EditorialFluted bowl, Achaemenid, ca. 6th?5th century B.C., Iran, Achaemenid, Gold, H. 11.1 cm, Metalwork-Vessels-Inscribed, In the sixth century B.C., under the leadership of Cyrus the Great (r. 538?530 B.C.), the Achaemenid Persian dynasty overthrew Median ki...
EditorialThe Three Judges. Honor? Victorin Daumier; French, 1808-1879. Date: 1858-1860. Dimensions: 363 ? 538 mm. Watercolor and brush and black gouache, with charcoal, heightened with gray gouache, over touches of graphite, on ivory laid paper. Origin: France.
EditorialDance of the Trojans. Henri Fantin-Latour; French, 1836-1904. Date: 1893. Dimensions: 427 ? 520 mm (image); 538 ? 702 mm (sheet). Lithograph in black on off-white China paper laid down on white wove paper. Origin: France.
EditorialView from Palace Terrace at Saint Germain on Laye, from Twenty Views in Paris and its Environs. Thomas Girtin (English, 1775-1802); aquatint by Joseph Constantine Stadler (German, active 1780 and 1812). Date: 1802. Dimensions: 149 ? 463 mm (image); 226...
EditorialView from Palace Terrace at Saint Germain on Laye, from Twenty Views in Paris and its Environs. Thomas Girtin (English, 1775-1802); aquatint by Joseph Constantine Stadler (German, active 1780 and 1812). Date: 1802. Dimensions: 149 ? 463 mm (image); 226...
EditorialLeinster House, Dublin. James Malton; English, 1761-1803. Date: 1792. Dimensions: 317 ? 428 mm (plate); 420 ? 538 mm (sheet). Hand-colored aquatint in black on ivory wove paper. Origin: England.
Editorialtile field, Unknown, 18th century, tin glaze, earthenware, With frame: 28.4 x 53.8 x 3.4cm (284 x 538 x 34mm), Tile: 25.5 x 25.5 x 2cm (255 x 255 x 20mm ), orchard, putto, fruit, amor, woman, man, northern Netherlands, Tile field of two large tiles (on...