The RHS Lindley Library

The language of flowers was a 19th-century code used to make bouquets which passed messages between lovers and suitors. Each flower was given its own meaning and they could be combined to create special messages. 

Pictured are a few examples of propaganda porcelain she designed in 1919-1921 in Petersburg.

Avelino Perez bird carvings make nice last minute gifts… (at Zinnia Folk Arts, LLC) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bru3bLZF8gH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=wuh9e1d1trac

Medium: Black basalt

Hand of Sabazios, Alcuni monumenti del Museo Carrafa, 1877

Hand of Sabazios, Catalogue of the bronzes, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, 1899

Antique Japanese Noh mask

Early 1900s Real Photo Postcard, Trick-or-Treaters in masks

Espora ~ Oil on canvas 120x150cm-2015

“The mean of the sea”, “the cyclops” and “the sea bishop” by François Desprez, c. 1562-1564.

Robert Fludd. Frontispiece for Philosophiæ Moysaicæ. 1638. 

The Dragon Devouring the Companions of Cadmus (detail) by Hendrick Goltzius, 1588.

Illustrations of prophecy, particularly the evening and morning visions of Daniel, and the apocalyptical visions of John, 1840