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Editorial Memorabilia from Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn to Chris Hemsworth, Samuel L. Jackson and Star Wars to go under hammer at huge Hollywood auction
Editorial Monju Bosatsu with Eight Sacred Sanskrit Syllables.
Editorial Portable altar in slightly gilded silver and wooden core. Detail of the lower part, medallion with the mystic lamb on cruciform nimbus. Donation of the Emperor Henry II to the Cathedral of Basel, Switzerland. 11th century. Cluny Museum, Paris, France.
Editorial Orbiculus, Orbiculus with a figure in half on a red ground in blue with nimbus in yellow and green. The whole surrounded by a yellow and black line., anonymous, Egypte, c. 400 - c. 699, ketting en inslag, inslag, tapestry, h 6.0 cm ? w 7.2 cm.
Editorial Shiva, Parvati, and Ganesha Parvati, Parvati (standing). with vadamudra and lotus stem, provided with a nimbus, representations, goddesses, demi-goddesses, heroines etc. (Hinduism, Buddhism or Jainism), anonymous, Java, 850 - 930, silver (metal), h 11....
Editorial Oath of faith taken by the Principality of Orange to Prince William III, 1665 Difference in the sky over the Principality of Orangie in the Year 1688 (title on object), Oath of faith taken by the cities and residents of the principality of Orange to Pr...
Editorial Were two huge nimbus, Nimbostratus and Hot Air Balloon by James Glaisher 1863, Fig. 18, p. 92, 1870, James Glaisher; Camille Flammarion; Wilfrid de Fonvielle; Gaston Tissandier: Voyages a?riens. Paris: Hachette, 1870.
Editorial Tissue fragment in tapestry, Natural-colored linen tissue fragment with tapestry fabric sewn in rough stitch. Against a discolored red ground a side view of a green throne with a yellow lion on the backrest. On top a figure with a nimbus and a robe in ...
Editorial Relief with St John, Johannes stands frontally on a cobblestone bottom. In his left hand he holds a spell band that rolls out to the feet, which he points to with the right hand. The parted hair falls over the shoulders, a hollow nimbus is hidden behin...
Editorial Masterpiece in the form of a demon, Bronze statue of a figure, shown in demonic form with convex eyes, cheeks, horns on the head and shoulders. An attribute in both hands (possibly a knife in the right hand). A nimbus around the head ends in a loop. Th...
Editorial Fragment of a tunic with two clavi, Natural-colored linen fragment of a tunic with two sewn-on clavi. The clavi are divided into sections. On the left clavus we see a saint with a nimbus with a robe in light blue, dark blue, light green, dark green, ye...
Editorial Virgin and Child, Fragment, On a ground, transforming into a hexagonal profiled pedestal with arcades and niches, Maria stands on a crescent moon, the left knee bent. She carries on the right arm the half-lying Christ child, dressed in a shirt, of whic...
Editorial Tympanum from the Abbey Church of Egmond Tympanum from the abbey church of Egmond Tympanum or Egmond Abbey, While maintaining a flat, arched frame and a plinth, half have been saved: in the middle Peter with nimbus, holding a curve bar in the left hand...
Editorial Fragment of a sleeve, Natural-colored fragment of a sleeve with two sewn-on decorative borders. The upper with a decoration on a red ground of two horses turned towards each other with archers looking backwards, with a medallion with a head with nimbus...
Editorial Nandishvara, Nadishvara, guard of Shiva. Nadishvara has a nimbus and some attributes of Shiva: a trident with a small clock. In the right hand a beaded chain, while the left hand holds the stem of a lotus flower, Shiva, god of fertility or nature - off...
Editorial Maria with child, knee-joint, Maria stands three-quarters to the right with her head in profile behind a balustrade, for which there is a cloth. She carries the lying naked child on both hands. She wears a diadem and a veil over the head and around the...
Editorial Tile panel with the personifications of the Beautiful, the True and the Good, Tile panel with the three graces: underneath a gate that is covered with a three-pass motif we see on either side of the naked Truth with its classical hairdress and the sun ...
