EditorialBeginning of the year 1760, Silver Medal. Front: Holland, depicted as a woman with a freedom hat on a spear and a staff of Mercury, sits in the Dutch garden among merchandise, next to her lion with a bundle of arrows and a bible on an altar within an i...
EditorialBeginning of the year 1760, Silver Medal. Front: Holland, depicted as a woman with a freedom hat on a spear and a staff of Mercury, sits in the Dutch garden among merchandise, next to her lion with a bundle of arrows and a bible on an altar within an i...
EditorialBeginning of the year 1760, Silver Medal. Front: Holland, depicted as a woman with an liberty hat wrapped in an orange branch in her hand, sits in the Dutch garden among merchandise, with her arm leaning on a burning altar, against which several books ...
EditorialGerminating Bed of Osiris, Late Period, Saite, Dynasty 26 or later, 664?332 B.C., From Egypt, Pottery, H. 24.3 ? W. 10.6 cm (9 9/16 ? 4 3/16 in.), Beginning in Dynasty 18, beds were made on which soil was molded into the shape of the god of regeneratio...
EditorialTwo Birds on a Wintry Tree, Song dynasty (960?1279), 13th century, China, Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on silk, 9 3/8 x 9 1/2 in. (23.8 x 24.1 cm), Paintings, Unidentified Artist, Formerly Attributed to Lidi (Chinese, ca. 1110? after 119...