EditorialHousecoat Sit's dressing gown, painted with multicolored prunus blossoms, pine branches with fan-shaped ends and a border with winding flower and leaf vines lined with yellow-white-red striped silk, Sitting's robe, pine branches with fan-shaped ends an...
EditorialIvory statue of a falconer, Japanese, Meiji period, late 19th century. The masterly carving here reproduces every fold of the falconer's costume, the straw of his gaiters and boots, the individual strands of the cord and the soft plumage of the bird. I...
EditorialDish with rocks, flowers, and birds, 1710?30, Japanese, for European market, Hard-paste porcelain with colored enamels under transparent glaze (Hizen ware; Imari type), Diameter: 7 5/8 in. (19.4 cm), Ceramics-Porcelain-Export, The dense Imari-style pat...
EditorialThe Spring (La Source), 1738, Oil on canvas, 31 3/4 x 25 5/8 in. (80.6 x 65.1 cm), Paintings, Jean Marc Nattier (French, Paris 1685?1766 Paris), Reportedly, the canvas was signed and dated 1738 on the reverse. The traditional identification of the sitt...
EditorialIvory statue of a falconer, Japanese, Meiji period, late 19th century. The masterly carving here reproduces every fold of the falconer's costume, the straw of his gaiters and boots, the individual strands of the cord and the soft plumage of the bird. I...