Editorial Christ on the cross, with Mary, John, Mary Magdalene and St. Francis, Against a flat, framed background stands the cross, on which Christ hangs with his head tilted to the left. Above him the inscription INRI in gothic letters, Adam's skull against the...
Editorial Fabric fragment with clavus, Natural-colored linen fabric fragment with sewn-on clavus ending in an oval. In the oval a human figure in a yellow robe with nimbus on a red ground, in the clavus a figure with light blue and white robe and green nimbus wi...
Editorial Relief with St James, Jacobus is head-to-front with his head. He holds an open book with the band against him with both hands. The spine is shown in a (distorted) perspective on the top and bottom of the book. The apostle wears beard and mustache, his ...
Editorial Man in loincloth, a box and a mouse, Unclear representation of a kneeling man in loincloth, sliding a box with his foot, a mouse running away., Air (one of the four elements), sea (seascape), nimbus, ie rain clouds, Katsushika Hokusai, Japan, c. 1700 -...
Editorial Floating angel, The angel holds an indefinable object in front of her (a fragment of). He has raised the left leg with the knee forward and the other with his foot swinging backwards. The upper part of the other wing is visible behind the nimbus. The a...
Editorial Reichsadler Humps, inserted bottom, smooth, set-up ring. On the cylindrical, slightly tapered body in black the double-headed Reindeer with crown and nimbus. In front of the breast the Kingdom apple, on the wings the arms of the Electors and the Quater...
Editorial Plaque with the head of Christ, On the plaque cast as a whole, the head of Christ is depicted in relief, surrounded by a nimbus, in which a cross is inserted. Below that is the banderole with the inscription INRI., anonymous, West-Europa, c. 1800 - c. ...
Editorial Floating angel, The angel holds in front of her (a fragment of) an indefinable object. He has raised the right leg with the knee forward and the other with his foot swinging backwards. The upper part of the other wing is visible behind the nimbus. The ...
Editorial Relief with the Nativity Relief with the birth of Christ, The stable is indicated by a double, shell-shaped vault, supported on both sides by two Romanesque columns with leaf capitals, which simultaneously bear a narrow tower of two floors with windows...
Editorial Panel with the god Zeus/Serapis/Ohrmazd and worshiper, Kushan, ca. 3rd century A.D., Bactria, Kushan, Terracotta, gouache, H. 56.8 cm, W. 52.3 cm, D. 5.4 cm, Ceramics-Paintings, This rare Central Asian votive panel depicts a deity (with nimbus) being a...
Editorial Panel fragment with the god Shiva/Oesho, Kushan, ca. 3rd century A.D., Bactria, Kushan, Terracotta, gouache, H. 57.2 cm, W. 41.6 cm, D. 5.7 cm, Ceramics-Paintings, This rare Central Asian votive panel depicts a deity (with nimbus) being approached by a...
Editorial Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion, Thakuri period, 10th century, Nepal (Kathmandu Valley), Copper alloy, H. 13 1/4 in. (33.6 cm); W. 14 in. (10.1 cm); D. 3 1/2 in. (9 cm), Sculpture, This elegant bodhisattva, with its gently flexe...
Editorial Reichsadler Humps, Lightly inserted bottom. Smooth, applied stand ring. On the cylindrical body, slightly tapered at the top, the black, double-headed Reindeer with yellow crown and nimbus. For the chest a crucifix with wide-spread loincloth. On the wi...
Editorial Medallion with Christ's head, Box of gilt silver, in the form of a medallion with a ring on which it can be hung, presumably a reliquary. The front and back are decorated with a gilt, cast Christ's head in nimbus with lily cross, around which flower bu...
Editorial Fragment of a tunic, Fragment of a tunic with sewn-on decorations consisting of two tabulae, two clavi and two broad bands sewn together. The sewn-on parts have different decorations. Tabulae: dark blue ground with red two horsemen with nimbus and rais...
Editorial Labrador. Venison Island. Harbor with Nimbus., H.N. Robinson (American, active 1870s), 1880s, Albumen silver print.
Editorial Labrador. Square Island. Divine Services on Deck of Nimbus, August 6th., H.N. Robinson (American, active 1870s), 1880s, Albumen silver print.
