EditorialSidewall, M.H. Birge & Sons Co., 1834, Embossed paper, hand-rubbed oil finish, Imitation leather. Textured green paper imitating embossed leather. Darker brown pigment rubbed into crevices., Buffalo, New York, USA, 190810, Wallcoverings, Sidewall.
EditorialToad, Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818, Silver, In the shape of a toad, its feet folded up against body, its belly smooth, the back textured with bumps, some green patination in crevices. Hinge attached to top o...
EditorialFishing Basket, Brass, In the form of a fishing basket, with raised, simulated woven straw on canted lid and body, small loop of twisted straw at front of lid, longer twisted loop at basket back, some green patination in crevices. Flat lid hinged on ba...
EditorialTHE GREAT BANYAN, OR SACRED TREE, OF INDIA (Ficus indica). A banyan (also banian) is a fig that starts its life as an epiphyte (a plant growing on another plant) when its seeds germinate in the cracks and crevices on a host tree (or on structures like ...