I went to a museum yesterday - wanna see some historical teaware?
I went to the Royal Ontario Museum yesterday with my husband, and noticed that there was a new exhibit of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese artifacts on the main floor. Of course, that means TEA HARDWARE!!!
So in the interest of geeking out, I took some photos to share:
https://instagram.com/p/7S_3N8RISf/ – a teapot with longevity characters on it
https://instagram.com/p/7TBs8lxIXC/ – a Japanese tea ceremony room
https://instagram.com/p/7TCioQxIZI/ – a 17th century Japanese tea scoop
https://instagram.com/p/7TDCV3RIbA/ – a wooden statue of Guanyin
https://instagram.com/p/7TEcNkRIex/ – yixing pots
https://instagram.com/p/7TFLRuxIQ4/ – more yixing pots
https://instagram.com/p/7TGH-ExITX/ – Korean celadon ceramics
https://instagram.com/p/7TGJGWxITa/ – a video with various Japanese tea paraphernalia
Plus, we visited the Pompeii exhibit, so here are some photos of Pompeian artifacts for the hell of it:
https://instagram.com/p/7Ss8ucxIUS/ – a plaster cast of a dog
https://instagram.com/p/7SuuoHxIYu/ – a marble statue
https://instagram.com/p/7SxQW_RIeT/ – a windchime to ward off evil (somewhat NSFW)
https://instagram.com/p/7SyyAIRISB/ – a wine strainer
I am so geekying out right along side you. I’ve always been fascinated by all things about Pompeii! Thanks for sharing those.
I’m glad you liked them! There was an entire separate room in the Pompeii exhibit that was the “adult” room. In addition to that windchime I took a photo , there were also murals/frescos taken from a brothel, a statue of Pan and a goat (I’m sure you can guess what Pan was doing to the goat), and paintings of Priapus.
Fun fact: The Romans often put small statues of Priapus on their property to deter thieves — it was basically a warning to thieves that if they weren’t careful, Priapus would have his way with them.
I’ve had the chance to visit Pompeii and the museum in Napoli, including the secret room:-). It was both chilling, interesting and very beautiful. I was lucky enough to meet with some of the archeologists and restorationists working at the Museum in Napoli and got to see where they worked.
Like you Nichole I’ve had an interest in Pompeii after studying Latin in high school for a number of years. The Cambridge Latin course was set up as a series of family stories initially situated in Pompeii and that complete with later translations of I think Pliny?‘s observations ( It’s been a while:-)) left with a sense of attachment and curiosity.
Yyz, are those the Caecilius books? I still have those! I took Latin in grade 10 and that same year the Latin teacher retired, so she let her students keep all their textbooks, plus those for subsequent grades. I still have them sitting on my basement bookshelf, though I’ve forgotten a lot of what I learned.
Yes:-). I have my mom’s old Latin text but not that one. I took 4 years of Latin if you can believe it. Our teacher was a lot of fun as well as all the interschool stuff with the Junior Classical League. It was actually one of the more popular classes at my school. One year the played with the curriculum and did an English Latin combined course where we studied Latin, Roman civilisation,art and architecture and every text in the English portion had a classical theme. Either set in ancient Greece or Rome or translations of texts from these periods. Good memories:-).
I just found this thread! I was just there and took some photos as well. :) I don’t think this is all of them, but it’s all the ones I tagged that are public.
https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=60411732%40N00&sort=date-taken-desc&tags=pompeii&view_all=1
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