Morse (clasp for a liturgical cope) with the Annunciation, made in Europe in the 13th century.
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~ Thursday, September 20 ~
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Polly Morgan - Carrion Call (2009) - wood coffin, taxidermy quail chicks
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~ Wednesday, September 19 ~
René Lalique (1860-1945), Pocket watch, c. 1900. Yellow gold, classical watch mechanism. Decorated with masks, after a drawing by Rodin. Diameter: 5 cm.
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Wax anatomical models of man and woman; half-skeleton, half-living, in fashionable Regency garments.
It’s unknown if these models were intended as a darkly comic “memento mori” sort of novelty, or a teaching aid, or both.
The skeletons are accurate enough to have been used to teach students how the articulations line up in the living body, so even as a novelty, they may have had an educational use.
Models located at Science Museum London, originally created ca. 1810-1830.
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~ Tuesday, September 18 ~
Unknown health hazards did not seem to present issues with photographers keen to exploit the miracle that was X-Ray photography when first discovered in late 1895. Although it is not known what the exposure time for this 3 day old child was when Philadelphia photographer John Carbutt recorded it in 1896, exposures of over 1 hour in length are commonly mentioned. This photograph appeared as a full-page halftone in the December, 1896 issue of “The American Amateur Photographer”. —-via PhotoSeed
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~ Monday, September 17 ~
Cross-section of the head showing brain and cerebellum, by Jean-Baptiste Marc Bourgery
From: Traité complet de l’anatomie de l’homme, Paris 1831-1854 by J.M. Bourgery and N.H. Jacob
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