EditorialGoblet or Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, Cup on foot. Both the foot, the body and the lid are decorated with lobe medallions, driven at the bottom and combined with dot engraving at the top. The trunk is shaped like a satyr, the lid is crowned by ...
EditorialSword with equestrian motifs, The iron hilt is chiseled with an openwork, almost three-dimensional figure of a soldier in Spanish equipment and a galloping horse, it is also carved in high relief with horsemen and decorated with dragon heads and masks,...
EditorialPortrait of Hieronymus Simons van Alphen Hieronymus van Alphen (title on object), Portrait of Hieronymus Simons van Alphen in a illusionistic three-dimensional oval, with his left hand protruding over the edge. With caption in Dutch and Latin., Hierony...
EditorialPortrait of Lambert Bidloo, Portrait half-length of Lambert Bidloo in a illusionistic three-dimensional oval, with his right hand protruding over the edge. Below the portrait an empty field for his name., Lambert Bidloo, Jacob Houbraken, Amsterdam, 170...
EditorialPortrait of Abraham Bogaert Abraham Bogaert (title on object), Bust by Abraham Bogaert in an architectural, illusionistic three-dimensional oval on which his name, with his cloak protruding over the edge. Below the portrait is a plinth on which a plaqu...
EditorialPair of vases (Vases Ad?laide) 'Vase Ad?laide', Vase of porcelain with high set, small, leaf-curled ears, on square gilt base, painted in gold and platinum with Renaissance-like ornament borders with multicolored butterflies and three-dimensional 'ston...
EditorialWater jug, thick-bellied water jug with large, outward-curved mouth. Handle in the form of a weasel. Blue decoration of flower sprays and three Buddhist lions in dark blue on white. The heads of the lions are three-dimensional and can be used as a bear...
EditorialPair of vases (Vases Ad?laide) 'Vase Ad?laide', Vase of porcelain with high set, small, leaf-curled ears, on square gilt base, painted in gold and platinum with Renaissance style. ornament borders with multicolored butterflies and three-dimensional 'st...
EditorialBronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman, Classical, mid-5th century B.C., Greek, Argive, Bronze, H. 15 15/16 in. (40.41 cm), Bronzes, The integration of three-dimensional figures into the design of a functional object is a hallmark o...
EditorialStela of Kemes, Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 13, ca. 1750?1720 BC, From Egypt, Limestone, L. 66.2 cm (26 1/16 in.); H. 73.4 cm (28 7/8 in.); W. 33.9 cm (13 3/8 in.), This monument, dedicated to a man named Kemes, is a rare example of a memorial stela with a...
Editorial????? ???????????? ?????, A Teenage Boy and Girl with a Viewer for an Optique Picture (Nozoki-karakuri); Kobo Daishi?s Poem on the Jewel River of Koya (Koya no Tamagawa: Kobo Daishi), Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1788, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print;...
EditorialEuropean: Miniature Dresser, European, 19th century, Oak, This miniature oak dresser was likely created as doll furniture for a child. During the nineteenth century, miniature furniture pieces were also used by craftsman as models to advertise their wo...
EditorialBedcover, 1830/1905, Sarah Stewart (American, 1823?1905), United States, Cotton, plain weave, quilted diagonally throughout, with additional three-dimensional quilting, 239.4 x 216.5 cm (94 1/4 x 85 1/4 in.).
EditorialBronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman, Classical, mid-5th century B.C., Greek, Argive, Bronze, H. 15 15/16 in. (40.41 cm), Bronzes, The integration of three-dimensional figures into the design of a functional object is a hallmark o...
EditorialSeated Male Deity Supporting a Vajra on His Finger, Eastern Javanese period, last quarter of 10th?first half of 11th century, Indonesia (Java, Ngandjuk), Bronze, H. 3 9/16 in. (9 cm), Sculpture, Small sculptures such as these are now identified as imag...