TITLE:Malagan Figure
ARTIST:Artist Unknown
DATE:c. 1890
MEDIUM:Wood, pigment, shell
DIMENSIONS:78 x 13 1/2 x 12 in. (198.12 x 34.29 x 30.48 cm)
CREATION PLACE:Oceania, Papua New Guinea, New IrelandMIA
Evil Eye Squid Ring by Blue Bayer
This sterling silver evil eye ring is a wax cast featuring two tentacles (of indeterminate tentacle-y origin, but I’m assuming its somebody’s lost pet Kraken) latched firmly onto a ship’s porthole. Blue leaves the identity of the eye caught within up to you, does it belong to the sea creature or is someone trapped within the ship, brought down to the murky depths below? Stare into long enough and maybe it’ll tell you, buy your own at Bayer’s etsy.
Demon harassing St. John. Detail from San Marino, Huntington Library, HM 01104 f.14 c.1400-1415
(via centuriespast)