EditorialFacebook, which has renamed itself Meta, and other social networks must make tricky judgment calls to balance supporting free expression while keeping out unwanted material like imagery of child sexual abuse, violent incitements and financial scams. (Irene Suosalo/The New York Times)
EditorialOrnaments, Medium: silk, metal, pearls Technique: split stitch embroidery on satin weave, Four separate ornaments, cruciform, with center circular medallions framing pictorial representations of Saints (apostles). Faces and hands in fine silk split sti...
EditorialRouletteman, Round table with baluster-shaped trunk that ends in a tripod. A twelve-pointed star is engraved on the table top with the numbers 1 to 12 around it. In the middle of the table is a cylindrical trunk on which a man balances on his foot. The...
EditorialWager cup, Drinkuit with mans figure with arrow arc balanced by a curved bar, Silver drinking spout. The cup-shaped cup is decorated with engraved flower and leaf garlands and inscriptions. The cup ends in a button on which a man's figure with bow and ...
EditorialTobacco vendor's guild from Aardenburg, guild token with no. 12, Brass medal. Front: pipe-smoking man with hat on head in jerkin and short wide pants supported with right hand on stack of tobacco rolls, on either side of man: letters T and G. Reverse: ...
EditorialBalance standard with a counterweight Counterweight of a balance, Counterweight, rectangular, with bevelled corners. The wall is decorated with an egg frame enriched with arrowheads, above which bandwork motifs and rosettes. The flat top has an engrave...
EditorialBlacksmith's Guild of Middelburg, medal number 73, Brass medal. Front: anvil surrounded by the letters I, B and K, surrounded by a chain, on which a lantern, gun lock, daggers, gun, scissors, balance and candlestick are hanging within a circle. Reverse...
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