Images Dated 2011

Alexander McQueen dress with Magpie motifs

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Textile panel depicting a bird with anhk-cross dating to 5-7th century AD from Akhmim

Textile panel depicting a bird with anhk-cross dating to 5-7th century AD from Akhmim (Upper Egypt) Birds are a common decoration on Coptic textiles and were associated with the seasons. This bird could be a migratory Quail depicted with the wreathed cross that takes the form of the pharaonic ankh the symbol for life

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19th century Stained glass window in St Cuthberts Chapel on Inner Farne Island Northumberland

19th century Stained glass window in St Cuthbert's Chapel on Inner Farne Island Northumberland depicting a pelican in her piety. The Pelican-in-her-Piety is an allegorical depiction of Jesus Christ, in both His sacrificial love and resurrection. In an age when literacy was limited, the image of the Pelican-in-her-Piety would have been recognisable and understood by everyone who saw it and was, in particular, interpreted as being symbolic of the Eucharist

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