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Historical Archive: Water birds, Wading birds Ducks have their own page. swan fr. Pazyryk barrow 5, reindeer wool felt, Pazyryk culture 5th-4th c. BCE, Hermitage 1687-260 Leda and the Swan, agate cameo, 1st c. BCE Alexandria, in later gold mount, Hermitage ГP-12692 stork with lizard in bill, jasper intaglio, 1st-6th c., Taubman, Bonner 307 Leda and the swan, mythological sarcophagus, marble, Pécs-Aranyhegy (Hungary) mid 2nd c., HNM 62.85.2 heron: Jonah sarcophagus, c.250-early 4th c., marble, Vat 31448, which has its own page goose: Junius Bassus sarcophagus, c.359, marble, Vat Tesoro 31529.3.1-3, which has its own page swan, bottom: Cathedra of Maximian, ivory, 546-56, RavArchMus, which has its own page goose: Easterton Pictish slab, animals side, sandstone 7th-8th c., NMS X.IB 226, which has its own page wading bird (top): Nagyszentmiklós treasure, gold, 700-750?, KHM VIIb. For more views and companion works see Nagyszentmiklós. Gellone Sacramentary, c.780-800, BN Lat 12048, which has its own page stork: Gellone Sacramentary, c.780-800, BN Lat 12048, which has its own page top left: Epistle of James, 9th to 10th c. White Monastery, Pushkin water birds, bottom: Meeting Abner and Joab at Lake Gabaon, ivory c.870, Louvre MR 374 bone game piece with wading bird, western Europe 11th c., Hermitage goose? ivory oliphant, Sicily/S. Italy c.1000-50, Hermitage Ф-5, which has its own page Byzantine sgraffito ceramic bowl with wading water bird, c.1125-75, V&A C.20-1970. For another view see V&A. stork: St. Francis preaching to birds, prayer book c.1230-40, Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, which has its own page stork on upper left: Muhammad ibn al-Zayn, Baptistère de Saint Louis, Egypt or Syria c.1330-40, Louvre LP16. This work has its own page with more storks. swan, top left: front of an oak chest with heraldic and fantastic beasts, Lower Saxony c.1380, KGM 1884,1688 Kuster family grave stone: coat of arms with 3 swans emerging from a crown, hard red limestone, c.1400, HNM 70.62.1-6 Spinning/reading, wool/silk tapestry, c.1520, Cluny Cl. 2182. For scale and details see Cluny. swan: Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot (1763-1850), Soup tureen 1819, gilded silver, IMA 1997.129A-C Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot (1763-1850), Soup tureen 1819, full. For caryatid detail see IMA.