EditorialBag (tobacco pouch), Medium: glass beads, silk Technique: knitted using crossed stockinette stitch; silk strung with glass beads; worked as a tube beginning at bottom Label: knitted silk with glass beads, Small bag finished at the top with a drawstring...
EditorialBaptistry or Church, Carved and turned bone veneer, gilt metal, wood, In the form of an Italian Renaissance octagonal chapel with domed roof above two stories of windows within pediments on columns., Cavarzere, Veneto, now Italy, 1782, models and proto...
EditorialSudbury Hall, Stained pine, Model in the form of Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire, an English country house of c. 1665-early 1690s, a rectangle with protruding central entrances and end wings, a central domed cupola and rectangular chimneys on the main block a...
EditorialBris? fan, Carved, pierced and painted ivory sticks, silk ribbon, Bris? fan with ivory sticks, carved with interlacing garlands, flowers, architectural features, and peacocks in medallions. In the center of obverse, an oval medallion is painted with a ...
EditorialRenaissance Church, Cut, carved and molded wood with carved, painted and gessoed decoration, in the form of a Renaissance chapel abutting a brick building behind it, the chapel's front portico of single story, with three arches raised on double columns...
EditorialArch with Beasts, French, ca. 115075, Made in Languedoc-Rousillon, France, French, Marble, 40 in. ? 74 in. ? 10 1/4 in. (101.6 ? 188 ? 26 cm), Sculpture-Architectural.
EditorialClock, Workshop of David Roentgen (German, Herrnhaag 1743?1807 Wiesbaden, master 1780), Movement attributed to Elie Prudhomme (German, born Switzerland, first mentioned 1776), ca. 1780?90, German, Neuwied am Rhein, Oak, pine, and mahogany, veneered wit...
EditorialCapital, ca. 1130?40, Made in present-day France, Catalan, Marble, Overall: 12 1/2 x 16 x 12 1/2 in. (31.8 x 40.6 x 31.8 cm), Sculpture-Architectural.
EditorialCapital with Nativity and Adoration, 12th century, Made in Prades (?), Spain, Spanish, Stone, Overall: 10 x 11 x 11 in. (25.4 x 27.9 x 27.9 cm), Sculpture-Architectural.
EditorialGarden Fountain, early 17th century, Attributed to India, Deccan, Brass; cast in sections, joined and engraved, H. 38 7/16 in. (97.7 cm), Metal, Some of the forms on this fountain, such as its hourglass shape and the lion mask (kirttimukha) on its spou...
EditorialFragment of a terracotta architectural tile, Archaic, 6th century B.C., Lydian, Terracotta, Overall: 4 3/4 x 9 5/16 in. (12.1 x 23.7 cm), Terracottas, Egg and dart pattern.
EditorialFragment of a terracotta architectural tile, Archaic, 6th century B.C., Lydian, Terracotta, Overall: 4 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. (12.4 x 6.4 cm), Terracottas, Hindquarters of a quadruped.
EditorialClock, Workshop of David Roentgen (German, Herrnhaag 1743?1807 Wiesbaden, master 1780), Movement attributed to Elie Prudhomme (German, born Switzerland, first mentioned 1776), ca. 1780?90, German, Neuwied am Rhein, Oak, pine, and mahogany, veneered wit...