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A pair of solid gold earrings, modelled as galleons, with gold wire masts & rigging, enamel decoration and pearls, 1600s
A woman’s “poesy ring” with initials, from 1592, made of gold and rock crystal. On the ring’s inner surface is inscribed, “The cruel seas, remember, took him in November.” From a love token to a memorial/ mourning ring, a fate that often befell many wives or mistresses of sailors.
how can i resent this world, how can I ever feel alone and untethered, when there's so much green, welcoming me with a wide mouth?
WE ARE THE FORGOTTEN ORPHANS WHO ONLY KNOW DIVINITY THROUGH THE EMBRACE OF THE RAGING SEA.
Stormy Sea, by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky // Sand and Foam, by Gibran Khalil Gibran // The Mediterranean in the Ancient World, by Fernand Braudel // Irene, by Simon Harsent / The Invading Surf, by Frederick Judd Waugh // I Lived the Beloved Name, by Odysseus Elytis // The Silt Verses: Chapter 15 // Bering Sea During a Storm // The Stranger's Picnic, Mahmoud Darwish.
Octopus Chatelaine. Manufactured by William B. Kerr & Co. in Newark, New Jersey, ca. 1900. Medium is 800 silver, sterling silver. From the collection of Mary Nunn, exhibited by SFO Museum for their 'The Allure of Art Nouveau' exhibition, Feb 13, 2016–Aug 26, 2016.
(Source: sfomuseum.org)
Bottle green and pale gold sea. Details: Stormy Seas, 1922, by Diyarbakirli Tahsin.
Sheep on the Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
by Bill Robertson
