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Pervy sculptures

I found this bizarre as fuck sculpture being sold at auction at Christies next month. Here’s the description:

Modelled and cast in three elements, showing a naked girl standing beside the head of a satyr, the satyr and girl can be removed from the marble base (the interior of which shows a vagina) to reveal an erect penis by which the naked girl can be re- positioned

PRINT THIS POST WORDS: 2/27/12 — 12:45pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/Zs-mHyH7rw_Y Filed under: #christies  #sculpture  #art  #art history  #naked  #vagina  #satyrs 
Rocking chair carved wood and horse hair with shells and pigments Measurements: height 138 cm This is up for auction at Shapiro

Rocking chair

carved wood and horse hair with shells and pigments

This is up for auction at Shapiro

Notes: 6 2/21/12 — 4:05pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/Zs-mHyGoTH83 Filed under: #art  #sculpture  #chairs  #decorative arts  #skulls  #zombies  #creepy 
COME AT ME, BRO! JOHN STEUART CURRY John Brown Lithograph, 1939

COME AT ME, BRO!

JOHN STEUART CURRY
John Brown

Lithograph, 1939

Notes: 2 2/13/12 — 11:50am Short URL: http://tmblr.co/Zs-mHyGMPFzM Filed under: #art  #art history  #lithographs  #bros 

laurenjenae:

Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas.

Source: yagyou
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An Altrohlau pottery skull pattern tobacco jar and cover, 5.5ins high *These are up up for auction at Canterbury Auction Galleries on 2/14/2012

An Altrohlau pottery skull pattern tobacco jar and cover, 5.5ins high

*These are up up for auction at Canterbury Auction Galleries on 2/14/2012

Notes: 4 2/1/12 — 10:05am Short URL: http://tmblr.co/Zs-mHyFjEO_d Filed under: #art  #arthistory  #skulls  #tobacco  #vanitas 
Boys on ‘roids. Giovanni di Ser Giovianni Guido, Scheggia (San Giovanni Valdarno 1406-1486 Florence)Desco da parto: Two boys at play tempera and oil on panel 25 in. (63.5 cm.) diameter

Boys on ‘roids.

Giovanni di Ser Giovianni Guido, Scheggia (San Giovanni Valdarno 1406-1486 Florence)
Desco da parto: Two boys at play
tempera and oil on panel
25 in. (63.5 cm.) diameter

Notes: 3 1/3/12 — 2:50pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/Zs-mHyED3Y90 Filed under: #art  #art history  #italian art  #cherubs  #roidrage  #roidfight  #aryanyouth 
O’ where o’ where did that fishy go?

O’ where o’ where did that fishy go?

High-res Notes: 1 11/21/11 — 2:04pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/Zs-mHyCDyUp- Filed under: #art  #japanese  #ivory 
A Shibayama Style Inlaid Ivory Skull, late 20th century, depicting a worn skull with inlay depicting insects, signed Shozan. Length 1 1/2 inches.

A Shibayama Style Inlaid Ivory Skull,
late 20th century, depicting a worn skull with inlay depicting insects, signed Shozan.
Length 1 1/2 inches.

High-res 9/19/11 — 9:42am Short URL: http://tmblr.co/Zs-mHy9i1DzN
A PAINTED COMPOSITE AND WOOD BOAR’S HEAD STAND PROBABLY AUSTRIAN, EARLY 20TH CENTURY With hinged cover, raised on antlers, paper retailer label to underside 27½ in. (70 cm.) high

A PAINTED COMPOSITE AND WOOD BOAR’S HEAD STAND
PROBABLY AUSTRIAN, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
With hinged cover, raised on antlers, paper retailer label to underside
27½ in. (70 cm.) high

Notes: 1 6/9/11 — 4:09pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/Zs-mHy5xAVwZ
We are from France. William Hoare (near Eye, Suffolk 1707-1792 Bath)Portrait of Dorothy Richardson

We are from France.

William Hoare (near Eye, Suffolk 1707-1792 Bath)Portrait of Dorothy Richardson
Notes: 5 5/26/11 — 9:45am Short URL: http://tmblr.co/Zs-mHy5Tb74N Filed under: #art  #arthistory  #coneheads