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Ernest Pig 🐽
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Retired boar on small holding opining on pigs and other interesting matters. Owned by MrsH.
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ErnestPig's Advent Calendar Day 24
Pig’s kiss on the cheek.
Illustration by Gerhard Gluck
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A happy looking man holding a champagne flute is sitting in a chair by a snowy window. He has a lipstick kiss on his cheek in the shape of a pig’s nose. Next to him a small pink pig sits on a side table with a toothy grin.
December 24, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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ErnestPig's Advent Calendar Day 23
Illustration of a boar from The Luttrell Psalter.
14th Century, British Library
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A ginger boar with tusks and black spots. This illustration is in the margin of a medieval prayer book
December 23, 2024 at 2:42 PM
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ErnestPig's Advent Calendar Day 22
Wooden bookend pig
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Two bookends. One has the front of a carved spotted wooden pig and one has the back of a carved spotted wooden pig.
December 23, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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ErnestPig's Advent Calendar Day 21
Good luck pigs
Victorian card, New York Public Library
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An illustrated card showing 2 pink pigs in the snow pulling the decorations off a Christmas Tree. There is a German caption which translates to Good Luck Pigs.
December 23, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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ErnestPig's Advent Calendar Day 20
The Runaway by Rebecca Campbell
Oil on panel
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A painting of the inside of a tent at a county fair. There are a number of stalls with interested pigs in each one. The pigs are of different breeds. At the end of the tent is an opening and you can just see a pig keeper running after a spotted pig.
December 23, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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ErnestPig's Advent Calendar Day 19
Pigs in blankets
Christmas card from The Terrence Higgens Trust
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A drawing of 3 pink pigs walking in a line in a snowy scene. Each pig is wearing a different patterned colourful blanket over its back. In the background are houses, trees and a snowy night sky.
December 19, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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ErnestPig's Advent Calendar Day 18
Patio pig side table.
Painted resin.
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A brightly painted pig with spots, strips and a big daisy on its back. It is standing upright and its back is flattened to make the table top.
December 19, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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ErnestPig's Advent Calendar Day 17
A sitting pig carved in chalcedony with olivine eyes.
By Faberge 1907. In the Royal Collection.
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Side view of a sitting pig carved in pinkish chalcedony.
December 17, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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ErnestPig's Advent Calendar Day 16
'Prize Old Spot Pig'
Oil on canvas by J.A.T in 1890
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Oil painting of an old fashioned spotted pig standing in a brick barn looking out of a green wooden door.
December 17, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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ErnestPig's Advent Calendar Day 15
Cotton handkerchief pigs from Thornback and Peel
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3 white handkerchiefs folded in a box. Each handkerchief has a print of a pink pig on it and they are folded so that each hankie shows a portion of the pig to make up one full picture.
December 17, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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ErnestPig's Advent Calendar Day 14
Vintage enamelled good luck charm featuring a charming pig
C 1900
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A small metal hinged box with an enamelled painting of a pig in on side. The pig is running through a field.
December 17, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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ErnestPig's Advent Calendar Day 13
Le Pig
A print made in the American Folk Art tradition by Daniel Patrick Kessler.
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A flat stylized drawing of a black spotted pig on a yellow background with the title 'Le Pig' written above.
December 17, 2024 at 3:05 PM
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ErnestPig's Advent Calendar Day 12
French misericord from the church of Saint-Lucien-de-Beauvais. Now in Cluny Museum.
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A wooden carving of a pig, sitting on its haunches and wearing a hood while playing an organ
December 17, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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ErnestPig's Advent Calendar Day 11
Pigasus
Sculpture cast in bronze by David Paynter
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A bronze sculpture of a pig standing on its hind legs, front legs off the ground and wings spread - ready for take off!
December 17, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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ErnestPig’s Advent Calendar Day 10
Pigs in mud chocolate cake
Photograph by Yasmin AlAmelli
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Photograph of 4 pink sugar pigs swimming on the top of a chocolate cake.
December 17, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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ErnestPig’s Advent Calendar Day 9
A box tree pig from the topiary garden at Compton Wynyates House, Warkwickshire circa 1895.
Photograph from The Book of Topiary by Charles H. Curtis
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A black and white photo of a topiary hedge pig
December 17, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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ErnestPig’s Advent Calendar Day 8
Modern Egyptian hand blown pig ornament
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A hand blown glass pig ornament with pricked ears and gold markings
December 17, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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Flown over here ....
*waves hello
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A lithograph depicting blue sky with pink clouds and 3 flying pigs. The pigs have glorious wings.
November 19, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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ErnestPig’s Advent Calendar Day 7
The Well of Pigs in Aarhus, Denmark. A copy of an original granite sculpture group made by Mogens Bøggild
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A granite table over a rectangular pond in a street. On the table sits a carved sow with a large and lively litter of piglets.
December 7, 2023 at 1:37 PM
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ErnestPig’s Advent Calendar Day 6
19th century child’s antique carousel pig
Nikki Page Antiques
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A carved wooden pig wearing a saddle and carrying a bell in its mouth. The carving is very detailed.
December 7, 2023 at 1:34 PM
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ErnestPig’s Advent Calendar Day 5
Ceramic Roman roof tile depicting an inscription of the Twentieth Legion with their symbol of a boar. Found in Wales. Now displayed in The British Museum
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A triangular roof tlie depicting an embossed boar below the letters LEG XX (meaning this belongs to the 20th Legion)
December 5, 2023 at 10:30 AM
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ErnestPig’s Advent Calendar Day 4
Archie Parkhouse and his pig Photograph by James Ravilious August 1974
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Archie stands in a filed on the left, leaning on a post. His sow is on the right with her nose and trotters in a feed trough. The photo is in black and white
December 5, 2023 at 10:27 AM
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ErnestPig’s Advent Calendar Day 3
An early 20th Century Wemyss ceramic pig
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A highly glazed white ceramic pig sitting on its haunches and painted with black spots and splotches
December 5, 2023 at 10:26 AM
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ErnestPig’s Advent Calendar Day 2
Wild Boar wallpaper by lushlampshades.co.uk
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Cream wallpaper covered in an assortment od cheerful looking baors and sows and piglets running through a forest of mushrooms and trees. All the colours are in the muted sepia/brown range
December 5, 2023 at 10:25 AM
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ErnestPig's Advent Calendar Day 1
The Pigs
Charcoal line drawing by Pablo Picasso
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A simple line drawing of a sow standing with 3 piglets
December 5, 2023 at 10:22 AM