EditorialTextile, Medium: cotton Technique: block printed on plain weave, Heavy cream-colored ground in a design with detached motifs of small flower clusters and seed pods. Red, blue, green (yellow over blue) with dark brown for outlines of stems and leaf vein...
EditorialGentlemen and lady playing cards in a parlour, while others dance in the next room. He says, You've hit a vein. I congratulate you Madame! He thinks, The devil take you! Handcoloured lithograph by the Gihaut brothers after an illustration by Swiss arti...
EditorialTim Bray, a former Amazon vice president and senior engineer, on his boat in Vancouver, Canada, July 10, 2020. (Alana Paterson/The New York Times)
EditorialVest, Medium: silk, indigo Technique: stencil-applied rice resist, indigo dyed (katazome) on plain weave, Woven silk vest with stencil-applied resist pattern of lanterns and flowering vines in indigo. Ground covered in delicate white lines, suggesting ...
EditorialTextile, Medium: cotton Technique: block printed on plain weave, Heavy cream-colored ground in a design with detached motifs of small flower clusters and seed pods. Red, blue, green (yellow over blue) with dark brown for outlines of stems and leaf vein...
EditorialLeaf-Shaped Dessert Dish, Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present, hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold, Modeled in the shape of an open sunflower and two leaves, with stem forming handle. Overglaze, polychrome bou...
EditorialCake tong, Charles Victor Gibert, French, Silver, Leaf with crawling caterpillar; vein skeleton of a leaf., ca. 1890, cutlery, Decorative Arts, Cake tong.
EditorialPendant in the Shape of a Ruler or?Lord, A..D.?200600, Jadeite, 9.98 ? 4.17 ? 1.73 cm (3 15/16 ? 1 5/8 ? 11/16?in.), This pendant in the shape of a standing male figure probably once belonged to a Maya noble. The craggy nose and specific details of the...
EditorialCarved stones, gem, intaglio, amulet, jasper, Color, brown with green vein, Shape, oval, Machining, edge cut back at back with respect to front, Method of making, modeling with large rounded drill, detailing with rounded wheel, grooves, 14.5 x 12 mm, D...
EditorialVz: scarab, scarab, faience, Color: blue-green and orange, Shape: scarab, Processing: the scarab is cut out at the boundary of a vein in the stone, Method: 8 x 12 mm, D. 7 mm, wt. 0.77 gr., Unknown.
EditorialVz: a bird in an agitated position, to the right, a snake up in the tree, they seem to fight., Gem, intaglio, ringstone, burnt agate (or carnelian), Color: red with orange vein, Shape: oval, Machined: edge cut at the front with respect to the rear, Met...
EditorialHenri Rousseau: Unpleasant Surprise (Mauvaise surprise), Henri Rousseau, 1901, Oil on canvas, Self-taught painter Henri Rousseau returned frequently to the theme of conflict in the natural world. His large-scale 'jungle paintings' are rife with violent...
EditorialLaura Liffiton uses an ultrasound machine to find the vein of patient in the emergency room of Bellin Hospital in Green Bay, Wis., on Nov. 23, 2020. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)