EditorialEXCLUSIVE: ?Trolls say I?m a bad mum and doctors warned I?d never have kids ? but I beat the odds to raise my girls,? says woman with rare condition
EditorialDesign for Two Brooches, Pen and ink, brush and watercolor, sepia on paper, Sbove, an octagonal diamond is framed by volutes with pearls of various sizes. On top, a crown; at the sides two big pearls; hanging an oval diamond. Inside the frame, four sma...
EditorialTurban Band, Medium: wool weft Technique: slit tapestry, Narrow slit tapestry strip with adjacent diagonal stepped repeats in white, rose reds, browns, golden yellow. One end finished with attached long tassel of brown wool yarns joined at top by a sma...
EditorialSidewall, Block-printed on handmade paper, Design consists of a single circular medallion or rosette containing a five petalled flower in off-white with a green center. This center motif is enclosed with a similar flower with green centers but in a sma...
EditorialSidewall, Gilded paper, embossed, Imitation leather. The design is composed of continuous parallel diagonal bands of ornament. There are eight different bands before the repeat. Each band is of Chinese inspired motifs, largely of fret work designs, sma...
EditorialSt. Martin healing the lame and blind beggars against their wishes, Medium: linen foundation with silk, metal-wrapped silk Technique: two layers of plain weave embroidered with split and stem stitches using silk and couched metal-wrapped silk, Five sma...
EditorialSmall-format relief (man with sword), alabaster, chiseled, reliefed, alabaster, Total: Height: 11.5 cm; Width: 8 cm; Depth: 3.5 cm, Inscription: at the upper edge: XII [head] I [O? ], Reliefs, human body/figure/act, man, standing figure, sword, The sma...
EditorialA red-nested lamp with an oval body on a recessed, round base. The concave mirror is surrounded by a recessed circle and decorated with a relief of Hermes with an indistinct object in one, a caduceus in the other hand. The short, broad spout with a sma...
EditorialA red-bristling-varnished lamp with an oval body on a recessed, round base. The hollow mirror is surrounded by concentric circles and decorated with a relief of a boat with two monkeys in it, one of which holds an oar. The short, broad spout with a sma...
EditorialA gray-gray lamp with a round body on a round base. The round, concave mirror is surrounded by a relief edge and undecorated with the small filling hole in the middle. The shoulder is decorated with rough relief points. The round, blunt spout had a sma...
EditorialA lamp of red earthenware with an oval-shaped body on a round base. The round, flat mirror is surrounded by a relief edge with the large filling hole in the middle. The shoulder runs diagonally and is ribbed. The short, rounded, rounded spout has a sma...
EditorialA brown-tinted light with a round body on a round base. The hollow, round mirror is surrounded with concentric circles and decorated with a Serapis bait. The small filling hole is to the left of the figure. The short, blunt spout is round and has a sma...
EditorialA red-varnished oil lamp with a round body on a flat base. The concave mirror is surrounded by recessed concentric circles and is decorated with a rosette. The short, broad spout with a large fire hole is sharply closed and framed with volutes. The sma...
EditorialA red-nested lamp with a round body on a round base. The round, concave mirror is surrounded by concentric circles and decorated with a relief of a mask. The small filling hole is to the left of the figure. The short, blunt spout is round and has a sma...
EditorialA red-nested lamp with a round body on a round base. The round, concave mirror is surrounded by a recessed circle and decorated with a relief of a ten-leaf rosette with the small filling hole in the middle. The short, blunt spout is round and has a sma...
EditorialA red-bristling-varnished lamp with a round body on a round pedestal. The round, concave mirror is surrounded by concentric circles and undecorated with the small filling hole in the middle. The short, blunt spout is flat and round closed and has a sma...
EditorialA red-nested lamp with an oval body on a flat, round base. The concave mirror is surrounded by concentric circles and decorated with a relief of two masks. The short, broad spout with a small fire hole is rounded off and decorated with volutes. The sma...
EditorialA red-nested lamp with a round body on a round base. The hollow, round mirror is surrounded by concentric circles and decorated with a relief of two horns of plenty. The small filling hole is in the middle. The short, blunt spout is round and has a sma...
EditorialA red-nested lamp with a round body on a round base. The round, concave mirror is surrounded by a recessed circle and decorated with a relief of a ten-leaf rosette with the small filling hole in the middle. The short, blunt spout is round and has a sma...
EditorialPanel of an Altarpiece with Circumcision of Christ, on the reverse is Resurrection of Christ. In a church the Christ child is circumcised by the high priest, Mary and Joseph hold the child. Several men and women around it. In the corners at the top sma...
EditorialPhotograph - Soldiers, Chathams Post, Gallipoli, Turkey, Trooper George Simpson Millar, World War I, 1915, Photograph in an album that belonged to an Australian serviceman in the 5th Australian Light House during World War I. The album contains 103 sma...
EditorialPagurus tibicen, Print, Pagurus is a genus of hermit crabs in the family Paguridae. Like other hermit crabs, their abdomen is not calcified and they use snail shells as protection. These marine decapod crustaceans are omnivorous, but mostly prey on sma...
EditorialPagurus tibicen, Print, Pagurus is a genus of hermit crabs in the family Paguridae. Like other hermit crabs, their abdomen is not calcified and they use snail shells as protection. These marine decapod crustaceans are omnivorous, but mostly prey on sma...
EditorialPlague Victims Pleading for Help from Christ, the Virgin, and Saint Roch. Dated: 1567/1573. Dimensions: overall: 28.9 x 16.3 cm (11 3/8 x 6 7/16 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white gouache, with a sma...
EditorialPlague Victims Pleading for Help from Christ, the Virgin, and Saint Roch. Dated: 1567/1573. Dimensions: overall: 28.9 x 16.3 cm (11 3/8 x 6 7/16 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white gouache, with a sma...
EditorialTerracotta figurines of two gladiators, Roman, 1st-2nd CE. The distinctive small shields of this pair of gladiotors show that the duel is between two heavily-armed combatants, a hoplomachus with a Greek circular shield and a Thraex, with a thracian sma...