EditorialBlue leather jeweled box for snuff box of gold, blue leather covered jewelery box. On the lid a golden weapon with below it HMK, garden fountain, colonnade, fantasy ornament, ornament, cartouche, 1739 - 1959, leather, velvet (fabric weave), h 5.0 cm ? ...
EditorialCourt lady at riverside The Ide river in Yamashiro, number one Yamashiro - sono ichi (title on object) The six jeweled rivers (series title) Mutamagawa no uchi (series title on object), A woman in Court dress, with a fan in her hand and very long hair,...
EditorialSaber with Scabbard and Carrying Belt, early 17th century, Polish, Steel, gold, silver, leather, wood, textile, semiprecious stones, L. 37 1/2 in. (95.2 cm); L. of blade 31 1/2 in. (80 cm); Wt. 2 lb. 1 oz. (936 g); Wt. of scabbard 2 lb. 3 oz. (992.2 g)...
Editorial?? ?????????(??), Bodhisattva, probably Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin), Northern Qi dynasty (550?577), ca. 550?560, China, Sandstone with pigment, H. 13 ft. 9 in. (419.1 cm); H. with base 14 ft. 9 in. (449.6 cm), Sculpture, Large-scale sculptures of bodhisa...
EditorialSeven Jeweled Mountain, late 1800s. Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392-1910). Ten-panel screen; ink and color on silk; overall: 185.2 x 42.9 cm (72 15/16 x 16 7/8 in.); each screen: 158.2 x 42.9 cm (62 5/16 x 16 7/8 in.).
EditorialMany-Jeweled Stupa Reliquary (Tahoto shari yoki), early to mid 1300s. Japan, Kamakura period (1185-1333). Wood and metal; average: 68 x 34.4 cm (26 3/4 x 13 9/16 in.).
EditorialJeweled Ritual Crown, from a Set of Initiation Cards (Tsakali). Tibet. Date: 1299-1499. Dimensions: 16 x 14.5 cm (6 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.). Ink and watercolor on paper. Origin: Tibet.
EditorialElisabeth of Valois, wife of King Philip II of Spain, daughter of King Henry II of France, 1545-1568. She wears a jeweled cap, lace ruff collar, and rich, embroidered surtout with slashed sleeves and bodice. After a miniature on vellum in the editor's ...
EditorialCatherine de Medici, Queen of France, wife of King Henry II, 1519-1589. She wears a jeweled cap, lace ruff collar, surtout with high shoulder pads and lace sleeves open to the breast to show an embroidered corset and petticoat. After a miniature in the...
EditorialAnne of Pisseleu, Duchess of Etampes, mistress of King Francis I, 1508-1580. She wears a chaperon headdress, velvet surtout with lace ruff collar, jeweled choker, slashed sleeves with high shoulderpads, damask petticoat, and chain belt. After a miniatu...
EditorialMary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England, queen to King Louis XII of France, 1496-1533. She wears a gable hood, a blue velvet surtout trimmed with gold embroidery, fur sleeves called rebras, a jeweled belt, and Venetian flat shoes called pianelles....
EditorialMarie of Anjou, Queen of France, wife of King Charles VII. She wears a truncated hennin, jeweled necklace, and black velvet robe lined with ermine, crakows or poulaines. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georges Jacques Gatine after an illustration...
EditorialMarguerite of Lorraine, sister of Queen consort Louise of France, sister-in-law to Henry III of France, wife of Anne Duke of Joyeuse, 1581. She wears a three-pronged cap, lace ruff, dress with jeweled corset, embroidered slashed sleeves and skirts with...
EditorialA Black Man in Three-quarter Profile, 1522, Engraving, Sheet: 4 1/16 x 2 13/16 in. (10.3 x 7.1 cm), Prints, Frans Crabbe van Espleghem (Netherlandish, Mechelen ca. 1480?1553 Mechelen), This riveting engraving of an African is one of the rare depictions...
EditorialA print of William Rogers's celebrated full-length portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, standing in a room with a latticed window. The Queen is holding her orb and sceptre, and wears an elaborate, jeweled farthingale gown; ropes of pearls and a pearl corone...
Editorial"L'Oiseau de Feu". The Firebird is a 1910 ballet created by the composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Michel Fokine. The ballet is based on Russian folk tales. A heavily jeweled dancer is shown. Designs on the Dances of Vaslav Nijinsky ... Forewor...
EditorialGerman women's jewelry from 1546. The skin of a pine marten lined with satin and wearing a jeweled harness and a gold chain to attach to a woman's girdle. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's "Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages t...