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Brush Rest in the Form of a Dragon
15th century
China
(Met Museum)
Two Country Women Walking in a Landscape,
Gesina ter Borch, 1654
(Rijksmuseum)
Various mushrooms, Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610
(Rijksmuseum)
Three meals from the New Testament.
Christ in the House of Mary and Martha, c. 1520
The Last Supper, c. 1520
Supper at Emmaus, c. 1520
Made in Ulm, unknown artist.
(Rijksmuseum)
Tea pot, London, 1670-1671
"This Siluer tea Pott was presented to ye Com[mi]tte[e] / of ye East India Cumpany by ye Right Honou[rabl]e / George Lord Berkeley of Berkeley Castle / A member of that Honourable & worthy Society & A True Hearty Louer of them 1670"
(V&A Museum)
Tea canister, slip-cast red stoneware with gilt-metal mounts, made by David and John Philip Elers, Staffordshire, 1690-1698.
The size of these little canisters [13cm high] and the tiny teapots reflects the very high price of tea in this period.
(V&A Museum, London)
28 June 1650: in the early hours #otd d. John Venn, regicide (Houghton Library/ Medal of Charles I, BM)
Hans Simon Holtzbecker, c. 1649-1659.
Tomato [Solanum lycopersicum L.]
Some mid-17th century tomatoes.
(Statens Museum for Kunst, Danmark)
Portrait of a young woman
PP Rubens, b. #otd 28 June 1577
(Musée du Louvre)