EditorialOpen-Necked Vessel in the Form of a Human Head, Possibly Deceased. Jalisco, Ameca style; Ameca Valley, Jalisco, Mexico. Date: 100 AD-300 AD. Dimensions: 21.6 x 21.6 cm (8 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.). Ceramic and pigment. Origin: Jalisco state.
EditorialLong-necked sea-lizard Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus, with prehistoric cuttlefish and flying pterodactyls. After an illustration by J. Smit from H. N. Hutchinson's "Extinct Monsters and Creatures of Other Days," Chapman and Hall, London, 1896.
EditorialThe Fashions of the Day ? or Time Past and Time Present: The Year (1740) a Lady's Full Dress of Bombazeen ? The Year (1808) Lady's Undress of Bum-be-seen, ca. 1808, Hand-colored etching, Plate: 8 11/16 x 12 15/16 in. (22 x 32.8 cm), Prints, Anonymous, ...
EditorialDesign for a Vessel (Sauceboat?), Pen and brown ink, brush and brown, gray wash, black chalk on cream laid paper, lined, Boat-shaped vessel supported by baluster pedestal on either side of which two nudes sit with arms raised appearing to support the v...
EditorialSmiling Female, Silver, Oblong, rounded corners, sides bulge slightly, pinched at point where lid meets box body, small dip at lid's top and bottom edges, as well as at bottom of box, continuous groove around box sides. Front features raised image of l...
EditorialBedcover, Medium: cotton Technique: painted and dyed, Bedcover showing a central field with trees and a wide border with flowering vine. A tree with exposed roots rises from the point of a triangular mound, and branches about half way up appeared to be...
EditorialWool Pile?Cap, A.D.?700900, Wool and cotton, square-knotted network with wool pile, 8.3 ? 50.9 cm (3 1/4 ? 20 1/16 in.), Close-fitting, four-cornered caps such as this one were worn by Huari and Tiahuanaco elite males in life and were?interred with the...
EditorialHigh-necked kidney jaw and small damage to the neck, bending pot, earthenware (rough walled), h: 13.1 cm, diam: 12.5 cm (with ear), vmeb 450-600, Germany.
EditorialEared Grebe, Black-necked Grebe (Podiceps nigricollis, Podiceps auritus), Signed: J.J. Audubon, J.T. Bowen, lithograph, Pl. 482 (vol. 7), Audubon, John James (drawn); Bowen, J. T. (lith.), 1856, John James Audubon: The birds of America: from drawings m...
EditorialRed-necked Grebe, Red-necked Grebe (Podiceps grisegena, Podiceps rubricollis), Signed: J.J. Audubon, J.T. Bowen, lithograph, Pl. 480 (vol. 7), Audubon, John James (drawn); Bowen, J. T. (lith.), 1856, John James Audubon: The birds of America: from drawi...
EditorialBlack Necked Stilt, American Stilt (Himantopus nigricollis, Himantopus mexicanus), Signed: J.J. Audubon, J.T. Bowen, lithograph, Pl. 354 (Vol. 6), Audubon, John James (drawn); Bowen, J. T. (lith.), 1856, John James Audubon: The birds of America: from d...
EditorialRing-necked Duck, Ring-billed Duck (Aythya collaris, Fuligula rufitorques), Signed: J.J. Audubon, J.T. Bowen, lithograph, Pl. 398 (Vol. 6), Audubon, John James (drawn); Bowen, J. T. (lith.), 1856, John James Audubon: The birds of America: from drawings...
EditorialWoodland scene with marshy banks, two men and a dog in profile at left, two-long-necked birds at right, from the series 'Six landscapes in Tyrol' after Roelandt Savery.
EditorialEared Grebe, Black-necked Grebe (Podiceps nigricollis, Podiceps auritus), Signed: J.J. Audubon, J.T. Bowen, lithograph, Pl. 482 (vol. 7), Audubon, John James (drawn); Bowen, J. T. (lith.), 1856, John James Audubon: The birds of America: from drawings m...
EditorialSteel bobbin lace with coarse thread as an example of an eight-leg spider with a fragment of lace in which this technique is applied, Natural steel-colored bobbin lace with coarse thread as an example of a spider with eight legs (the pointed oval motif...
EditorialLow-necked body with puffed sleeves of salmon-colored satin, decorated with tendril and candelabrum ornament of silver thread, lovers, chenille and silk, Low-necked body and puffed sleeves of salmon-colored satin, decorated with tendon and candlestick ...