EditorialPhotograph - Double K Square Dance Club, Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd, Burnley, circa 1950, Black and white silver gelatin photograph of two couples dancing in a factory storeroom - one pair passing underneath the arms of the other. There is a handmade si...
EditorialHorse frontlet carved in relief with a female figure flanked by lions, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 9th?8th century B.C., Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Assyrian, Ivory, 6.38 x 2.6 in. (16.21 x 6.6 cm), Ivory/Bone-Equestrian, Over two hundred ivory and gyps...
EditorialPhotograph - Double K Square Dance Club, Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd, Burnley, circa 1950, Black and white silver gelatin photograph of men and women dancing in a factory storeroom, with a handmade sign reading 'Square Dance Club' attached to a pallet be...
EditorialHorse frontlet carved in relief with a female figure flanked by lions, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 9th?8th century B.C., Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Assyrian, Ivory, 6.38 x 2.6 in. (16.21 x 6.6 cm), Ivory/Bone-Equestrian, Over two hundred ivory and gyps...
EditorialHorse blinker carved in relief with a wedjat eye, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 8th century B.C., Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Assyrian, Ivory, 3.23 x 2.2 x 0.31 in. (8.2 x 5.59 x 0.79 cm), Ivory/Bone-Equestrian, This fragmentary, spade-shaped piece is car...
EditorialFurniture plaque carved in relief with a winged, falcon-headed sphinx, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 9th?8th century B.C., Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Assyrian, Ivory, 4.37 x 3.23 x 0.24 in. (11.1 x 8.2 x 0.61 cm), Ivory/Bone-Reliefs, This exquisitely car...
EditorialShell fragment, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 9th?8th century B.C., Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Assyrian, Shell, 1.85 x 1.97 x 0.12 in. (4.7 x 5 x 0.3 cm), Shell, Inscription in Luwian hieroglyphs: Urhilina, king, This object belongs to a group of at leas...
EditorialHead of a male or female figure, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 9th?8th century B.C., Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Assyrian, Ivory, Egyptian Blue, H. 3 7/16 x W. 3 9/16 x D. 2 1/8 in. (8.7 x 9 x 5.4 cm), Ivory/Bone-Sculpture, This piece is carved in the rou...
EditorialOpenwork plaque with a hybrid tree, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 9th?8th century B.C., Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Assyrian, Ivory, 3 7/8 x 2 1/8 x 3/4 in. (9.9 x 5.5 x 1.8 cm), Ivory/Bone-Reliefs, Two sets of four curving, voluted branches grow upwards ...
EditorialFurniture element carved in the round with the head of a roaring lion, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 9th?8th century B.C., Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Assyrian, Ivory, H. 3 3/4 x W. 3 x D. 2 3/4in. (9.5 x 7.6 x 6.9cm), Ivory/Bone-Sculpture, This fragmenta...