{"product_id":"ceramic-hexagon-jigsaw-2","title":"The Hexagon Jigsaw — Radiolaria | The Haeckel Archive","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn 1887, Ernst Haeckel looked through a microscope at the ocean and found geometry so perfect it could only be described as art. He spent the rest of his life trying to prove it.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis puzzle is drawn directly from Haeckel’s \u003cem\u003eSynopsis Radiolariorum et Heliozoorum\u003c\/em\u003e, Vol. I — the same scientific plates that inspired the trinket pot in The Haeckel Archive series, here expanded to their full compositional ambition. At the centre, \u003cem\u003eAcanthometra radiata\u003c\/em\u003e floats against a ground of deep stellar blue, its latticed sphere radiating outward in perfect symmetry. Around it, the peripheral hexagonal tiles carry the supporting specimens — each annotated in the original Latin of the plate: \u003cem\u003eTab. XXVIII, Fig. II, Fig. IV\u003c\/em\u003e — spined, spherical, crystalline forms that look less like living organisms and more like the blueprints of a universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAssembled, it becomes a scientific plate. Disassembled, it is a cabinet of microscopic wonders. In either state, it is an object that rewards attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eThe Object\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eFired in ceramic and presented in a handsome hexagonal wooden box lined with ivory linen, this is a puzzle conceived as a collectible — something to be displayed as readily as it is solved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eForm:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hexagonal ceramic jigsaw tiles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMaterial:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ceramic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePresentation:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hexagonal wooden box, ivory linen lining\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDesign source:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ernst Haeckel, \u003cem\u003eSynopsis Radiolariorum\u003c\/em\u003e, 1887\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFinish:\u003c\/strong\u003e Archival-grade full-surface print\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMade to order\u003c\/strong\u003e — produced with intention, never in excess\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePart of The Haeckel Archive, curated for The Canvas Collective.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Canvas Collective","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52872535933194,"sku":"2970388","price":160.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0945\/0065\/1274\/files\/2970388_ceramic-hexagon-jigsaw_0_914abe34-76a0-4b60-be16-832d1732cddb.jpg?v=1776546893","url":"https:\/\/thecanvascollective.shop\/products\/ceramic-hexagon-jigsaw-2","provider":"The Canvas Collective","version":"1.0","type":"link"}