Esther's photos with the keyword: carved

The design is produced by carving the top red layer of glass until the yellow layer is exposed. New Bedford Museum of Glass AP1066767

Carved figureheads from wooden sailing ships from the 19th Century. Part of the collection at Mystic Seaport in Mystic Connecticut SC41 Sunday Challenge: Collage SCCollage

The Saturday Self-Challenge: Doors This Egyptian door dates from the rule of the Mamluk sultans (1250-1517). It is part of the Islamic art collection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts TSSC20210428 121009

The Saturday Self-Challenge: Fragile This elephant carved within an elephant carving was the victim of an errant dust mop. I normally display it on the non-broken side but for this challenge, I turned it around. TSSC20210320 122313

Dalmation jasper elephant The Saturday Self-Challenge: Minimalism TSSC20200508 152321

The Saturday Self-Challenge: Stairs TSSCIMG 3755

Corning Museum of Glass - Corning, NY - Moorish Bathers. England, Amblecote, Thomas Webb & Sons, carved and engraved by George Woodall, 1898.\ AIMG 6676

The Sunday Challenge: Shoot something from 3 different angles. Convert the 3 pictures to monochrome (doesn't have to be B&W - see link) and arrange them in a triptych TSCTriptych.3

Museo Larco, Lima, Peru AIMG 3748

Plaza de Armas in Trujillo, Peru is surrounded by buildings from the 16th through 19th Century. This ornate door is on one of the buildings on Francisco Pizarro Street. The Sunday Challenge: Doors AIMG 1581

The Sunday Challenge for September 14th is "Get Personal! Something that you own." I like elephants and minerals so I thought that I would post some photographs of both. The minerals starting from the left upper corner, proceeding clockwise and ending at the center are quartz crystal, agate jasper (with jade "log"), unakite, tiger's eye, turquoise*, Dalmation jasper, malachite and lapis lazuli. *The seller claimed that the elephant was carved out of turquoise but I suspect that it was carved out of another stone and dyed turquoise color. It does not have the striations that I would expect in true turquoise. It was an unusual carving, so I bought it anyhow. Elephants

Ollantaytambo, Peru is a town and an Incan fortress dating from the mid-15th century. It is located at an altitude of 9,160 feet. Incan builders did not use mortar and carved the stones to fit. AIMG 0813

Ollantaytambo, Peru is a town and an Incan fortress dating from the mid-15th century. It is located at an altitude of 9,160 feet. Incan builders did not use mortar and carved the stones to fit. AIMG 0817

St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy AIMG_4751

The rooms in the Capitoline Museums are exquisitely decorated from ceiling to floor. They are not to be missed in a visit to Rome. "The Capitoline Museums (Italian Musei Capitolini) are a group of art and archeological museums in Piazza del Campidoglio, on top of the Capitoline Hill in Rome, Italy. The museums are contained in three palazzi surrounding a central trapezoidal piazza in a plan conceived by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1536 and executed over a period of more than 400 years. The history of the museums can be traced to 1471, when Pope Sixtus IV donated a collection of important ancient bronzes to the people of Rome and located them on Capitoline Hill. Since then, the museums' collection has grown to include a large number of ancient Roman statues, inscriptions, and other artifacts; a collection of medieval and Renaissance art; and collections of jewels, coins, and other items." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitoline_Museums AIMG_2666

A beautiful carousel can be found in Roger Williams Park in Rhode Island. IMG_1336

A souvenir store at Swayambhunath, the Monkey Temple, located on a hill overlooking the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. Swayambhunath is an ancient religious complex consisting of a stupa, a number of shrines and temples and a Tibetan monastery, museum and library. AIMG_0332