another wine vessel from the zhou period ... this one from the smithsonian ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://asia-archive.si.edu/learn/for-educators/teaching-china-with-the-smithsonian/explore-by-object/square-lidded-ritual-wine-container-fangyi/

 

 

THIS IS A FANGYOU ... a bronze wine vessel fashioned and cast three thousand years ago in China ... the museum description says the panels show bird motifs ... my question is WHAT KIND OF BIRDS ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1963.103

artist's statements ... i s'pose curators need 'em as a kind of sustaining justification of art's value ... but you and i know that art MUST speak for itself after we've gone ... i'll be doing a very modest exhibition in a remote place this summer and this will be my statement ... framed nicely, of course ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

... enuff said ... we all know that too much art doesn't really speak, it merely mutters & whimpers, &/or utters guttural nonsenses ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE GLAMOROUS ACTRESS LINDEN TRAVERS PAINTED THIS PICTURE IN 1939 !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linden_Travers

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeducJKJNbM

 

 

 

another handful of trump cards ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

wimmin in white ... part XXI ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

to be continued ... as & whenever new or old pictures are discovered ...

 

my TRUMP CARDS so far ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SPENCER METAL GROUP AT MELKSHAM ... a pattern for a casting, maybe ?

i rescued this object from a tip next to a junk shop in the old melksham market, probably in the late seventies ... it looks like a pattern for the foundry to cast ... my best guess, after forty-something years of ownership, is that it might have been for a rotary spreader above a circular sieve ...

it is a wonderful piece of woodworking precision and i'm guessing it might have regularized the flow of something like wheat or barley ... i would dearly love to know !