EditorialRelief-Carved Bowl, 12th?9th century B.C., Mexico, Mesoamerica, Olmec, Ceramic, H. 4 7/16 x Diam. 5 15/16 in. (11.2 x 15 cm), Ceramics-Containers, This straight-sided blackware bowl features a long-beaked bird and a scroll design in low relief. The con...
EditorialShort-beaked echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus. (Aculeated anteater, Myrmecophaga aculeata) Illustration copied from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder. Based on an original drawing by the Port Jackson Painter. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from "The ...
EditorialA juvenile male silver-beaked tanager, locally known as the come-queso, or cheese-eater, near Florencia, Colombia, Aug. 8, 2021. (Federico Rios/The New York Times)
EditorialA tawny frogmouth, a nocturnal bird native to Australia and Southeast Asia, at the Staten Island Zoo in New York, July 11, 2014. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
EditorialA tawny frogmouth, a nocturnal bird native to Australia and Southeast Asia, at the Staten Island Zoo in New York, July 11, 2014. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
EditorialA glossy gray, earthenware beak cane on three legs with a leaf-shaped beaked spout. On the belly you can see four curls, crockery, pottery, H 15 cm, D 8 cm, Early bronze age 2800-2500 BC, Turkey.
EditorialAn earthenware beak cane on a foot. The object has a high vertical ear and a long pointed beaked spout. An animal print surround adorns the edge of the spout, tableware, earthenware, H 19.2 cm, D 12.5 cm, L incl. Ear and spout 29.2 cm, D border 9.5 cm,...
EditorialBeak bowl with semi-spherical body, a long beaked spout and a twisted handle., Crockery, earthenware, H 10.3 cm, D 10 cm, B incl. Ear and spout 22.5 cm, Iron Age II 1000-800 v. Chr., Iran.
EditorialMiddle-Cycladic III (Melian?), Handmade rim-fragment of the spout or a beaked jug. Linear decoration. Middle-Cycladic III (Melian?), Handmade rim-fragment of the spout or a beaked jug. Linear decoration., Vase, fragment, beaked jug, earthenware, prehis...
EditorialLate-Cycladic, handmade body fragment, possibly part of the spout or a beaked jug. Late-Cycladic, handmade body fragment, possibly part of the spout or a beaked jug., Vase, fragment, beaked jug, earthenware, prehistoric, LB, late-cycladic, 3.8 x 5.1 cm...
EditorialBeaked can of gray earthenware, long beaked spout, in normal U-shaped, tableware, earthenware, H 22 cm, D 19 cm, B incl. Spout 29.2 cm, Iron age 1100-900 BC, Iran.
EditorialA gray baked, rounded beak on a foot. The horizontal beaked spout is directly opposite a vertical earpiece, tableware, earthenware, H 18.1 cm, D 14.2 cm, B incl. Ear and spout 26.3 cm, D edge 8 cm, Iran.
EditorialAn earthenware beak cane with a foot and a long slightly curved beaked spout, tableware, earthenware, H 22.5 cm, D 19 cm, B incl. Spout and ear 34.6 cm, D edge 9.9 cm, Iron age I 1100 1000 BC, Iran.
EditorialBelt Buckle with Beaked Ungulates, North China, 2nd century B.C., North China, Gilded bronze, H. 2 13/16 in. (7.1 cm); W. 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm), Metalwork.
EditorialRelief-Carved Bowl, 12th?9th century B.C., Mexico, Mesoamerica, Olmec, Ceramic, H. 4 7/16 x Diam. 5 15/16 in. (11.2 x 15 cm), Ceramics-Containers, This straight-sided blackware bowl features a long-beaked bird and a scroll design in low relief. The con...
EditorialJarro de Pico, late 16th century, Spanish, Valladolid, Silver, parcel-gilt, Overall (confirmed): max ht. 7 5/8; ht. from upper edge of body: 6 5/16 x 8 3/8 x 4 3/16 in., 2.1lb. (19.4; 16 x 21.3 x 10.6 cm, 04kg), Metalwork-Silver, A luxury utensil of ne...
EditorialAves, Print, Birds, also known as Aves or avian dinosaurs, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightw...
EditorialNarwhal or narwhale, Monodon monoceros, and short-beaked common dolphin, Delphinus delphis. Chromolithograph from Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's Natural History (Naturgeschichte), Schreiber, Munich, 1886.
EditorialSowerby's beaked whale, Mesoplodon bidens (Physeter bidens, two-toothed cachalot). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects, London, 1804.
EditorialMyrmecophaga Aculeata. The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus.) Porcupine anteater. Vivarium Naturae sive rerum naturalium ... icones ad ipsam naturam depictae et descript?.-The Naturalists' Miscellany, or coloured figures of natural objec...
EditorialRelief-Carved Bowl, 12th?9th century B.C., Mexico, Mesoamerica, Olmec, Ceramic, H. 4 7/16 x Diam. 5 15/16 in. (11.2 x 15 cm), Ceramics-Containers, This straight-sided blackware bowl features a long-beaked bird and a scroll design in low relief. The con...
EditorialJarro de Pico, late 16th century, Spanish, Valladolid, Silver, parcel-gilt, Overall (confirmed): max ht. 7 5/8; ht. from upper edge of body: 6 5/16 x 8 3/8 x 4 3/16 in., 2.1lb. (19.4; 16 x 21.3 x 10.6 cm, 04kg), Metalwork-Silver, A luxury utensil of ne...
EditorialNarwhal or narwhale, Monodon monoceros, and short-beaked common dolphin, Delphinus delphis. Chromolithograph from Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert's Natural History (Naturgeschichte), Schreiber, Munich, 1886.
EditorialSowerby's beaked whale, Mesoplodon bidens (Physeter bidens, two-toothed cachalot). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects, London, 1804.
EditorialShort-beaked common dolphin, Delphinus delphis. Handcoloured engraving by Beyer after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle (Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1849.
EditorialShort-beaked echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus. (Aculeated anteater, Myrmecophaga aculeata) Illustration copied from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder. Based on an original drawing by the Port Jackson Painter. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from "The ...