How still this early furry beast - perhaps a large - stands, yearning to be out of doors as it waits for the blustery weather to end.
It's a fragment of an 8th-century decorative mount of some kind, found in Norfolk. https://t.co/K3IaJhE7MV

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A gilt-bronze camel statue has just been unearthed from one of the 20 Qin Dynasty tombs in Xi'an, dating back to 220 BC.

The relics discovered indicate the trade between China and the Mideast via the Silk Road could take place long before the Han Dynasty 2,000 years ago.

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Another exciting discovery in 2019 is the excavation of a subsidiary tomb of the First Emperor's mausoleum. Besides bronzes & jades, it yields a gold (or gilt?) Bactrian camel, adding evidence to contacts between the First Empire of China & Central Asia through the Silk Road.

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Earliest and only individual portrait of a black African, c.1525-30, coll. On his bonnet there is a gold or silver-gilt pilgrim’s badge of Our Lady of Hall in Belgium, which can also a interpreted as a sign of his Christianity and trustworthiness.

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parcel-gilt sterling silver ice bowl designed circa 1877 by Edward C. Moore sold for $125,000 (est. $25,000/35,000) at https://t.co/fPKnehJfnH

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14th Day of Advent. Heavy snow & Hare missed her mother desperately, so she brought out her old button tin & laid the button-jewels in patterns across the kitchen table. Pearl, ceramic, gilt, glass & plastic, enamelled, shanked, roped & fisheye, in every colour, shape & size.

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18th Century dress detail, silk brocaded with silk & silver gilt threads, stomacher trimmed with silver-gilt lace & silk flowers, 1745-1750 but altered 1770 via

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11th Day of Advent. Edging the forest of Fontainebleau, Rosa Bonheur's tower bedroom is flooded with winter light. Gilt bird cages, easels, paints, typewriter, dark velvet bed, animals below, electric lights illuminating the darkness. O I have made the forest my temple, she says

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Heute gibt es eine gratis-Postkarte im Adventskalender.
Sie kann allerdings nur mit anderen Produkten oder Türchen zusammen bestellt werden.
Das Angebot gilt natürich bis 30.12 :)

https://t.co/VwCXmEiseP

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A good fire of birch & juniper & on the scrubbed table, brun lapskaus stew, bread & butter & sweet black tea. Bitter cold outside, almost too cold to breathe, but he sketches the end of the light & the first stars, pierce-gilt stars in the high, high darkness over the drifts.

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🐘 Two different but equally gorgeous elephant portraits by the talented Katy Jade Dobson - which one is your favourite?
⭐️ HARMONY
⭐️ GILT

Harmony AP4 in gallery today - £595
Gilt std edition in gallery today - £435

Call us on 📞 0121 704 9248 to reserve your favourite!

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Auch Moruda gilt nun als bestätigt!
https://t.co/A58hisKsRu

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Envy like Midas!
See Apollo's chariot--
ruinous desire.

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Lie in state, quiet,
incorruptible as gold,
and just as lifeless.



For some reason, gold never makes me think of good.
It must be a gilt-ed conscience.

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How to make sense of the juxtaposition of a quintessential Chinese tombstone & a funerary couch turned into a Sasanian-style gilt vessel? My conclusion: An Jia saw himself as a mediator between Chinese & Sasanian cultures; he celebrated this dual identity with remarkable stones.

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Pieter (Piat) Joseph Sauvage produced the most sophisticated of all trompe l'oeil decorations - showing off his ability to imitate, as here, marble, plaster, gilt and bronze

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Proust would only drink coffee bought from Maison Corcellet at 8 rue de Lévis, served on a silver tray with a small silver coffee pot, engraved with his initials, a gilt edge bowl decorated with the family crest & piping hot milk in a porcelain jug.

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たまにはキラキラしたものも描こうかしらと思いまして。
ゆめかわいいインクを使いました。

この連休は風邪をひいてずっと寝こんでます(;ω;)ヒーン。

使用インク: pink gilt tynte,Violet dreams,シャーベットブルー

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There in the little sunken cottage, swallows nesting in the thatch & the quilt all thin & worn, she put on the dress of cloth of silver, of prickled gilt briar & sheen of stars. And as she walked into the forest, the dress scattered shards of silver light amidst the trees.

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AD in the sense, that this is a Recommendation (German, because i am recommending a German Movie that just hit the theatres). Ich musste ein Fanart zu Endzeit zeichnen. Endzeit ist DIESE WOCHE im Kino (gilt das als Werbung? Ich mag den Film sehr und möch… https://t.co/5cN4I24nKQ

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