Editorial" Palace Ware" jar, Neo-Assyrian, from Ninveh, northern Iraq, 700-612 BCE. " Palace Ware" is very thin and delicate, with flared rims and dimples on the body. Potters made the dimples by pressing with their fingers. Finger marks are...
EditorialVase, Favrile glass, Iridescent blue, purple and green glass. Free-blown ovoid shape with flattened shoulders. Short neck, about one third diameter of body, flares slightly. Body decorated in upper half with bands of five rosettes composed of five appl...
EditorialBox and cover, lacquered wood, Cylindrical box with cover, made of a segment of a bamboo stem. Ferns in gold 'hira-makiye' lacquer on ground of 'shunkei-nuri' (reddish-brown) lacquer. The depressions in top and underneath are due to formation of the no...
EditorialVase with incised plant decoration, Stoneware, glazed, celadon, Total: Height: 21.8 cm; Diameter: 10.6 cm; Diameter: 7 cm (foot); Weight: 640 g, Ceramics, Ornamental objects, Plant ornaments, Northern Song Dynasty, The vase represents a famous type of ...
EditorialCandlestick, bronze, gold, silver, inlaid, bronze with gold and silver inlays, Total: Height: 25,30 cm; Diameter: 21,20 cm, ornaments, birds, Based on the precious metal utensils of the Sassanids, a variety of outstanding bronze works were created in P...
EditorialCooker with depressions, Grooves and recesses in the tarpaulin keep the heavier goldish back, woodcut, p. 260, (Liber octavus), Manuel, Hans Rudolf (graveur sur bois), 1556, Georgius Agricola: De re metallica libri XII: quibus officia, instrumenta, mac...
EditorialLeibrock, Chromolithography, Leibrock with cellular depressions, signature: color print by Henry & Cohen, plate II, Henry & Cohen (imp.), 1859, Franz Bock: Geschichte der liturgischen Gew?nder des Mittelalters oder Entstehung und Entwicklung der kirchl...
Editorial" Palace Ware" jar, Neo-Assyrian, from Ninveh, northern Iraq, 700-612 BCE. " Palace Ware" is very thin and delicate, with flared rims and dimples on the body. Potters made the dimples by pressing with their fingers. Finger marks are...