharine Hepburn in the role of Oliver Blayds-Conway for a Bryn Mawr production of The Truth About Blayds by A. A. Milne

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Oh honey, why so blue? French beehives take a mysterious colorful turn
(Photo: Vincent Kessler / Reuters)
Reuters — Bees at a cluster of apiaries in northeastern France have been producing honey in mysterious shades of blue and green, alarming their keepers who now believe residue from containers of M&M’s candy processed at a nearby biogas plant is the cause.
Read the complete story.

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ballet-ballet-ballet:

Christopher Wheeldon

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, in a letter to his editor written in July, 1922. He was referring to The Great Gatsby.

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