# 1stmarch march2021 internationaltigerday medieval silver cat rijksmuseum

A DOCUMENTARY MEISSEN SILVER-GILT-MOUNTED SNUFF BOX WITH PORTRAIT OF THE ELECTRESS ELISABETH AUGUSTE OF THE PALATINATE, CIRCA 1746-47

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2021-10-17

Welcome to month of March. To mark its arrival, pictured some hares we have sold; sketched, modelled, painted on porcelain, inlaid and in silver-gilt, some more ‘mad’ than others. Starting with ‘The Buck Hare’ by Graham Sutherland (1903-1980) dated '8.8.79'

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2021-03-02

🐯 Happy This beautifully-wrought silver-gilt tiger-headed mace was made in late eighteenth-century India.

Not intended as a weapon, this mace was employed purely for processional use, carried by harbingers to herald the approach of an important official.

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2020-07-30

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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2020-01-14

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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2019-12-29