EditorialHow the Heart Will Be Perfected by God from Der beschlossen gart des rosenkratz marie, plate twenty from Woodcuts from Books of the XVI Century. Hans Leonhard Sch?uffelein (German, 1480/90-1538/40); assembled by Max Geisberg (Swiss, 1875-1943). Date: 1...
EditorialHow the Heart Will Be Perfected by God from Der beschlossen gart des rosenkratz marie, plate twenty from Woodcuts from Books of the XVI Century. Hans Leonhard Sch?uffelein (German, 1480/90-1538/40); assembled by Max Geisberg (Swiss, 1875-1943). Date: 1...
EditorialPhacops, Print, Phacops is a genus of trilobites in the order Phacopida, family Phacopidae, that lived in Europe, northwestern Africa, North and South America and China from the Late Ordovician until the very end of the Devonian, with a broader time ra...
EditorialHow the Heart Will Be Perfected by God from Der beschlossen gart des rosenkratz marie, plate twenty from Woodcuts from Books of the XVI Century. Hans Leonhard Sch?uffelein (German, 1480/90-1538/40); assembled by Max Geisberg (Swiss, 1875-1943). Date: 1...
EditorialHow the Heart Will Be Perfected by God from Der beschlossen gart des rosenkratz marie, plate twenty from Woodcuts from Books of the XVI Century. Hans Leonhard Sch?uffelein (German, 1480/90-1538/40); assembled by Max Geisberg (Swiss, 1875-1943). Date: 1...
EditorialCloisonn? jar, Ming dynasty, Xuande period, c1426-c1435. Depicting a dragon among clouds. The inscription on the neck of the jar shows that it was made under the auspices of the Yuyongjian, a division of the Imperial Household. The Chinese perfected th...
EditorialTwo vinegar-and-oil sets, left Chinese K'ang-hsi, right Meissen. In a few years, Meissen perfected the blue under-glaze painting, the cobalt no longer ran under the glaze as it did in earlier pieces. Height left 20.1 cm, right 19 cm (1725-1730).
EditorialA map of England and part of Scotland. Descriptio viarum Angli? per postam: Londino Edenburgum in Scotiam ... manifestata & edita per R. Carr Description de touts le chemins de poste qui sont en Engletere, de Londres jusques a? Edenburg en la Ecoce ....
EditorialGod's Wife Tagerem, Ptolemaic Period, Ptolemaic Dynasty, 300?250 B.C., From Egypt, Western Delta, Sakhebu, Limestone, H. 42 cm (16 1/2 in), The priestess Tagerem was God's Wife of the god Re in Sakhebu in the southwestern Delta, a temple functionary of...
EditorialFolio from a Qur'an Manuscript, ca. 1180, Attributed to Eastern Iran or present-day Afghanistan, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, H. 11 3/4 in. (29.8 cm), Codices, This folio from a dispersed Qur'an exemplifies the transition during the Selju...
EditorialBowl with a Horseman, late 12th?early 13th century, with early 20th century additions, Attributed to Iran, Stonepaste; overglaze painted, and gilded, so-called 'mina'i' ware, 3 11/16 x 8 1/2in. (9.4 x 21.6cm), Ceramics, On enameled ware, overpainting c...
EditorialBuddhist Attendant, Possibly a Dakini, late 18th century, Eastern Tibet, Color on paper, Image: 50 1/4 x 33 1/4 in. (127.6 x 84.5 cm), Paintings, This dancing goddess, perhaps intended to represent a perfected female being (dakini), honors the Buddhist...
EditorialPerfected portrait of Ivan Kljun,painter,pupil of Malevich,member of the group "Supremus"(1873-1942). Around 1913. Canvas,112 x 70 cm SchB-1469.
EditorialTwo vinegar-and-oil sets, left Chinese K'ang-hsi, right Meissen. In a few years, Meissen perfected the blue under-glaze painting, the cobalt no longer ran under the glaze as it did in earlier pieces. Height left 20.1 cm, right 19 cm (1725-1730).
EditorialCloisonn? jar, Ming dynasty, Xuande period, c1426-c1435. Depicting a dragon among clouds. The inscription on the neck of the jar shows that it was made under the auspices of the Yuyongjian, a division of the Imperial Household. The Chinese perfected th...