EditorialClodion, (artist), French, 1738 - 1814, Model for 'Poetry and Music', 1774, terracotta, overall: 27 x 23.3 x 15.6 cm (10 5/8 x 9 3/16 x 6 1/8 in.), Clodion specialized in small-scale terracotta figure groups, often with playfully erotic subjects loosel...
EditorialFreedom, Decorative plate with a 'Pro Patria' scene with lion and Dutch virgin. Under the virgin: 'FOR VHT' and 'ENG SERVICE'. Four lines of poetry evenly distributed on the edge: 'Freedom spanned A great bow ' 'to obtain freedom ' 'but in freedom live...
EditorialFreedom, Decorative plate with a 'Pro Patria' scene with lion and Dutch virgin. Under the virgin: 'FOR VHT' and 'ENG SERVICE'. Four lines of poetry evenly distributed on the edge: 'Freedom spanned A great bow ' 'to obtain freedom ' 'but in freedom live...
EditorialTeabowl with an orange red glaze, Stoneware tea bowl, covered with a crackled orange-red glaze. On the underside outside the foot ring inscriptions in red: ? ?? ?? ? ? 'koraku' 'old raku' and a given bowl name, ? ? ?? ? 'fuyugomori' 'wintering / winter...
EditorialTeyler's Second Society, medal awarded to Pieter Kikkert, Silver medal. Front: five women, illuminated by all-seeing eye in radiant triangle, representing from left to right: seated History with number of books, Poetry with lyre, Physics with globe and...