EditorialBird-like figure on a three-wheel wagon drawn by birds. From Dupljaja, location Grad, Serbia Terracotta (15th BCE) Statue, heigth 13.5 cm; wagon 25.6 x 16 cm Inv. Br. 4533 See also 07-02-02 / 21 and 06-02-03 / 66.
EditorialTiraz fragment, Medium: linen, silk Technique: plain weave, slit tapestry, Tiraz fragment of natural-colored linen with a two-centimeter wide band of multicolored silk tapestry medallions with bird-like forms. Fragment of selvedge on one side. Possibly...
EditorialBorder, Medium: linen Technique: bobbin lace, discontinuous tape, Border fragment with tabs comprised of bird-like shapes., Italy, late 16th century, lace, Border.
EditorialFragment, Medium: wool, cotton Technique: embroidery on plain weave foundation; Weft-faced plain weave: slit tapestry. Warp-faced plain weave embroidered in chain stitch., Tapestry woven strip patterned by stepped triangles in red and yellow to which t...
EditorialQuilt, Medium: linen, cotton Technique: trapunto (two layers of plain weave, pattern outlined in back stitch, pattern shapes stuffed with unspun cotton or heavy cotton cord, background areas textured by running stitches which also hold two layers toget...
EditorialArchaeopteryx, sometimes referred to by its German name, Urvogel. Genus of bird-like dinosaurs that is transitional between non-avian feathered dinosaurs and modern birds. Jurassic period. 150 -145 million years ago. Fossil from Eichstatt, Germany. Nat...
EditorialHorizontal Panel Design with a Young Man and a Fantastical Creature Interspersed between Acanthus Rinceaux, 17th century (first half), Pen and brown ink over leadpoint., Sheet: 7 1/4 x 10 5/16 in. (18.4 x 26.2 cm), Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 17th ce...
EditorialDisegni Varii di Polifilo Zancarli, 1628 before, Etching, Plate: 9 5/16 x 5 7/8 in. (23.7 x 14.9 cm), Polifilo Giancarli (active in Venice ca. 1600?1625), Odoardo Fialetti (Italian, Bologna 1573?1637/38 Venice), Vertical panel design with an acanthus r...
EditorialCover, decorated on the narrow field with oval medallion-like shapes that are partly filled with a tree and a bird-like animal, perhaps for a camel. The wide narrow field is decorated with oval medallion-like forms, so-called ore guls, partly filled wi...
EditorialChalice with six-lobed chalice with lattimo threads, Flat base with folded edge. Hollow, baluster-shaped trunk, blown into shape with two bird-like creatures beneath a grunt. Six-lobed chalice, decorated at the bottom with a band of lattimo threads, ma...
EditorialMedallion cover covered with floral motifs, a Herati pattern, on blue ground. Concentric red diamond with floral pattern and bird-like ornaments. Triple edge, oriental carpet, kilim technique medallion rug. The blue field is covered with floral motifs,...
EditorialTerracotta kylix (drinking cup), Archaic, ca. 510?500 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 2 15/16 in. (7.5 cm), Vases, Interior, maenad with bird. Like the cup by the Kiss Painter, this work was shaved down in antiquity. The iconography is i...
EditorialPossibly Greek: Geometric Amphora, Possibly Greek, Possibly 8th century B.C., Ceramic, On the neck of this storage jar, known as an amphora, a grazing horse arches its neck over a bird-like creature. The linear and geometric motifs covering the rest of...
EditorialSitta pusilla, Print, The brown-headed nuthatch (Sitta pusilla) is a small songbird found in pine forests throughout the Southeastern United States. Genetic analyses indicated low differentiation between northern and southern populations in Florida. A ...
EditorialThe little bird from Benguela on the coast of Africa, like the Wax Bill. A lesser bird like the Wax Bill from the Brazils ... Nouvelles illustrations de zoologie, contenant cinquante planches enlumine?es d'oiseaux curieux ... et quelques de quadrupe?...
EditorialPsalm 81; grotesques. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] End of Psalm 80. Psalm 81 beginning with decorated initial 'D'. Border decoration with three grotesques. In the outer margin, one with a male hooded peasant's...
EditorialHorizontal Panel Design with a Young Man and a Fantastical Creature Interspersed between Acanthus Rinceaux, 17th century (first half), Pen and brown ink over leadpoint., Sheet: 7 1/4 x 10 5/16 in. (18.4 x 26.2 cm), Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 17th ce...
EditorialDisegni Varii di Polifilo Zancarli, 1628 before, Etching, Plate: 9 5/16 x 5 7/8 in. (23.7 x 14.9 cm), Polifilo Giancarli (active in Venice ca. 1600?1625), Odoardo Fialetti (Italian, Bologna 1573?1637/38 Venice), Vertical panel design with an acanthus r...
EditorialTerracotta rattle (?), Late Cypriot IB, 1600?1450 B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta; White painted ware, H. 3 7/8 in. (9.9 cm), Vases, Handle, bird-like face and bands of black paint.
EditorialTerracotta kylix (drinking cup), Archaic, ca. 510?500 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 2 15/16 in. (7.5 cm), Vases, Interior, maenad with bird. Like the cup by the Kiss Painter, this work was shaved down in antiquity. The iconography is i...
EditorialMan's head, schematic, cone-shaped with big eyes and nose and probably a beard. Red pottery. Astarte head, bird-like. Yellow pottery. From Negev. (800-700 BCE) Israelite Period, Iron Age II. Height both 6 cm-Inv. H 464 and H 465.
EditorialBird-like figure on a three-wheel wagon drawn by birds. From Dupljaja, location Grad, Serbia Terracotta (15th BCE) Statue, heigth 13.5 cm; wagon 25.6 x 16 cm Inv. Br. 4533 See also 07-02-02 / 21 and 06-02-03 / 66.
EditorialPainted bowl, Sialk III period, around 4.000 BCE. Abstract ornaments and a human figure with bird-like head. The Sialk period is contemporry with th Ubaid and Uruk cultures of mesopotamia to the west. Excavated by E. Herzfield at Tall-i Bakun, southern...