EditorialEXCLUSIVE: Nigel Mansell memorabilia sale total goes over ?2million as face fans snap up helmets, race suits, trophies from glittering F1 career
EditorialA tennis match on clay keeps no secrets. The red canvas is clean to start. Then, with each step, slide and bounce of the ball, two players paint the story. Over several hours, tennis becomes a form of abstract expressionism. (Pete Kiehart/The New York Times)
EditorialA tennis match on clay keeps no secrets. The red canvas is clean to start. Then, with each step, slide and bounce of the ball, two players paint the story. Over several hours, tennis becomes a form of abstract expressionism. (Pete Kiehart/The New York Times)
EditorialMycenaean vase from Dominus Flevit in Jerusalem, the Franciscan monastery built on the spot where, according to tradition, Jesus was flogged. Clay, red and black paint, Late Bronze Age.
EditorialTwo assyrian dignitaries placed behind the royal throne, scene of audience Tell Ahmar; approximately 8th century BCE; on clay coating with colours posed on whitewash (chalk, milk): ochre red, carbon black, Egyptian blue H.: 65cm; W.: 62,50cm AO 23011.
EditorialKantharos (A, B: two mythical creatures), Clay, Clay, Total: Height: 25 cm; Diameter: 15,5 cm, Ceramics, Horse, Fabulous animals (hoofed animals), Aries (animal), Animals as ornament, Palmette (ornament), Antiquity, While the form and also the theme of...
EditorialSea Island red peas, an indigenous variety, are cooked with fresh cuts of pork at a cookout where a hog was slaughtered, at Peculiar Pig Farms in Ridgeville, S.C., Feb. 12, 2022. (Clay Williams/The New York Times)
Editorialworkshop of Full-Sakkos Painter, Etruscan, Lebes, 350/300 BC, Clay, painted, red-figure Faliscan Ware, 7 1/8 x 6 1/2 x 5 in. (18.1 x 16.5 x 12.7 cm).
Editorialgargoyle, Anonymous, 18th century, enamel, earthenware, General: 21.2 x 15.2 x 26.3cm (212 x 152 x 263mm), Children's head with convex cheeks and mouthpiece of possibly a horn between the protruding lips. On the straight hair rising up a cap hanging in...
EditorialFloor tile, Red earthenware, inlaid with pipe clay, Square tile of red clay, stamped and inlaid with pipe clay in shape of double-headed. Right edge missing. Four circular pits on back., England, 14th century, ceramics, Decorative Arts, Floor tile.
EditorialVase, Jacques Sicard, French, 18651923, Glazed and lustered earthenware, Gray-white clay body, cast. Monumental elongated ovoid body with flaring rim; no foot. Decorated with full-length irises in full bloom with slightly whiplash leaves and stems that...
EditorialFigure of a dog, Emile Gall?, French, 1846 - 1904, Glazed earthenware, Bulldog sitting on haunches, decorated as if wearing light blue dressing gown, banded in red and embellished with predominantly red flowers, a few blue forget-me-nots and green foli...
EditorialVase, Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967, Matthew Andrew Daly, American, 1860 1937, earthenware, glaze, Red clay body, cast. Cylindrical body swelling at shoulder with slightly raised rim; no foot. Incised decoration of three upright peacock feath...