EditorialCover, glass, Molded pear-shaped body on knopped, domed foot on square base. Conical cover with cut, pontill acorn finial. overall pattern of notched vertical ribs base has radial trefoil fluting on underside., Ireland, ca. 1800, glasswares, Decorative...
EditorialCeiling paper, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Sandy Hill, New York, Machine-printed paper, Trellis or grid pattern featuring alternating leaf-like quatrefoils with scalloped border and beige medallions containing radial, foli...
EditorialSidewall, Block-printed, handmade paper, Square of paper showing two motifs of a large-scale geometric pattern. One motif in orange, circular, with repeating blue-black cone shapes, a white design at center and blue-black radial surround. The other mot...
EditorialJug and stopper, Glass, Round body tapering to tall neck with evented lip and pouring spout, loop handle; band of wide flute cut around bottom of sides, above, a row of horizontal and vertical narrow fluting, wide flutings continue up to lip through 3 ...
EditorialVe?e perspective de la d?coration ?lev?e sur la terrasse du Ch?teau de Versailles pour lillumination et le feu dartifice qui a ?t? tir? ? loccasion du mariage de Madame Louise-Elisabeth de France avec Don Philippe Second Jnfant dEspagne le XXVI Aoust M...
EditorialCaster, Glass, Urn shape on square star out base. Flat fluted skin and foot with rug knop. All over diamond cut pattern with prismatic rings. Upturned rim with fan flutes and baluster finial with pierced, radial cut button top pierced with holes., Euro...
EditorialCiborium with lid, Gilt copper, Cylindrical cup engraved with architectural arcades, on half-knopped stem, gadrooned, ornamented with applied volute straps; junction of stem with bowl ornamented with applied radial leaf ornament. High foot composed of ...
EditorialMug and cover, glass, Ovoid body; flared foot, fluted, with radial cutting on bottom; loop handl cut with notches; domed lid with tall faceted finial; body cut with centralband of swags, printies, & a tiny diamond background, a band of diamonds above a...
EditorialBowl, Glass, Shallow round bowl cut with alternate panels of strawberry diamonds and panels with fan cutting and tiny diamonds, top edge scalloped; tall stem with round faceted knop, flat circular base with radial cutting on bottom; glass has greyish c...
EditorialJar and cover, glass, Ovoid jar and cover on plain, short stem and square pedestal base all overs step cutting cover has notch for spoon. Mushroom finial with radial cutting., Ireland, ca. 182030, glasswares, Decorative Arts, Jar and cover.
EditorialButton, Hoof, brass, Convex button ornamented in design showing breastplate and helmet of steel armor surrounded by a border of radial lines. Marking on reverse indecipherable. Button worn by railroad men in time of war., On card E, France, 18751914, c...
EditorialCeiling paper, Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA, Machine-printed paper, liquid mica, Rococo inspired ceiling paper with large trellis pattern formed of scrollwork navettes with medallions outlined in c and s-scrolls at intersections. Medalli...
EditorialDesign for the Elevation of a Sepulchral Monument, Probably for the Young Pretender Charles Edward Stuart (died 1788), Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 17461809, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper, Two sections of circular ...
EditorialSidewall, Machine-printed paper, varnish, Full width. Sanitary paper composed of simulated tiles, with green lines marking the squares and three units of design to the width of the paper. Simple radial geometric figure set with foliage scrolls. Printed...
EditorialHarpocrates with Pat?ke, Clay, pressed into the mold, hand modeled, fired (pottery), cold painting, clay, Total: Height: 13.8 cm, Pottery, Harpocrates, Dwarfs, late Hellenistic, Early Imperial, Middle Imperial, Late Imperial, On a flat, smooth base the...
EditorialBronze ring, staple with two bent ends, to which the ring hangs, and bronze baffle plate, which separated the ring, possibly attached to a box, from the box. The ring is decorated on one side with a radial line motif., Staple, metal, bronze, length: 11...
