EditorialWine Bottle Cooler (Seau ? Demi-Bouteille), Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766, soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, Cylindrical, with rounded base and slightly splayed foot; projecting gadrooned rim and rodent-head hand...
EditorialCup and Saucer, Frankenthal Porcelain Factory, German, active mid- to late 18th century, hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, Cylindrical, with rounded base and slightly splayed foot; projecting gadrooned rim and tiger-head handles. Lower portion of ...
EditorialWine Bottle Cooler (Seau ? Demi-Bouteille), Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory, French, active by 1693 - 1766, soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, Cylindrical, with rounded base and slightly splayed foot; projecting gadrooned rim and rodent-head hand...
EditorialHermanus Willem Koekkoek, Council of War, 1867-1927, oil on canvas, 34 1/4 in. x 49 5/8 in. (87 cm. x 126.1 cm.), Hermanus Willem Koekkoek came from a family of Dutch artists and was trained in Amsterdam by his father Willem. Though he was born three y...
EditorialMarble palette, Early Cycladic I, ca. 3000?2800 B.C., Cycladic, Marble, width 2 9/16in. (6.5cm), The palette is an established shape in the repertoire of Cycladic marble utensils. Recurrent traces of red pigment, as here, suggest that palettes were use...
EditorialGold capsule in the form of a grasshopper, Archaic-Classical, 6th?4th century B.C., Cypriot, Gold, Other: 1 in. (2.5 cm), Gold and Silver, A recurrent object of the Archaic and Classical periods--part amulet, part jewelry--is the small capsule worn as ...