EditorialDesign for an Earring, Pen and black ink, brush and gray watercolor on light green paper, Jewelry design for an earring. Usual design scheme with a disk above and three drops below. In the center is a basket with flower stems and a central blossom. Eac...
EditorialIncense burner, Silvered brass, Platform resting on four ball feet; incurving corners with leaf ornaments. Gallery which is set back of flange on platform is pierced in leaf design with solid panels at corners. On the platform are two square blocks eac...
EditorialCeiling paper, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Sandy Hill, New York, Machine-printed paper, Alternating large and small quatrefoil medallions contain foliate scrollwork and pearl details. Four floral swags radiate out from eac...
EditorialAttic black-figure oinochoe, shape 2. Decoration of seated Heracles holding lyre and oinochoe and seated Athena holding helmet and spear. Attic black-figured oinocho?, form 2, depicting Herakles in the company of the goddess Athena. They are facing eac...
EditorialDeath of Elisabeth van Dam, Silver Medal, oval. Front: lying figure on a resting bed above the cartouche with inscription, above it two little angels with pennants and inscriptions. Reverse: canvas with inscription held up by skeleton with torch in eac...
EditorialTerracotta lebes gamikos (round-bottomed bowl with handles and stand used in weddings), Classical, ca. 440?430 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H.: 16 5/8 in. (42.2 cm), Vases, Obverse, seated woman and attendants, Reverse, two women, At eac...
EditorialA scene on the coast. The charaters of the story are trying to observe the green ray. After numerous unsuccessful tries caused by clouds or distant boat sails hiding the sun, the phenomenon is eventually visible, but the characters, finding love in eac...
Editorial[View Across the Egyptian Court; View through Egyptian Columns into Classical Sculpture Gallery; Side View of Egyptian Colonnade; Facade of the Hall of Columns], ca. 1859, Albumen silver print from glass negative, 7.9 x 8.1 cm (3 1/8 x 3 3/16 in.), eac...
EditorialTerracotta lebes gamikos (round-bottomed bowl with handles and stand used in weddings), Classical, ca. 440?430 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H.: 16 5/8 in. (42.2 cm), Vases, Obverse, seated woman and attendants, Reverse, two women, At eac...
EditorialFemale protome-mask, Cypro-Archaic II, ca. 600?480 B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta; mold-made and hand-made, H. 4 in. (10.2 cm), Terracottas, The protome-mask has a mold-made face. The flat neck and upper chest are handmade. There is a perforation behind eac...