EditorialPlaque: Christ Carrying the Cross, c. 1480-1500. Germany, Lower Rhine, late 15th Century. Ivory with traces of color and gold, mounted in silver frame; overall: 12.6 x 9 cm (4 15/16 x 3 9/16 in.).
EditorialBox with Grooming Implements (N?cessaire), c. 1770. Attributed to James Barbot (British). Gold-mounted agate, enamel interior fitted with implements;.
EditorialSnuff Box , c. 1810-20. Pierre-Andr? Montauban (French). Gold-mounted tortoiseshell, agate, enamel; overall: 9.5 x 7 x 1.9 cm (3 3/4 x 2 3/4 x 3/4 in.).
EditorialTwo ladies sit talking and taking refreshment on a terrace laid with a fine carpet of mid-seventeenth-century design. In the background is a lotus pool between green hillsides beneath a gold sunset sky with two ballooning clouds. Johnson Collection. c....
EditorialTwo ladies sit talking and taking refreshment on a terrace laid with a fine carpet of mid-seventeenth-century design. In the background is a lotus pool between green hillsides beneath a gold sunset sky with two ballooning clouds. Johnson Collection. c....
EditorialBahram Gur wrestling. Shahnama of Firdawsi, with 39 miniatures. Opaque w. 1614. Bahram Gur wrestling before Shangul King of Hind. All the Indians have dark skins: Bahram's vacated chair is of preponderantly European type: Shangul's attendant holds a hu...
EditorialToy Basket with Contents, Late Period, Dynasty 25?26, ca. 712?525 B.C., From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Temple of Mentuhotep II, Court, among intrusive burials, 1920?22, Palm fibre, reed, Diam. 6 ? H. 5.8 cm (2 3/8 ? 2 5/16 in.), Found ...
EditorialGold mounted amber jewelry including cigarette tube, cigarette cutter, cigarette case and pocket knife. Chromolithograph from Edwin Streeter's Gems Catalog, Bond Street, London, circa 1895.