EditorialDesign for a Decorative Aedicula, Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash, graphite on laid paper, Vertical rectangle. Design for a shrine standing upon a two-stepped base, with roof supported by four columns, those behind connected by a wall with a niche. A...
EditorialWindow shade, Block-printed, Printed in wide band near bottom edge: gray half-circles under beading, alternating with motif resembling cast-iron fence. Overprinted with stylized floral motifs. Bell flower pendants below. Printed in gray, metallic gold,...
EditorialSide chair, Parcel-gilt fruit wood, Open square back with design of one full and two half-circles interlocked, with a pierced cartouche at the mid-point. Straight moulded seat rails, caned seat. Legs are round, straight, tapered, and with reeded flutes...
EditorialDesign for a Baptismal Font, Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 17461809, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper, The bowl has a plan of a rectangle, the short sides of which are supported by half circles. It is supported by an o...
EditorialDesign for the Grand Staircase at the Royal Palace of Caserta, Italy, Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, graphite on laid paper; verso: graphite, Section and half of the lowest flight of the stair shown in bird's eye view. The plan is an ovoid. Ov...
EditorialAn ovoid lamp of light red earthenware with a round, flat mirror surrounded with concentric circles and the small filling hole in the middle. The shoulder, which gradually overflows into the spout, is decorated with half circles, spirals and stripes. T...
EditorialA dark red-nested light with a round body. The round mirror is surrounded by a thick rim with a large filling hole. The shoulder is decorated with half circles. At the back an upright wash out. The wide, horizontally closed spout is decorated with an u...
EditorialFragment light side with embroidered partially flung stripes, semicircles, scalloped rectangles, decorative flowers and rays, Fragment (A) light side with embroidered partially flung stripes, whole and half circles, rectangles with scalloped edge, grac...
EditorialDress from bobbin lace with one whole circle between four half and four quarter circles, Dress from natural-colored Genoese bobbin lace. Rectangular model. The dress is divided into four with a horizontal and vertical line. Around each corner of the fo...
EditorialDoor jamb of the rock-cut temple of Beit al Wali, Kalabsha, Egypt. Two cartouches. Top: the bee and half-circles for " King of Upper and Lower Egypt, King of two Lands". Bottom cartouche: the name of Pharaoh Ramses II (1290-1224 BCE), 19th Dy...