Editorial Labrador. Square Island. Iceberg and Nimbus., H.N. Robinson (American, active 1870s), 1880s, Albumen silver print.
Editorial On Deck of Nimbus. Where shall we promenade?, H.N. Robinson (American, active 1870s), 1880s, Albumen silver print.
Editorial On Deck of Nimbus. The last Digby., H.N. Robinson (American, active 1870s), 1880s, Albumen silver print.
Editorial Monju Bosatsu with Eight Sacred Sanskrit Syllables.
Editorial Upper body of a hl., Widow, c. 1410, mixed media on fir wood, 38 x 29.5 cm, unsigned., Hallmarked in the nimbus, left: santt, right: vidua, S?ddeutscher Meister, 15. Jh.
Editorial VISHNU.
Editorial Saint Henry (Emperor Henry II).
Editorial Head of an Apostle Surrounded by a Tongue of Fire and a Nimbus: Fragment of a Cartoon for a Descent of the Holy Spirit.
Editorial Miniature in two parts, with four apostles, without emblems on register above, and Peter (with keys), Paul (with sword), Andrew (with diagonal cross) and John (with palm-branch and eagle) on register below. A bas-de-page scene of Paul, with nimbus, pre...
Editorial Psalm 44; The Annunciation. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. Whole folio. End of Psalm 43. Psalm 44 beginning with initial 'E'; the Virgin and child enthroned, with a bird. Border decoration including a grotesque with the upper...
Editorial Portable altar in slightly gilded silver and wooden core. Detail of the lower part, medallion with the mystic lamb on cruciform nimbus. Donation of the Emperor Henry II to the Cathedral of Basel, Switzerland. 11th century. Cluny Museum, Paris, France.
Editorial Terracotta oil lamp.
Editorial Natural history of clouds: cirrus, cirrostratus, cirrocumulus, nimbus, etc. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1823.
Editorial Head of an Apostle Surrounded by a Tongue of Fire and a Nimbus: Fragment of a Cartoon for a Descent of the Holy Spirit.
Editorial A distant shower coming from behind an elevated point of land, in which are represented the superior sheet stretching in different parts to windward, and cumuli advancing towrds and entering the mass, the whole of which constitutes the nimbus. . On the...
Editorial Miniature in two parts, with four apostles, without emblems on register above, and Peter (with keys), Paul (with sword), Andrew (with diagonal cross) and John (with palm-branch and eagle) on register below. A bas-de-page scene of Paul, with nimbus, pre...
Editorial Psalm 49. the Entombment. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] Psalm 49. Border decoration. In the lower margin, Christ's body, with nimbus intact, is wrapped in a shroud with a St George cross on its chest. He is pla...
Editorial Psalm 44; The Annunciation. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. Whole folio. End of Psalm 43. Psalm 44 beginning with initial 'E'; the Virgin and child enthroned, with a bird. Border decoration including a grotesque with the upper...
Editorial Seal of the Bishop of Lincoln. England; 1496. [Seal only] Impression of the seal of William Smith, Bishop of Lincoln.The Virgin crowned, seated in a canopied niche, with a long sceptre in the right hand, and supporting the Child in the other. The Child...
Editorial Psalm 51; Virgin on her deathbed. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] Psalm 51. Border decoration with two grotesques, including one in the outer margin with winged headgear. In the lower margin, the Virgin on her de...
Editorial Chapter 7. St John. Silos Apocalypse. Spain [Silos]; 1109. [Whole folio] Book of Revelation, chapter 7. Initial 'E', a small beardless, human head with a blue cap with two yellow foliate motifs, and a palm leaf emerging from its mouth. Below, the figur...
Editorial Figural poem with foliate border dedicating Hrabanus's work to Emperor Louis the Pious, shown with nimbus, shield, and cross. De laudibus sanctae crucis. Germany, W. (Arnstein); c. 1170-1180. Source: Harley 3045, f.2v. Language: Latin.
Editorial Chapter 14. St John. Silos Apocalypse. Spain [Silos]; 1109. [Whole folio] Book of Revelation, chapter 14. In the lower margin, a standing figure of St John pointing to the event illustrated on the following folio. He wears a cloak over a short tunic, s...
