Mercer ad Mortem

Season by Christina Bothwell (American, b.1960 ) Medium: cast glass and ceramic.

from The Waddesdon Manor Art Collection

Russian crosses-pendants, 17-18 centuries.

Morris was a friend and contemporary of Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Crafted from rock crystal and silver-gilt, and it was designed as a vessel for relics of Mary Magdalene.

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From Deir el-Medina, Thebes. Now in the Egyptian Museum of Turin. Suppl. 6138

Photographer: H. Armstrong Roberts

Amber Bug Fossils

The Kissing Knife, The Thorn Knife, The Leather Knife, The Black Knife - Chloe Arrouy

Cemetery gate, Portugal. "Here I wait you"

The Sacrum bone of Tequixquiac, discovered in Mexico, is an ancient paleo-Indian sculpture of a canine, carved in a pleistocene-era bone of a prehistoric camel. The carving, dated around 14,000 to 7,000 BCE, is considered among the earliest pieces of art from the American continent.

Forever Yours Perfume (1930) by Babs Creations. Featuring notes of florals and aldehydes.

Adam and Eve expelled from Eden, detail of the pulpit in the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula, Brussels-Belgium by Hendrik Frans Verbrugghen

Rare miniature funerary figurine known as a Tödlein. The human skull carved from bone as the body lies in its mini casket adorned with a mother-of-pearl cross. A time when death was apart of everyday life and when it was normalized to carry reminders of said death.