EditorialGlass Positive - 'Distribution of Radial Velocities in Sunspots', circa 1920s, Glass slide of a chart showing distribution of radial velocities in sunspots, from a book by American astronomer Charles Edward St John, circa 1920s. It is part of a collect...
EditorialAtrypa, Print, Atrypa is a genus of brachiopod with shells round to short egg-shaped, covered with many fine radial ridges (or costae), that split further out and growthlines perpendicular to the costae and 2-3 times wider spaced. The pedunculate valve...
EditorialCytherea chione, Print, Callista chione, the smooth clam, is a rather large, temperate, marine, bivalve mollusc that inhabits sandy bottoms or with small pebbles in clean waters down to about 200 m from the British Isles to the Mediterranean. The shell...
EditorialCytherea chione, Print, Callista chione, the smooth clam, is a rather large, temperate, marine, bivalve mollusc that inhabits sandy bottoms or with small pebbles in clean waters down to about 200 m from the British Isles to the Mediterranean. The shell...
EditorialAmphistegina haueri, Print, Amphistegina is a genus of foraminiferal protists included in the Rotaliida with a stritigraphic range extending from the Eocene to recent and a cosmopolitan distribution. The test is an asymmetrically biconvex trochospiral ...
EditorialAnthocharis, Print, Anthocharis is a Holarctic genus of the butterfly tribe Anthocharini, in the family Pieridae. These are typically small, white-hued butterflies that have colorful marks just inside the tips of the forewings. The tip colors are usual...
EditorialAmphistegina quoyi, Print, Amphistegina is a genus of foraminiferal protists included in the Rotaliida with a stritigraphic range extending from the Eocene to recent and a cosmopolitan distribution. The test is an asymmetrically biconvex trochospiral t...
EditorialMiniature of the Wheel of the Twelve Attributes of Human Existence, with Christ's head in the centre, surrounded by twenty-five radial segments with readings about the twelve ages of man, and symbols of the four evangelists in each corner. Psalter of R...
EditorialWheel of Sevens. Psalter of Robert de Lisle. England [London?]; circa 1310. [Whole folio] Diagram of 7 concentric circles with inscriptions, each divided in 7 radial segments.The circles contain the 7 requests of the Lord's Prayer, 7 Sacraments of the ...
EditorialMiniature of the Wheel of the Twelve Attributes of Human Existence, with Christ's head in the centre, surrounded by twenty-five radial segments with readings about the twelve ages of man, and symbols of the four evangelists in each corner. Psalter of R...
EditorialDish with Scalloped Rim and Radial Pattern, 12th?early 13th century, Made in Iran, probably Rayy, Stonepaste; luster-painted, in-glaze painted, transparent colorless and blue glaze, H. 2 5/16 in. (5.9 cm), Ceramics, Luster pieces like this scalloped di...
EditorialBracelet Modeled on Shell Ornament, Kofun period (ca. 300?710), 4th century, Japan, Green steatite with red pigment, H. 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm); W. 7 5/8 in. (19.4 cm); D. 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm), Stone, This irregular disk with smooth radial fluting is a fine ...
EditorialImitation Green-Splashed Samarra Ware, 9th?10th century, Excavated in Iran, Nishapur, Earthenware; painted in black with splashes of green on opaque white (tin) glaze, H. 2 1/2 in (6.3 cm), Ceramics, This bowl, with its opaque white ground, splashes of...
EditorialBowl, late 12th?early 13th century, Made in Syria, probably Damascus, Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze, Diam. 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm), Ceramics, This bowl represents another innovation that coincided with the Syrian adoption of stonep...
EditorialFolding table made of black lacquered without strain, with an oval folding blade. The leaf is painted with a multicolored flower garland around a parrot sitting on a branch; The rim is decorated with leaves and flowers, as even multicolored, all on bla...
EditorialCrowns of the ancients: radial crowns 1,2, laurel wreaths 3,4, civic crown 5, Obsidionalis (for generals who delivered a town under siege) 6, crenellated Murali (for the first man to cross the wall of a besieged town) 7, Vallaris (for soldiers who stor...