A green velvet dog-collar owned by the Swedish King Karl XI (1655 - 1697), made in the early 1670's, currently situated at Livrustkammaren in Stockholm - [3325 x 3324]

image
Read also:

The Valley of the Mills (Valle dei Mulini) in Sorrento, Italy. These 13th-century flour mills, built from stone, used to have access to the sea, but construction of the Piazza Tasso in 1866 cut it off. They were abandoned in the 1940s, and greenery quickly overtook the whole valley [1920x2559]

image

Diana Nemorensis, cult-statue head of the goddess Diana called "Nemorensis"; a local variant of the goddess addressed with that title due to her sanctuary near Lake Nemi, south of Rome, Italy. Pennsylvania University Museum. [1265x1600]

image

Silver soup tureen by Charles Louis Boehme, Baltimore, Md., ca. 1800. Baltimore Museum of Art [4000x3000] [OC]

image

Ancient Greek Sarcophagus Of Aged Lap Dog With Stone-Inlaid Jeweled Collar Sitting On Bedding - The Animal Must Have Had Its Small Head Turned In The Direction Of The Ancient Road, Looking At The Passers-By With Its Expressive Glance. [1060x1500]

image

In Macedonia, bronze Phrygian caps date back to the 2nd century BC. BC e. transformed into Thracian helmets, with an elongated cumpole and a simple low metal crest or plume of feathers. [1280x792]

image

Robe à la polonaise. American, 1780–1785 [1488 x 1861][OS]

image

Vase depicting a man and a woman on a reed boat, Naqada II Egypt (3500-320 [800×1068]

image

Helmet in the Shape of a Crouching Rabbit. (Japan 17th Century) [1125x1115]

image

Roman cured ham-themed sundial necklace from Herculaneum (79 AD), now at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli. You can see the trotter and tail! The tail, which is missing the end, acted as the gnomon (the part of a sundial that casts a shadow) [1119x1423]

image

Bottles of the oldest rum in the world; cellar of Harewood House, made in Barbados in 1780 and shipped to Britain. [1800x942].

image