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Day: December 12, 2009
Jewelled butterflies and cephalopods
Above: gold, silver & enamel butterfly and squid, both by John Paul Miller. More at this Flickr page.
Below: Tintenfisch und Schmetterling (Octopus and Butterfly; 1900) by Wilhelm Lucas von Cranach, a master jeweller who liked his octopuses.
Tips by Chateau Thombeau and Fine & Dandy (NSFW).
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Geoffrey Haberman’s brass insects
• Elizabeth Goluch’s precious metal insects
• Kelly McCallum’s insect art
• The art of Jo Whaley
• The art of Philippe Wolfers, 1858–1929
• Lalique’s dragonflies
• Lucien Gaillard