EditorialIncense Burner with Chrysanthemum and Knobbed Scrolls. China. Date: 1000-1099. Dimensions: H. 33.3 cm (13 1/4 in.) ; diam. 26.0 cm (10 1/4 in.). Cizhou ware; stoneware, slip-coated with incised decoration on ground of impressed rings (fish roe). Origin...
EditorialDouble Birds on Knobbed Pole. Greek; Thessaly. Date: 800 BC-600 BC. Dimensions: 5.8 x 2.7 x 1.0 cm (2 1/4 x 2 1/16 x 3/8 in.). Bronze. Origin: Thessaly.
EditorialYellow-knobbed curassow, Crax daubentoni, male. (Curasso, Crax globicera) Near threatened. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of an illustration by C. Hayes from William Hayes' Portraits of Rare and Curious Birds from the Menagery of Osterly Park, Lond...
EditorialVase, Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853, Favrile glass, Flat circular base, narrow knobbed stem and flaring 'tulip' - type top of opal and amber glass, with green speckles and stripes on base and stem, forming veins of petal-like shape on t...
EditorialLidded Jar, Tiffany & Company, American, established 1853, Glass, Jar (a), cylindrical shaped, squat, with short broad neck. Irridescent gold. Decoration of flat shapes of green ivy leaves connected by stems. Matching lid (b), knobbed., ca. 1900, glass...
EditorialDesign for clock, Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai, Pen and black ink, brush and yellow, red watercolor, on cream laid paper, Base of clock supported by knobbed feet, at front panel are crouching sphinxes ending with rinceaux decoration. Dial set in flute...
EditorialWine glass, Blown glass, Purple pyri-form cup on knobbed stem and flat foot. Dark aubergine-colored glass., Great Britain, Bohemia, 19th century, glasswares, Decorative Arts, Wine glass.
EditorialCrax urumutum, Print, Crax is a genus of curassows in the order Galliformes, a clade of large, heavy-bodied, ground-feeding birds. They are known from tropical South America with one species, the great curassow, ranging northwards through Central Ameri...
EditorialDouble Birds on Knobbed Pole. Greek; Thessaly. Date: 800 BC-600 BC. Dimensions: 5.8 x 2.7 x 1.0 cm (2 1/4 x 2 1/16 x 3/8 in.). Bronze. Origin: Thessaly.
EditorialGlass aryballos (perfume bottle), Classical, late 6th?5th century B.C., Greek, Eastern Mediterranean, Glass; core-formed, Group I, H. 2 3/4 in. (7 cm), Glass, Translucent cobalt blue, with same color handles; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquois...
EditorialGlass alabastron (perfume bottle), Classical, 5th century B.C., Greek, Eastern Mediterranean, Glass; core-formed, Group I, H. 3 13/16 in. (9.7 cm), Glass, Semi-translucent olive green, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turq...
EditorialDouble Birds on Knobbed Pole. Greek; Thessaly. Date: 800 BC-600 BC. Dimensions: 5.8 x 2.7 x 1.0 cm (2 1/4 x 2 1/16 x 3/8 in.). Bronze. Origin: Thessaly.
EditorialCrax urumutum, Print, Crax is a genus of curassows in the order Galliformes, a clade of large, heavy-bodied, ground-feeding birds. They are known from tropical South America with one species, the great curassow, ranging northwards through Central Ameri...
EditorialCrax daubentoni, Print, The yellow-knobbed curassow (Crax daubentoni) is a large species of bird found in forest and woodland in Colombia and Venezuela. It feeds mainly on the ground, but flies up into trees if threatened. Its most striking features ar...
EditorialFulica cristata, Print, The red-knobbed coot or crested coot, (Fulica cristata), is a member of the rail and crake bird family, the Rallidae., 1700-1880.
EditorialFulica cristata, Print, The red-knobbed coot or crested coot, (Fulica cristata), is a member of the rail and crake bird family, the Rallidae., 1825-1834.
EditorialCrax blumenbachii, Print, The red-billed curassow or red-knobbed curassow (Crax blumenbachii) is an endangered species of cracid that is endemic to lowland Atlantic Forest in the states of Esp?rito Santo, Bahia and Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil. ...
EditorialArgonauta tuberculosa, Print, Argonauta nodosa, also known as the knobby or knobbed argonaut, is a species of pelagic octopus. The female of the species, like all argonauts, creates a paper-thin eggcase that coils around the octopus much like the way a...
EditorialArgonauta tuberculosa, Print, Argonauta nodosa, also known as the knobby or knobbed argonaut, is a species of pelagic octopus. The female of the species, like all argonauts, creates a paper-thin eggcase that coils around the octopus much like the way a...
EditorialDouble Birds on Knobbed Pole. Greek; Thessaly. Date: 800 BC-600 BC. Dimensions: 5.8 x 2.7 x 1.0 cm (2 1/4 x 2 1/16 x 3/8 in.). Bronze. Origin: Thessaly.
EditorialIncense Burner with Chrysanthemum and Knobbed Scrolls. China. Date: 1000-1099. Dimensions: H. 33.3 cm (13 1/4 in.) ; diam. 26.0 cm (10 1/4 in.). Cizhou ware; stoneware, slip-coated with incised decoration on ground of impressed rings (fish roe). Origin...
EditorialGlass aryballos (perfume bottle), Classical, late 6th?5th century B.C., Greek, Eastern Mediterranean, Glass; core-formed, Group I, H. 2 3/4 in. (7 cm), Glass, Translucent cobalt blue, with same color handles; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turquois...
EditorialGlass alabastron (perfume bottle), Classical, 5th century B.C., Greek, Eastern Mediterranean, Glass; core-formed, Group I, H. 3 13/16 in. (9.7 cm), Glass, Semi-translucent olive green, with handles in same color; trails in opaque yellow and opaque turq...
EditorialGlass alabastron (perfume bottle), Classical, late 6th?5th century B.C., Greek, Eastern Mediterranean, Glass; core-formed, Group I, H.: 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm), Glass, Translucent blue, with handles in opaque yellow; trails in opaque yellow. Broad flat rim...
EditorialRed-knobbed coot or crested coot, Fulica cristata. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1824.
EditorialVariable dendrobium orchid, Dendrobium mutabile (Three-knobbed dendrobium, Dendrobium triadenium). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards' Botanical Register, edited by John Lindley, ...
EditorialKnobbed hornbill or Sulawesi wrinkled hornbill, Aceros cassidix (Crested hornbill, Buceros cassidix). Vulnerable. Handcoloured engraving from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1829.
EditorialYellow-knobbed curassow, Crax daubentoni, male. (Curasso, Crax globicera) Near threatened. Handcoloured copperplate engraving of an illustration by C. Hayes from William Hayes' Portraits of Rare and Curious Birds from the Menagery of Osterly Park, Lond...
EditorialSilver bowl, Carolingian, 9th century. Ecclesiastical bowl of gilded solver and niello with a knobbed lid, decorated in relief with rosettes of acanthus leaves, some enclosing crosses and vine tendrils inhabited by birds. The birds are a Christian symb...