Art History AnimaliaMar 15, 2025
A lovely #spider piece for #SaveASpiderDay … #PleaseNoSquish 🕷️🕸️:
Spindle with foot plate
Russia, 18th c.
Gold, baroque pearl, rose stones, enamel
W 1.6 x L 1.7 cm, 3 g
Hallwylska Museet:
https://samlingar.shm.se/object/DDE8961C-C2E7-4252-89E6-B86C89E70B03
Claire BarnesMar 15, 2023

@art_history_animalia Fabulous workmanship! a delight to see - & thanks for highlighting #SaveASpiderDay 🕷️

but spare a thought too for the horse #conch ...
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/one-of-the-worlds-biggest-sea-snails-at-risk-of-extinction

Let's celebrate past #craftsmanship & think about the great 🕸️ of life, for future #SustainableJewelry ? - so from now on also

#PleaseNoSquish 🐚 #endangered #SeaCreatures

#HorseConch #Triplofusus #SeaCreature #EndangeredSpecies #Hemmerle #AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory

One of the world’s biggest sea snails at risk of extinction

A century of unregulated harvesting for its gigantic shell has left the horse conch far more vulnerable than scientists realized.

National Geographic