EditorialEXCLUSIVE: Nigel Mansell memorabilia sale total goes over ?2million as face fans snap up helmets, race suits, trophies from glittering F1 career
EditorialA tennis match on clay keeps no secrets. The red canvas is clean to start. Then, with each step, slide and bounce of the ball, two players paint the story. Over several hours, tennis becomes a form of abstract expressionism. (Pete Kiehart/The New York Times)
EditorialA tennis match on clay keeps no secrets. The red canvas is clean to start. Then, with each step, slide and bounce of the ball, two players paint the story. Over several hours, tennis becomes a form of abstract expressionism. (Pete Kiehart/The New York Times)
EditorialA tennis match on clay keeps no secrets. The red canvas is clean to start. Then, with each step, slide and bounce of the ball, two players paint the story. Over several hours, tennis becomes a form of abstract expressionism. (Pete Kiehart/The New York Times)
EditorialA tennis match on clay keeps no secrets. The red canvas is clean to start. Then, with each step, slide and bounce of the ball, two players paint the story. Over several hours, tennis becomes a form of abstract expressionism. (Pete Kiehart/The New York Times)
EditorialA tennis match on clay keeps no secrets. The red canvas is clean to start. Then, with each step, slide and bounce of the ball, two players paint the story. Over several hours, tennis becomes a form of abstract expressionism. (Pete Kiehart/The New York Times)
EditorialTwo Olmec statuettes, one female, one male. The women is painted red, with yellow headgear and an open navel; the man wears a cape, earplugs and a headband. Clay (1200-600 BCE).
EditorialWinged spirit (G?nie protecteur) 7th century BCE; Tell Ahmar; reign of Ashurbanipal? Element of a decorative frieze; on coating of clay, colours posed on a whitewash (chalk milk): ochre, red, carbon black, Egyptian blue H.: 49cm; W.: 55cm AO 23009.
Editorialhorse, Formerly Johannes W. F. Collection Reimers (Hamburg), clay, hand-modeled, fired (ceramic), painted (ceramic), cold painting, clay, Total: Height: 13 cm; Width: 13.3 cm; Depth: 4.2 cm, ceramic, small sculptures/small works of art, three-dimension...
EditorialPenthesilea Painter, bowl form B (outside: visit to the horse stable, inside: two boys making music), clay, quickly turned, painted (ceramic), alternately fired, clay, total: height: 11 cm; diameter: 27 cm, inscription: Pictures inside and outside: ('T...
EditorialEric Loliée, a coach and also unofficial archivist for the Tennis Club of Paris, with a class of beginners, May 18, 2022. (James Hill/The New York Times)
EditorialA 650-pound Red Wattle-cross sow to be killed and cleaned for a cookout at Peculiar Pig Farms in Ridgeville, S.C., Feb. 12, 2022. (Clay Williams/The New York Times)
EditorialAncient vase in the British Museum. Vase in red clay with black designs of mythological figures including Hercules, Mercury, etc. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Henry Moses from A Collection of Antique Vases, Altars, etc., London, 1814.
Editorialsaucer, Anonymous, 17th century, tin glaze, ink, paper, earthenware, General: 4.8 x 33.5 cm (48 x 335 mm), Deep saucer of white Delft earthenware with the family crest of Van der Meer on the edge. Red fired clay with white tin glaze with the family cre...
Editorial17th Century Gentleman Smoking Pipe, Reed & Barton, American, 18242015, Silver, enamel, Oblong, with upper, lower parts and sides curved, featuring polychrome enamel decoration of gentleman, legs crossed and seated at table, dressed in 17th century cos...