Editorial David playing a medieval fiddle. Mirandola Hours. Italy, circa 1490-1499. [Whole folio] Penitential Psalms. David playing a medieval fiddle. At top, the imperial arms. Below, a child with a nimbus plays a portative organ, the bellows of which are suppo...
Editorial A distant shower coming from behind an elevated point of land, in which are represented the superior sheet stretching in different parts to windward, and cumuli advancing towrds and entering the mass, the whole of which constitutes the nimbus. . On the...
Editorial Raising of Lazarus. Hours of Jacob de Brégilles. S. Netherlands [Bruges]; circa 1460. [Miniature and text] Office for the Dead at Vespers. Lazarus, nude and beardless, is rising out of an earth grave with stone lid, near a building. Behind Christ is J...
Editorial Portable altar in slightly gilded silver and wooden core. Detail of the lower part, medallion with the mystic lamb on cruciform nimbus. Donation of the Emperor Henry II to the Cathedral of Basel, Switzerland. 11th century. Cluny Museum, Paris, France.
Editorial Terracotta oil lamp.
Editorial Plate with king hunting rams.
Editorial Monju Bosatsu with Eight Sacred Sanskrit Syllables.
Editorial VISHNU.
Editorial Saint Henry (Emperor Henry II).
Editorial Manjuvajra Mandala.
Editorial Head of an Apostle Surrounded by a Tongue of Fire and a Nimbus: Fragment of a Cartoon for a Descent of the Holy Spirit.
Editorial Panel with the god Zeus/Serapis/Ohrmazd and worshiper, Kushan, ca. 3rd century A.D., Bactria, Kushan, Terracotta, gouache, H. 56.8 cm, W. 52.3 cm, D. 5.4 cm, Ceramics-Paintings, This rare Central Asian votive panel depicts a deity (with nimbus) being a...
Editorial Panel fragment with the god Shiva/Oesho, Kushan, ca. 3rd century A.D., Bactria, Kushan, Terracotta, gouache, H. 57.2 cm, W. 41.6 cm, D. 5.7 cm, Ceramics-Paintings, This rare Central Asian votive panel depicts a deity (with nimbus) being approached by a...
Editorial Design for a Cartouche with a Lion's Head and Nimbus, 1732?1802, Pen and brown ink, brush and green wash with framing lines in gray-green ink, 7 x 8- 7/16 in. (17.8 x 21.4 cm), Carlo Bianconi (Italian, Bologna 1732?1802 Milan).
Editorial Meditating Buddha with Alms Bowl Enthroned in a Foliated Niche, Pala period, ca. late 10th?early 11th century, India (Bihar), Stone, H. 16 15/16 in. (43 cm), Sculpture, This meditating Buddha with an alms bowl is likely the Amitabha Buddha in the form ...
Editorial Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion, Thakuri period, 10th century, Nepal (Kathmandu Valley), Copper alloy, H. 13 1/4 in. (33.6 cm); W. 14 in. (10.1 cm); D. 3 1/2 in. (9 cm), Sculpture, This elegant bodhisattva, with its gently flexe...
Editorial Natural history of clouds: cirrus, cirrostratus, cirrocumulus, nimbus, etc. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1823.
Editorial Portable altar in slightly gilded silver and wooden core. Detail of the lower part, medallion with the mystic lamb on cruciform nimbus. Donation of the Emperor Henry II to the Cathedral of Basel, Switzerland. 11th century. Cluny Museum, Paris, France.
Editorial The purple Codex Rossanensis, a 6th century manuscript on puple parchment, contains the gospel of Matthew and almost the entire gospel of Mark.30 x 25 cm.Inscriptions and 40 verses are from Psalms and Prophets.Folio 9: Title page to the canon-tables, l...
Editorial Red sandstone figure of a tirthankara, India, 3rd CE. In Indian Jainism, 24 tirthankaras, Jinas or "ford-makers" make passages for their followers to cross from suffering and pain to happiness. This figure has the srivatsa mark on his chest and a nim...