EditorialMarilyn Monroe and Playboy go on tour: Asian exhibition will showcase 1,000 items, including from The Seven Year Itch to Hefner?s red smoking jacket ahead of Hollywood auction
EditorialPetticoat, Medium: cotton Technique: mordant and resist painted and dyed plain weave (chintz) Label: cotton, mordant and resist painted and dyed, Petticoat of glazed chintz with a deep decorative border at the bottom in blue, violet, and shades of red ...
EditorialDress, Bromley Hall, (Middlesex, England, 17121763), Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved copper plate on plain weave, Woman's printed cotton dress, with a low neckline gathered on to a drawstring in front; across the back fullness is gathered...
EditorialFragment, Medium: linen Technique: needle lace (reticella), Fragment of reticella with a broad central band in a design of diamond shapes with circles and diagonal lines. Narrow bands above and below have straight lines intersected by diagonal lines., ...
EditorialBeak-shaped jug, clay, disc-shaped, painted (pottery), fired (pottery), clay, painted and fired, Total: Height: 16.1 cm; Diameter: 13 cm, pottery, Aegean Bronze Age, FM II, The jug with high beak-shaped spout can be assigned to the Early Minoan II A pe...
EditorialNecklace: Pendant, 16th?18th century, Angola, Chokwe peoples, Wood, ceramic, raffia, H x W: 11 x 14 3/4in. (27.9 x 37.5cm), Wood-Ornaments, The broad expanse of open savanna in present-day Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola became a major center o...
EditorialHansel in the Cellar', Hansje-in-the-basement, Drinking bowl on the base of partially gold-plated silver, so-called 'Hansje in the basement'. Various animals were punched in the bowl between lobe ornaments. On top of the bullet in which Hansel is hidde...
EditorialVelvet brocade with pomegranate pattern of gold on wine red, Velvet brocade with pomegranate pattern of gold on wine red. Texture: the pole is intersected in two heights, interleaved with gold and partly crucified. Pattern: rows of pointed arch lines c...
EditorialTent pocket cover, Cover for an animal. The midfield is decorated with a flower within a window. Left and right intersected by concentric windows. Edge shaded with octagons. A beard on top and bottom., Ersari volk, Oost-Turkmenie, c. 1850 - c. 1900, ke...
EditorialMillbeaker of the miller's guild in Rotterdam, Millbeaker of silver. A profiled band runs around the center of the bell-shaped cup, including an engraved weapon with helmet mark and covers: the field intersected with gold and throat, the golden field l...
EditorialBeginning of Psalm 1. Decorated initial 'B'; upper part, with animal and bird intersected in the foliage, and a centaur shooting an arrow at a siren; lower part, David seated playing a harp. A clambering dragon biting at a flower appears in the upright...
EditorialNecklace: Pendant, 16th?18th century, Angola, Chokwe peoples, Wood, ceramic, raffia, H x W: 11 x 14 3/4in. (27.9 x 37.5cm), Wood-Ornaments, The broad expanse of open savanna in present-day Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola became a major center o...
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