EditorialSlop bowl Sink bowl Sink bowl, multi-colored with chinoiseries and a trompe l'oeuil, Sink bowl of painted porcelain. Indian Blumen has been painted on the bottom of the interior. The wall is decorated with H?roldt chinoiseries within a four-pass with b...
EditorialCuneiform tablet: fragment of a promissory note, Neo-Babylonian or Achaemenid, ca. 7th?4th century B.C., Mesopotamia, Babylonian or Achaemenid, Clay, 1.2 x 3.3 x 1.5 cm (1/2 x 1 1/4 x 5/8 in.), Clay-Tablets-Inscribed.
EditorialCuneiform tablet: promissory note for silver, Esagilaya archive, Neo-Babylonian or Achaemenid, ca. 6th century B.C., Mesopotamia, probably from Babylon (modern Hillah), Babylonian or Achaemenid, Clay, 3.3 x 3.9 x 1.9 cm (1 1/4 x 1 1/2 x 3/4 in.), Clay-...
EditorialCuneiform tablet: fragment of a promissory note for dates, Neo-Babylonian, ca. 626?539 B.C., Mesopotamia, Babylonian, Clay, 3.2 x 2.7 x 1.4 cm (1 1/4 x 1 1/8 x 1/2 in.), Clay-Tablets-Inscribed.
EditorialCuneiform tablet: promissory note for silver, Esagilaya archive, Achaemenid, ca. 530?522 B.C., Mesopotamia, Achaemenid, Clay, 3.4 x 5.3 x 1.7 cm (1 3/8 x 2 1/8 x 5/8 in.), Clay-Tablets-Inscribed.
EditorialThe Anisson-Duperon printing press which printed the First French Republic's first promissory notes. Benjamin Franklin's son bought the press for 8 Guineas.