EditorialDish of lead-glaze earthenware, with deepened flat, Dish of lead-glaze earthenware. The shelf is deepened and decorated with three concentric circles in relief, surrounded by two series of dimpled circles. The wide rim has a series of studs intersperse...
EditorialPanning for gold in the refining trough, A long low trough, unilaterally opened, is shaken to and fro in the stream to wash gold from the stream, woodcut, p. 267, (Liber octavus), Manuel, Hans Rudolf (graveur sur bois), 1556, Georgius Agricola: De re m...
EditorialJug with silver lid with a coat of arms with helmet sign, Jug made of lead-glazed earthenware, with a silver hinged lid. The jug has a spherical body and a long slender neck. A silver profiled frame is attached to the base. The ear is c-shaped. A weapo...
EditorialA survey of the summe of church-discipline : wherein the way of the churches of New-England is warranted out of the Word, and all exceptions of weight, which are made against it, answered: Whereby also it will appear to the judicious reader, that somet...
EditorialA survey of the summe of church-discipline. Wherein the way of the churches of New-England is warranted out of the Word, and all exceptions of weight, which are made against it, answered: Whereby also it will appear to the judicious reader, that someth...
EditorialJug with lid of silver in which a weapon with helmet sign, Jug of lead glaze earthenware, with a silver hinged lid. The jug has a spherical body and a long slender neck. A silver profiled frame is attached to the base. The ear is c-shaped. A weapon wit...
EditorialTHE ERUPTION OF MOUNT ETNA, SICILY, 1883: 1. View of the Upper Regions of Etna, from the Scene of the Recent Outbreak. 2. Portrait of S. Antonio Abbate from the Woodcut Attached to a Bamboo Cross Placed Below the Line of Scori. 3. A Cottage in Nicolosi...
EditorialRattle Staff: Oba Akenzua I Standing on an Elephant (Ukhurhe), 1725?50, Nigeria, Edo, Bronze, copper, iron, H. 63 1/2 x W. 1 7/8 in. (161.3 x 4.8 cm), Metal-Implements, In the Benin kingdom of southern Nigeria, rattle staffs, or ukhurhe, are an essenti...
EditorialRitual Staff (Shakujo), Edo period (1615?1868), 19th century, Japan, Bronze; handle of lacquered wood with silk cord, L. 19 in. (48.3 cm), Metalwork, Based on the walking staff that was one of the eighteen possessions permitted a Buddhist monk, this im...
EditorialPellet Bell, late 18th century, United States, American, Bronze, Overall: H. 2 15/16 x Diam. 2 9/16 in. wt 220 g (7.5 x 6.5 cm), Idiophone-Shaken-crotal bell.
EditorialMenat of Taharqo: the King Being Nursed by the Lion-Headed Goddess Bastet, Late Period, Kushite, Dynasty 25, 690?664 B.C., Possibly from Nubia; From Egypt and Sudan, Faience, h. 9.5 cm (3 3/4 in); w. 4.4 cm (1 3/4 in); th. 0.8 cm (5/16 in), This menat,...
EditorialBell, Post Classic (Pre-Columbian), 10th?16th century, Mexico, Aztec, copper wire, Overall: 5.2 x 2.4cm (2 1/16 x 15/16in.), Idiophone-Shaken-crotal bell.
EditorialPottery Rattle, Pre-Columbian, 1200?1521, Central Plateau Region, Mexico, Mexican, Clay, Weight 79 g, Diamter 54 mm., Idiophone-Shaken-rattle, This pottery rattle is in the shape of a ball used in an Aztec game. Although numerous pottery instruments su...
EditorialRattle, ca. 1880, British Columbia, Canada, Native American (Haida or Tsimshian), Wood, string, pigment, Height: 11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm), Idiophone-Shaken-rattle, Rattles like this were most likely used during dance rituals of the Haida or Tsimshian. Sphe...
EditorialCuneiform cylinder: inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II describing the construction of the outer city wall of Babylon, Neo-Babylonian, ca. 604?562 B.C., Mesopotamia, Babylon (?), Babylonian, Clay, 48.62 x 2.75 x 2.87 in. (12.35 x 7 x 7.3 cm), Clay-Tablets...
EditorialRattle Staff: Oba Akenzua I Standing on an Elephant (Ukhurhe), 1725?50, Nigeria, Edo, Bronze, copper, iron, H. 63 1/2 x W. 1 7/8 in. (161.3 x 4.8 cm), Metal-Implements, In the Benin kingdom of southern Nigeria, rattle staffs, or ukhurhe, are an essenti...
EditorialPin with spherical head, Hittite Empire, ca. 14th?13th century B.C., Central Anatolia, Hittite, Gold, 5.12 in. (13 cm), Metalwork-Ornaments, The gold head of this pin is modeled after a poppy capsule. Its rosette top and fluted globe contain loose obje...
EditorialRitual Staff (Shakujo), Edo period (1615?1868), 19th century, Japan, Bronze; handle of lacquered wood with silk cord, L. 19 in. (48.3 cm), Metalwork, Based on the walking staff that was one of the eighteen possessions permitted a Buddhist monk, this im...
EditorialPellet Bell, late 18th century, United States, American, Bronze, Overall: H. 2 15/16 x Diam. 2 9/16 in. wt 220 g (7.5 x 6.5 cm), Idiophone-Shaken-crotal bell.
EditorialTHE ERUPTION OF MOUNT ETNA, SICILY, 1883: 1. View of the Upper Regions of Etna, from the Scene of the Recent Outbreak. 2. Portrait of S. Antonio Abbate from the Woodcut Attached to a Bamboo Cross Placed Below the Line of Scori. 3. A Cottage in Nicolosi...
EditorialCharles Dickens, from a recent daguerreotype by Mayall, 1 December, 1855. . Memoir of Charles Dickens. . The lives of men of genius when happy, are ordinarily uneventful. It may, perhaps, be one of the reaspms for the paucity of materials available for...
EditorialMourners in a funeral procession. Man on extreme left visibly shaken and crying. Detail from 08-01-10 / 30. Painted limestone (around 1320 BCE), 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom, Egypt. Inv. 12 411.