EditorialOne of eighteen designs for a series of plates illustrating Venus and Adonis, Hablot Knight Browne, 18151882, British, undated, Graphite, brown chalk, watercolor and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper, Sheet: 6 5/8 ? 6 5/8 inc...
EditorialCup and saucer, Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735, Molded porcelain, overglaze enamel and gilding, Curved flaring cup, with twisted stem handle, ending in leaves. Slightly curved saucer. On cup, relief decoration of mythological scene...
EditorialOne of eighteen designs for a series of plates illustrating Venus and Adonis, Hablot Knight Browne, 18151882, British, undated, Graphite, brown chalk, watercolor and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper, Sheet: 6 5/8 ? 6 5/8 inc...
EditorialHelen presenting Telemachus, with the Veil, William Nutter, 17541802, British, after Samuel Shelley, 17501808, British, 1789, Stipple engraving, Sheet: 8 x 8in. (20.3 x 20.3cm), Greek mythology, religious and mythological subject, Telemachus and Pisist...
EditorialDish, Dish with bleu poudre and figures on a terrace, Porcelain dish with raised wall and bevel, decorated in underglaze blue and on the glaze blue, red, green, yellow, eggplant, black and gold. The front of the dish is covered with bleu poudr? (powder...
EditorialCup with a mythological scene, Large cup of soft-paste porcelain (p?te tendre) with a cylindrical wall and C-shaped ear, painted on the glaze in black and gold. On the outside wall an octagonal section with a mythological representation belonging to th...
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...
EditorialMirror, 12th?13th century, Attributed to Northwestern Iran or Turkey, Bronze; cast, chased, Diam. 8 11/16 in. (22 cm), Metal, Cast bronze mirrors were often used for divination or magical medicine. The polished metallic front provided a reflective surf...
EditorialDish, Dish with bleu poudre and figures on a terrace, Porcelain dish with raised wall and bevel, decorated in underglaze blue and on the glaze blue, red, green, yellow, eggplant, black and gold. The front of the dish is covered with bleu poudr? (powder...
EditorialDish with mythological animals in landscapes, Porcelain dish with ribbed wall and lobed edge, painted in underglaze blue and on the glaze blue, red, green, yellow, eggplant, black and gold. On the flat a double medallion with a flying feng huang above ...
EditorialSaucer-dish with (mythological) animals, landscape and flower sprays, Porcelain dish with round wall, painted in underglaze blue and on the glaze blue, red, green, yellow, eggplant, black and gold. On the shelf a medallion with two birds and flower spr...
EditorialCup with a mythological scene, Large cup of soft-paste porcelain (p?te tendre) with a cylindrical wall and C-shaped ear, painted on the glaze in black and gold. On the outside wall an octagonal section with a mythological representation belonging to th...
EditorialTerracotta pomegranate, Classical, 5th?4th century B.C., Greek, Terracotta, Diam.: 3 5/16 in. (8.4 cm), Terracottas, Throughout Greek art and the Greek world, the pomegranate has been associated with funerary beliefs and ritual. The mythological expres...
EditorialTerracotta aryballos (oil flask), Middle Corinthian, ca. 595?570 B.C., Greek, Corinthian, Terracotta; black-figure, H. 4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm), Vases, Herakles attacking a centaur, probably Nessos. The Otterloo Painter favored a type of aryballos with a fl...
EditorialMirror, 12th?13th century, Attributed to Northwestern Iran or Turkey, Bronze; cast, chased, Diam. 8 11/16 in. (22 cm), Metal, Cast bronze mirrors were often used for divination or magical medicine. The polished metallic front provided a reflective surf...
EditorialNeptune rising from the sea and bearing a staff, accompanied by two horse-headed sea creatures, reverse copy after a series of engravings by Cherubino Alberti of mythological scenes after Polidoro da Caravaggio.
EditorialTerracotta pomegranate, Classical, 5th?4th century B.C., Greek, Terracotta, Diam.: 3 5/16 in. (8.4 cm), Terracottas, Throughout Greek art and the Greek world, the pomegranate has been associated with funerary beliefs and ritual. The mythological expres...
EditorialMirror, 12th?13th century, Attributed to Northwestern Iran or Turkey, Bronze; cast, chased, Diam. 8 11/16 in. (22 cm), Metal, Cast bronze mirrors were often used for divination or magical medicine. The polished metallic front provided a reflective surf...
EditorialTerracotta aryballos (oil flask), Middle Corinthian, ca. 595?570 B.C., Greek, Corinthian, Terracotta; black-figure, H. 4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm), Vases, Herakles attacking a centaur, probably Nessos. The Otterloo Painter favored a type of aryballos with a fl...
EditorialDish with a Mythological Couple (Perhaps Apollo and Daphne), ca. 2nd century B.C., Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara), Schist, Diam. 3 15/16 in. (10 cm), Sculpture.