EditorialSampler, Medium: silk embroidery, linen foundation Technique: tent, cross and satin stitches on plain weave, Varying scenes: a house with animals; designs of plants, flowers, birds, a windmill, and animals. Verse on friendship. Bordered by carnations.,...
EditorialTile, Tin-enameled earthenware, underglaze manganese, overglaze white slip decoration, Square tile. Grayish white ground centered with manganese figures in the Chinese style, of a woman and boy holding parasol, both figures standing on a low mound. Bor...
EditorialVilla Borghese, Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735, Gilt and glazed porcelain, Circular plate of grayish porcelain with blue band between two gilt lines around rim; gilt-bordered circular medallion in center with polychrome ruins of Vi...
EditorialCream pitcher, Raised and stamped gilt silver, carved wood (handle), Footed gilt silver cream pitcher with wide and open spout. Below rim, bordered granulation. At neck, decorative band of leaf motif and granules. Foot with same band. Looped wood handl...
EditorialPlate, Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735, porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold, Circular plate of grayish porcelain with blue band between two gilt lines around rim; gilt-bordered circular medallion in center with polychrome landscape of ...
EditorialPurse, Medium: cotton, glass beads Technique: knitted with beads, Drawstring pouch with pictorial scene of a lake, mountains, and people in a park, bordered by grapes and leaves. Lined with tan cotton., England, 19th century, costume & accessories, Purse.
EditorialChasuble back, Medium: silk, gold thread Technique: stem and satin stitch embroidery; lined with plain weave, Chasuble back with embroidery in colored silks and metal thread on gold-colored buratto net in a design of curving stems with conventionalized...
EditorialTile, Earthenware, Tile decorated with brown and blue floral motif, bordered by two blue concentric circles; winged foliate in corners., Spain, 17th century, tiles, Decorative Arts, Tile.
EditorialSepolcro di Cecilia Metella, Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735, Gilt and glazed porcelain, Circular plate of grayish porcelain with blue band between two gilt lines around rim; gilt-bordered circular medallion in center with polychrom...
EditorialDesign for a Plate with Galatea on a Shell Flanked by Trumpeters in a Medallion Bordered by Sea Monsters, ca. 1600, Engraving, Sheet: 6 5/8 ? 6 9/16 in. (16.8 ? 16.6 cm), Adriaen Collaert (Netherlandish, Antwerp ca. 1560?1618 Antwerp), Design for a cir...
EditorialWooden box entirely glued with turtle, Wooden box entirely glued with turtle. The box stands on four silver feet in the shape of a transversely cut melon, has a profiled base and a simple main frame covering the walls, on which the recessed, high-curve...
EditorialPortraits of Ursula Ligsalz, Hans Sch?nermark, and Regina von Lamparter von Greiffenstein (?) Portrait medallion of a woman (Regina Lamparter von Greiffenstein?), The woman is placed three-quarters to the left, the head in profile to the left. She is w...
EditorialHandkerchief made of nettle cloth, bordered by a reticella insert and trimmed with bobbin lace, Handkerchief made of thin nettle cloth, surrounded by a reticella insert and deposited by a clotted side consisting of repetitive dot motifs. The reticella ...
EditorialSheet of white linen, Sheet made of white linen, bordered on four sides., anonymous, Amsterdam (possibly), c. 1750 - c. 1800, linen (material), l 9.5 cm ? w 8 cm.
EditorialWater bowl Dish, october, decorated with flowers and lobster ornament, Dish of silver. The dish has a corrugated outline and eight high swellings on which flowers are driven in relief, bordered and separated by dry and hardened lobe ornament. The sligh...
EditorialStained glass pane with the bust of a man in a praying position, with a purple dress bordered on the neck and hands with yellow fur, face and hands in light brown., anonymous, Southern Netherlands, 1400 - 1450, glass, silver stain, bister (pigment), d ...