EditorialGrande robe du soir en brocart d'argent. Costumes Parisiens no.73. Perrugue bleue, aigrettes. Women depicted wearing evening dress with silver brocade, red slippers and a blue wig with silver headress, background shows a white peakcock on a tree branc...
EditorialHogweed or cow parsnip, Heracleum sphondylium, berce branc-ursine. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincqs La Regne Vegetal: Planets A...
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk Technique: cut and uncut supplementary warp pile (velvet) on satin ground, Fragment of red cut and uncut velvet on white ground. Design of diagonally running irregular areas in uncut pile connected by lines of cut pile with branc...
EditorialCylindrical bottle vase with panel decoration with flower sprays, Cylindrical, bottle shaped porcelain vase, with thickening in the neck and spreading edge, painted in underglaze blue. On the wall two rows of lobed cartouches filled with a flower branc...
EditorialHogweed or cow parsnip, Heracleum sphondylium, berce branc-ursine. Handcoloured steel engraving by Oudet after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincqs La Regne Vegetal: Planets A...
EditorialCylindrical bottle vase with panel decoration with flower sprays, Cylindrical, bottle shaped porcelain vase, with thickening in the neck and spreading edge, painted in underglaze blue. On the wall two rows of lobed cartouches filled with a flower branc...
EditorialHoly Apollonia, Holy Apollonia. Part of a series of 24 representations of female martyrs (martyrologium). The performances feature borders with flowers and animals, the virgin martyr Apollonia or Alexandria, possible attributes: book, crown, palm branc...
EditorialLidded pot, Lidded pot made of earthenware, belonging to a three-part set of cupboards, with black and liquid-blue transfer decoration, painted with enamel colors and ocher cluster, heightened with gold. On the belly two cartouches with birds and branc...
EditorialGrande robe du soir en brocart d'argent. Costumes Parisiens no.73. Perrugue bleue, aigrettes. Women depicted wearing evening dress with silver brocade, red slippers and a blue wig with silver headress, background shows a white peakcock on a tree branc...
Editorial?????, Wagtail on a Rock, Nanbokucho period (1336?92), mid-14th century, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink on silk, Image: 32 3/4 ? 13 3/4 in. (83.2 ? 34.9 cm), Paintings, Attributed to Taikyo Genju (Japanese, active mid-14th century), Near two withered branc...