EditorialClaud Lovat Fraser, English, 1890 - 1921, Costume Design for Touchstone in As You Like It, Act I, ca. 1919, Watercolor, gouache, and pen and ink over graphite pencil, Sheet: 15 1/2 ? 10 inches (39.4 ? 25.4 cm).
EditorialPanel with inlaid representation of Pyramus and Thisbe, Panel of black marble, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, ivory and various types of marble. The leaf is encased in an ebony frame and chamfered at the top corners. In the foreground it shows the dead P...
EditorialTabletop Tabletop with inlaid representation of flowers and insects, Tabletop of black marble (touchstone), inlaid with mother-of-pearl in an ebony edge. The leaf is octagonal and displays a braided floral wreath around loosely arranged flowers arrange...
EditorialPanel with inlaid text: Mr Nicholas Verburch, Plate of black marble (?) Inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The magazine shows calligraphic curls and letters: 'Mr Nicolas Verburch a (nno) 1671. Amstelodami Dirck van Rijswijck invenit et fecit'. Plate in black...
EditorialCabinet Cabinet Cabinet Cabinet with very expensive plaques, Cabinet with stepped construction of coniferous, oak, maple and ebony and juniper. Glued with ivory and ebony, letter, olive and pansy wood, inlaid with lapis lazuli and pietre expensive plaq...
EditorialThe Crucifixion, Calvary, Nicolas II Palardin (attributed to workshop of), Luik, c. 1560, touchstone, marble (rock), h 70.0 cm ? w 54.5 cm ? d 7.5 cm.
EditorialKenau Simonsdr. Hasselaer (1526-1588), bust in relief of Kenau Simonsdr. Hasselaer, wife of Nanning Gerbrandsz. Chest. She is turned three-quarters to the left, placed against an oval flat background and dressed in a pseudo-Renaissance costume. She wea...
EditorialPortrait of a Man with Gloves, ca. 1535, Oil on wood, 8 3/8 x 6 1/2 in. (21.3 x 16.5 cm), Paintings, Corneille de Lyon (Netherlandish, The Hague, active by 1533?died 1575 Lyons), Because this portrait is closely related to Corneille?s only documented p...
EditorialTwo Stirrups, 16th?17th century, Mongolian or Tibetan, Iron, gold, silver, H. 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm); W. 5 11/16 in. (14.4 cm); Wt. 22 oz. (617 g), Equestrian Equipment-Stirrups, A detailed Mongolian inscription on the base of one of the stirrups, gives t...