EditorialFive scenes from the Old Testament, Five round glasses with scenes from the Old Testament in a wooden setting. On the glass far left Adam and Eve at the tree with the snake. The glass to the right of it: Cain kills Abel, Abel on the ground and Cain ben...
EditorialSolon of Athens Solon Salaminius (title on object) The seven sages of Greece (series title), A man in military clothing, full-length portrait, seen on the left, standing by a building, a large block on the right shoulder, a glove and a spear for the fe...
EditorialBirth of Venus, The naked Venus stands with a foot on a large shell. In the background the sea with two dolphins. Up in the clouds Saturn that is about to castrate his father Uranus with a saber., Venus Anadyomene: after Uranus' castration Venus rises ...
EditorialChair Rosewood chair. The back has two rungs with arches, supported by ebony balusters. Rosewood chair. The furniture has a upholstered seat and rests on legs, which exhibit housing and articulation and are connected by four brace-shaped lower sports a...
EditorialBowl with panel decoration with lady or boys in a landscape, Porcelain bowl with wall-shaped petals and scalloped edge, painted in underglaze blue. Around the foot a band with petal-shaped compartments in which stylized lotus flowers, alternatively wid...
EditorialCain kills Abel Scenes from Genesis, Cain is about to hit Abel with his bone raised. He has grabbed Abel by the hair and pushes him to the ground. The print is part of a seven-part series with scenes from the Bible book Genesis, the killing of Abel: Ca...
EditorialCarpet with the arms of Rogier de Beaufort, Turenne and De Comminges (fragment), Fragment of a tapestry. On blue ground a pattern of diamond-shaped figures formed by four storks has been applied in white, red, yellow, light and dark brown and black, al...
EditorialTerracotta mold fragment, Hellenistic, ca. 300?100 B.C., Greek, South Italian, Terracotta, Overall: 5 5/8 x 3in. (14.3 x 7.6cm), Terracottas, The mold, covered with a variety of different symbols, has been seen as being used for stamping sacred cakes. ...
EditorialTadorna radjah, Print, The radjah shelduck (Radjah radjah), is a species of shelduck found mostly in New Guinea and Australia, and also on some of the Moluccas. It is known alternatively as the raja shelduck, black-backed shelduck, or in Australia as t...
EditorialPitta venusta, Print, The graceful pitta (Erythropitta venusta), sometimes alternatively known as the black-crowned pitta (although another species is more regularly called black-crowned pitta (Erythropitta ussheri), is a species of bird in the family ...
EditorialChaetodon capistratus, Print, The foureye butterflyfish (Chaetodon capistratus) is a butterflyfish (family Chaetodontidae). It is alternatively called the four-eyed butterflyfish. This species is found in the Western Atlantic from Massachusetts, USA an...
EditorialLovers' brooch, set alternatively with cabochon rubies and sapphires. The pin is set with a sapphire. Between the gems punched crosses and lettrs in Lombardic script. Inscription on the reverse side says " io sui ici en liu dami amo" indicati...
Editorial??????????????, Birds and Flowers of the Twelve Months with Chinese Calligraphy, Muromachi period (1392?1573), 16th century; sheets of poetry, one dated 1553, Japan, Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color and gold leaf on paper, Image (each s...
Editorial??????????????, Birds and Flowers of the Twelve Months with Chinese Calligraphy, Muromachi period (1392?1573), 16th century; sheets of poetry, one dated 1553, Japan, Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color and gold leaf on paper, Image (each s...
EditorialTerracotta mold fragment, Hellenistic, ca. 300?100 B.C., Greek, South Italian, Terracotta, Overall: 5 5/8 x 3in. (14.3 x 7.6cm), Terracottas, The mold, covered with a variety of different symbols, has been seen as being used for stamping sacred cakes. ...
EditorialThe Corded Ware culture, alternatively characterized as the Battle Axe Culture or Single Grave culture. Nordic areas. (2900-2450/2350 BC). The National Museum of Finland. Helsinki.
EditorialLovers' brooch, set alternatively with cabochon rubies and sapphires. The pin is set with a sapphire. Between the gems punched crosses and lettrs in Lombardic script. Inscription on the reverse side says " io sui ici en liu dami amo" indicati...