EditorialAn image of the planet Earth captured on Sept. 21 by the LICIACube spacecraft, which will photograph the DART mission’s collision with the asteroid Dimorphos. (ASI/NASA via The New York Times)
EditorialBonhams Knightsbridge's Film, Rock and Pop sale on 17 November where the Yamaha G3 acoustic grand piano, used on records by Paul Weller, The Stone Roses, The Charlatans, Ash, The Manic Street Preachers and, most famously, Oasis's (What's The Story)
EditorialPersonification of Divine Wisdom Numismata virorum illustrium ex Barbadica gente (series title), A console with the female personification of Divine Wisdom. The woman is kneeling on a square stone. She is wearing a breast piece and a helmet with a roos...
EditorialOctagonal plate with a cock and two little chickens near a rock with flowering plants, Octagonal plate of porcelain, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, yellow, turquoise, purple, black and gold. On the flat a rooster and two small chickens...
EditorialHand guard, Oval tsuba with relief on the front and iroe takazogan an eagle plunging down, at the rear a small monkey is hiding in a rock, signed 'hiroyoshi'., Hiroyoshi, Japan, 1800 - 1850, Edo-period (1600-1868), copper (metal), gold (metal), silver ...
EditorialOctagonal plate with a cock and two little chickens near a rock with flowering plants, Octagonal plate of porcelain, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, yellow, turquoise, purple, black and gold. On the flat a rooster and two small chickens...
EditorialJug Can, Rock crystal jug with small rectangular ear, spout and on a low foot. Gold frame with black enamel and rubies. A lion's head is attached to the ear. At the spout a naked half-figure with mask., Foliage, tendrils, branches, ornament, anonymous,...
EditorialPlate of ivory, carved in the shape of a shell, Plate with a scalloped edge with a meander band, inside, in relief, a depiction of prunus, bamboo and (very small) pine at a rock., anonymous, China, 1800 - 1850, ivory, cutting, h 6.5 cm ? w 8.8 cm ? d 0...
EditorialLimestone statuette of a dove, Cypro-Classical, 4th century B.C., Cypriot, Limestone, Overall: 3 3/16 x 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. (8.1 x 8.3 x 8.3 cm), Stone Sculpture, The small dove is of a piece with the plinth, on which the claws of the feet are rendered. ...
EditorialFemale limestone head, Archaic, early 5th century B.C., Cypriot, Limestone, Overall: 2 1/4 ? 1 5/8 ? 1 7/8 in. (5.7 ? 4.1 ? 4.8 cm), Stone Sculpture, The face has a smiling expression, protruding eyes, and unarticulated ears, each decorated with a scal...