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The Virgin as a child, spinning thread in the Temple of Jerusalem - garlanded by flowers - late C17th, Cuzco School, (a story from the apocryphal gospels) #Peru #EarlyModern #flowers #C17th #SacredArt #artwork
Tulip, butterfly &, rather less appealingly, bluebottle ~ Seventeenth Century ~ Balthasar van der Ast #Dutch #EarlyModern #C17th #flower #butterfly #artworks
Rather splendid couple from Trevelyon's Miscellany, 1608 #illustration #costume #history #C17th #EarlyModern #books #FolkArt #NaiveArt
Tile with the arms & initials of Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in the court of Elizabeth I - c1564 ~ made either in #antwerp or by Flemish potter's who had fled to East Anglia to escape religious persecution. #TilesOnTuesday #history #ceramics