EditorialSample of Australian Wood, Only one of the four samples of this inventory number has been found, No. 4, sandalwood. The other three samples were Australian mahogany or yarrah (eucalyptus marginata), shea oak (unidentified) and blue gum (eucalyptus spec...
EditorialMegillat Esther with case. The case is carved with scenes from the Esther story. Wood chain and two carved wooden lions are attached to the end of the parchment. France, 1892, formerly from the Rothschild family. Sandalwood, parchment, 64 x 7 cm.
EditorialSandalwood statue of Avalokiteshvara, Bodhisattva of Compassion (the equivalent of the Chinese Quinyan), in the Chapel of Lokeshvara, Red Palace of Potala. The statue may still date from roayal times and the earlier palace. See 05-01-02 / 63-70, 05-01-...
EditorialSumantra arrives in a chariot at Rāma's palace, finds him seated on a couch, now dressed in yellow dhotī and uttarīya rather than his earlier contemporary costume, and with Sītā waving a scarf over him. His brow is anointed with red sandalwood pas...
EditorialThe sandalwood merchant sits disguised among his adversaries listening to the advice of the old blind man. Sinbadnama, the Story of Sinbad, in an anonymous Persian version, with 72 miniatures. c.1575. Source: I.O. ISLAMIC 3214, f.114v. Language: Persian.
EditorialThe just man, like sandalwood, perfumes the blade that cuts him down, plate 46 from Miserere. Georges Rouault; French, 1871-1958. Date: 1945. Dimensions: 590 ? 420 mm (image/plate); 655 ? 505 mm (sheet). Etching on paper. Origin: France.
EditorialThe just man, like sandalwood, perfumes the blade that cuts him down, plate 46 from Miserere. Georges Rouault; French, 1871-1958. Date: 1945. Dimensions: 590 ? 420 mm (image/plate); 655 ? 505 mm (sheet). Etching on paper. Origin: France.
EditorialIndian sandalwood, Santalum album. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus' Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants), Jena, 1876.
EditorialRed sanders, red sandalwood and saunderswood, Pterocarpus santalinus. Endangered species. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus' Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical ...
EditorialThe sandalwood merchant sits disguised among his adversaries listening to the advice of the old blind man. Sinbadnama, the Story of Sinbad, in an anonymous Persian version, with 72 miniatures. c.1575. Source: I.O. ISLAMIC 3214, f.114v. Language: Persian.
EditorialBahram Gur with the Chinese Princess in the Sandalwood Pavilion. Nizami's Khamsa ('Five Poems'). Isfahan, Iran, 1665-1667. Source: Add. 6613, f.180. Language: Persian.
EditorialSumantra arrives in a chariot at Rāma's palace, finds him seated on a couch, now dressed in yellow dhotī and uttarīya rather than his earlier contemporary costume, and with Sītā waving a scarf over him. His brow is anointed with red sandalwood pas...
EditorialAsavari Ragini. 1780-1782. Asavari Ragini. A lady sits under a sandalwood tree on Malaya Hill, attracting serpents which coil about her and the tree. Tinted drawing. Originally published/produced in 1780-1782. . Source: J.42,30,.
EditorialThe sandalwood merchant sits disguised among his adversaries listening to the advice of the old blind man. Sinbadnama, the Story of Sinbad, in an anonymous Persian version, with 72 miniatures. c.1575. Source: I.O. ISLAMIC 3214, f.114v. Language: Persian.
EditorialBahram Gur with the Chinese Princess in the Sandalwood Pavilion. Nizami's Khamsa ('Five Poems'). Isfahan, Iran, 1665-1667. Source: Add. 6613, f.180. Language: Persian.
EditorialStanding Avalokiteshvara, 16th century, Nepal (Kathmandu Valley), Sandalwood, traces of polychrome and gold, H. 6 in. (15.2 cm), Sculpture, Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of this cosmic age, is shown with one hand lowered in the boon-giving gesture (...
EditorialStanding Avalokiteshvara, 16th century, Nepal (Kathmandu Valley), Sandalwood, traces of polychrome and gold, H. 6 in. (15.2 cm), Sculpture, Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of this cosmic age, is shown with one hand lowered in the boon-giving gesture (...
EditorialQin (Seven-stringed zither), Ming dynasty (1368?1644), late 16th century, China, Purple sandalwood (zitan) and black lacquer, H. 4 in. (10.2 cm); W. 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm); L. 50 1/8 in. (127.3 cm), Lacquer, Unidentified Artist.
EditorialIndian sandalwood, Santalum album. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus' Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical plants), Jena, 1876.
EditorialRed sanders, red sandalwood and saunderswood, Pterocarpus santalinus. Endangered species. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus' Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse, (Handbook of all medical-pharmaceutical ...
EditorialRed sanders wood, red sandalwood or chandam, Pterocarpus santalinus. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
EditorialIndian sandalwood, yellow sanders wood, chandan or chandal, Santalum album. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
EditorialIndian sandalwood, Santalum album. Vulnerable. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialRed sanders or red sandalwood, Pterocarpus santalinus. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialIndian sandalwood, Santalum album. Vulnerable. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Guimpel from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and professor of pharmaceutical botany ...
EditorialSandalwood, Santalum myrtifolium. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Guimpel from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berlin Uni...
EditorialDancers on Tahiti. The women wear a pomade of monoi in their hair: coconut oil scented with sandalwood or toromeo root. Woodcut engraving from Eugene Rimmel's The Book of Perfumes, London, Chapman and Hall, 1865.
EditorialBurmese woman in long loose striped silk petticoat, wearing slippers and carrying an umbrella. She wears painted fingernails and sandalwood perfume. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Asiatic Costumes," Ackermann, London, 1828.
EditorialRed sandalwood, Pterocarpus santalinus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Medical Botany," John Bohn, London, 1832. The tireless Sowerby (1757-1822...
EditorialIndian sandalwood, Santalum album. Vulnerable. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Medical Botany," John Bohn, London, 1832. The tireless Sowerby (17...
EditorialMegillat Esther with case. The case is carved with scenes from the Esther story. Wood chain and two carved wooden lions are attached to the end of the parchment. France, 1892, formerly from the Rothschild family. Sandalwood, parchment, 64 x 7 cm.