Centauresse Size:53 x 76 cm (21 x 30") Japanese silk painting of a

Japanese silk painting of a lotus flower (c

This mythical creature was said to be found on the shores of the lake in Peru in 1784

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Antique photograph of a Victorian era actress playing Shakespeare's Ophelia

Centauresse Size:53 x 76 cm (21 x 30") Japanese silk painting of aIllustration (c. 1920s) of a Centauresse, or Centauride (Kentauride) from Greek mythology. A female member of the Centaur (Kentauroi) tribe. 'In the high woods there was none comelier of all the centaur girls.. She combed her glossy hair, and twined her curls in turn with rosemary or violets or roses, and sometimes she wore a pure white lily. Twice a day she bathed her face in the clear brook that fell from Pagasaes high forest, twice she plunged her