#terra cotta
ancient Egyptian cat sculptures:
Head of Bastet -bronze with amber inlaid eyes and gold ornament - 26th dynasty - c.600 BCE
Bastet- bronze with gold earring - 26th Dynasty - 664-525 BCE
bronze with gold earring - Late Period - c.664-332 BCE
Bastet-terra cotta - Roman Period - 30 BCE-642 CE
Bastet- bronze - Saitic or Ptolemaic Period - 664-31 BCE
Bastet(three views) - bronze with gold and silver ornaments - Saqqara - Late Period - c.664–332 BCE
bronze - Ptolemaic Period - 304-30 BCE
bronze with gold earring - Ptolemaic Period - 304-30 BCE
bronze - Ptolemaic Period - 304-30 BCE
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Protective Sister
Yang, hugging Jaune’s arm: “Hey you all! We’re dating now!”
Terra: “Aw, that’s so sweet.”
Saphron: “You both have fun tonight! But remember-” *puts an arm around Yang’s shoulder and drops to whisper*“Whatever you do to him, I do to you. We clear?”
Yang: “Er… c-crystal.”
Saphron: “Good! Be seeing you then!”
-later-
Jaune: “What’d Saph tell you earlier?”
Yang: “Um, nothing…”
The old McGraw Hill building on West 42nd Street off Eighth Avenue was completed in 1931 by Raymond Hood who also designed the Daily News building. The building has distinctive blue-green terra cotta tiles and has a horizontal orientation the way the brickwork is designed.
The building sits outside the main business district because the zoning of the time did not permit it to be built east of Eighth Avenue because they printed the magazines there, which was considered a “factory” use
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Shards of Lapita pottery, terra cotta, ca. 1000 AD, Solomon Islands.
The Lapita culture is famous for its very refined ceramics. The designs on these shards were made using a stippling technique and this specific style is believed to be at the root of Polynesian aesthetics. The Lapitas spread throughout the Pacific and colonized previously uninhabited islands in Melanesia and Polynesia. Modern Polynesian peoples are the descendants of the Lapitas, who changed their way of life after their establishment on new islands: the Lapita culture then evolved and became the ‘Hawaiki’, the Ancestral Polynesian Society. The newly isolated Polynesians slowly abandoned the Lapita style and started to produce plainware ceramics: this major change is a clear rupture between the former Lapita culture and the new Hawaiki.
Courtesy of teara.govt.nz.
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Picasso, Pablo. Jacqueline in a Flowery Straw Hat. 1964. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Terra-cotta with black slip
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