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Fumée d'ambre gris (Smoke of Ambergris) (media.clarkart.edu)
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John Singer Sargent

oil on canvas

1880

Clark Art Institute

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[–] craftyindividual@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I still love the fact that most things coming out of a whale are revolting, but very occasionally they make an extremely expensive scent nugget. Apparently it forms around a blockage or sharp object in the whale's digestive tract, such as a squid beak.