EditorialCovered jar and saucer with flowering plants and floral scrolls, Lid made of high porcelain pot, painted in underglaze blue and on the glaze blue, red, green, yellow, black and gold. On the wall of the pot, continuous on the lid, twice a flowering plan...
EditorialEwer and basin Lamp jug, painted with a water landscape, Lamp jug on a high base, of multi-colored faience. The ear is c-shaped. The jug is painted in the colors green, yellow and purple with on one side a mountain lake with a man with an angel and on ...
EditorialSaucer with two swimming ducks in a mountain landscape, Porcelain dish, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, yellow, black and gold. On the plateau two ducks swimming in a river with trees and mountains in the background, a rock in the foreg...
EditorialCovered jar and saucer with flowering plants and floral scrolls, High lid pot on porcelain saucer, painted in underglaze blue and on the glaze blue, red, green, yellow, black and gold. The pot has two S-shaped ears. On the wall of the pot, continuous o...
EditorialEwer and basin Basin, painted with a water landscape, Basin of multicolored faience. The oval basin has a scalloped edge and is painted in the colors yellow, green and purple. In the center of the basin is a circle within which a sailing boat has been ...
EditorialWindowpane with Christ and his followers carrying their cross, Windowpane of glass, painted in sepia and silver yellow with Christ carrying his cross, followed by a procession of women and men who also carry a cross. In the background a mountain landsc...
EditorialCrax urumutum, Print, Crax is a genus of curassows in the order Galliformes, a clade of large, heavy-bodied, ground-feeding birds. They are known from tropical South America with one species, the great curassow, ranging northwards through Central Ameri...
EditorialPloceus nelicourvi, Print, The nelicourvi weaver (Ploceus nelicourvi) is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Together with its closest relative, the sakalava weaver, it is sometimes placed in a separate genus Nelicur...
EditorialHanuman Brings the Mountain of Healing Plants; Rama Extracts the Arrow from Lakshmana as Hanuman and a Bear Prepare to Treat Him (recto); The Monkeys and Bears Fight Ravana and His Demons (verso), from a Lavanyavati, late 1700s. India, Orissa, late 18t...
EditorialHanuman Brings the Mountain of Healing Plants; Rama Extracts the Arrow from Lakshmana as Hanuman and a Bear Prepare to Treat Him (recto), from a Lavanyavati, late 1700s. India, Orissa, late 18th century. Charcoal and yellow pigment on palm-leaf; overal...
EditorialFull page botanical painting of Abronia arenaria (Yellow verbena) and Solidago or Virga-aurea (Goldenrod) in a mountain landscape with two men carrying poles and a walled city below. Coloured drawings of plants, copied from nature in the Roman States, ...
EditorialThe Madonna Enthroned with Eighteen Holy Women. Dated: c. 1480/1490. Dimensions: image: 32.8 x 24.8 cm (12 15/16 x 9 3/4 in.) sheet: 42.2 x 26 cm (16 5/8 x 10 1/4 in.). Medium: metalcut, hand-colored in green, yellow, and red.
EditorialMountain Valley with a Plateau, ca. 1625-30, Line etching, drypoint, and metal punch printed in blue-green, on a yellow-green ground, colored with brush; second state of two, sheet: 4 1/8 x 5 7/16 in. (10.5 x 13.8 cm), Prints, Hercules Segers (Dutch, c...
Editorial? ?? ????? ??, Sparse Trees and Pavilion, late Yuan dynasty (1271?1368), ca. 1361, China, Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on silk, Image: 9 7/8 x 11 1/8 in. (25.1 x 28.3 cm), Paintings, Wang Meng (Chinese, ca. 1308?1385), Wang Meng painted and inscri...
EditorialYellow-Green Hexagonal Glass Bottle with a Stylite Saint, mid-5th?7th century, Made in Syria (?), Byzantine, Moulded glass, Overall: 8 9/16 x 2 1/2 x 2 9/16 in. (21.7 x 6.4 x 6.5 cm), Glass-Vessels, The stylite saints depicted on tall glass vessels mad...
EditorialLongevity Mountain, Qing dynasty (1644?1911), Qianlong period (1736?95), China, Nephrite, bright golden-emerald flecked with yellow weathered spots, H. 4 1/16 in. (10.3 cm); W. 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm); D. 2 3/4 in. (7 cm), Jade.
EditorialYellow mountain saxifrage, Saxifraga aizoides. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816.
EditorialGreen-veined white, Pieris napi, small white, Pieris rapae, mountain clouded yellow, Colias phicomone, and dark-veined white, Pieris bryoniae. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel from Hippol...
EditorialFuneral Procession A Mountain Chieftain's Funeral The Burial of Alaric Signed in yellow paint, lower left: "F DANBY", Francis Danby, 1793-1861, British.
EditorialYellow mountain pansy, Viola lutea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smith's English Botany, 1800.