EditorialThimble from the wreck of the East India dealer Hollandia, Tools and instruments, sewing and sailmaking, thimble, fragm: circular rim with fragm of body, tapering, top missing, pitted surface, Annet, Dutch East India Company, Hollandia (ship), anonymou...
EditorialHundred Years' War. Conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453, pitted the Kingdom of England against the Valois Capetians for control of the French throne. Battle. Miniature. 15th century. Chateau of Chantilly. France.
EditorialCommon heath or Pitted epacris, Epacris impressa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Nevitt after a botanical illustration by Miss Sara Maund from Benjamin Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Henslow's The Botanist, London, 1836.
EditorialLanding Place, Ordnance Wharf, Balaklava, 1855, Salted paper print from glass negative, Image: 26 x 35.1 cm (10 1/4 x 13 13/16 in.), Photographs, Roger Fenton (British, 1819?1869), The Crimean War (1853-56) pitted European nations against an expansioni...
EditorialGlass monochrome dish fragment, Early Imperial, Julio-Claudian, 1st half of 1st century A.D., Roman, Glass; cast, Other: 11/16 x 1 3/8 in. (1.7 x 3.4 cm), Glass, Body fragment., Opaque red., Flat bottom with part of edge to side., Polished but pitted e...
EditorialTerracotta scyphus (drinking cup), Early Imperial, Julio-Claudian, ca. 15 B.C.?A.D. 60, Roman, Terracotta; Arretine ware, H. with handle 4 9/16 in. (11.6 cm); diameter 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm), Vases, This cup is stamped by M. Perennius Tigranus, who owned ...
EditorialIncense box, Edo period (1615?1868), 1830, Japan, Faience; the whole surface pitted and the decoration in low relief, colored enamels (Kyoto ware), H. 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm); Diam. 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm), Ceramics.
EditorialCommon heath or Pitted epacris, Epacris impressa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Nevitt after a botanical illustration by Miss Sara Maund from Benjamin Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Henslow's The Botanist, London, 1836.
EditorialHundred Years' War. Conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453, pitted the Kingdom of England against the Valois Capetians for control of the French throne. Battle. Miniature. 15th century. Chateau of Chantilly. France.