EditorialChinese Portrait Painter, Edo period (1615?1868), 18th century, Japan, Two-panel folding screen; ink, color, and gold on paper, 40 x 49 1/4 in. (101.6 x 125.1 cm), Screens, Miwa Zaiei (died 1789), A Chinese painter dressed in the style of the Tang dyna...
EditorialPart of cartonnage from mummy depicting a falcon wearing a sun disk, New Kingdom, Ramesside or later, Dyna 19-20 or later, ca. 12951070 B.C. or later, From Egypt, Memphite Region, Lisht North, Cartonnage, wood, stucco, paint, h. 21 cm (8 1/4 in); w. 32...
EditorialFolio f 66v. Codex Madrid I (Ms. 8937) "Treaty of statics and mechanics", 192 folios with 384 pages. Internal format: 215 x 145 mm. CRAFTS. APPLIED MECHANICS (COMPONENTS). APPLIED MECHANICS (MACHINES AND WITS). PRINCIPLES OF MECHANICS, CINEMATICS, DYNA...
EditorialSaucer-dish with a red glaze, Porcelain dish covered with a monochrome red glaze. The border is white. White glazed inside the foot ring, with the six-character seal mark of emperor Qianlong. Monochromes., anonymous, China, c. 1700 - c. 1799, Qing-dyna...
EditorialFigure of a bird and a lidded pot Covered jar with a three-colored glaze, Pot jar with a spherical body covered with a green, brown and cream-colored glaze. The lid with brown and green spots. Sancai, Tang., anonymous, China, c. 618 - c. 906, Tang-dyna...
EditorialIncense burner with fluted sides and three legs, Incense burner of stoneware on three short legs and with a ribbed wall, covered with a light green-gray crackled glaze. Celadon., anonymous, China, c. 1300 - c. 1400, Yuan-dynasty (1279-1368) / Ming-dyna...
EditorialBusts of ancestors. First, polychromed limestone bust, from Thebes. At background, limestone bust of unknown origin. Both dated from 1300-1150 BC. On the right, and the smaller, wooden bust dated 1550-1070 BC, also of unknown origin. 19th and 20th Dyna...
EditorialFolio f 66v. Codex Madrid I (Ms. 8937) "Treaty of statics and mechanics", 192 folios with 384 pages. Internal format: 215 x 145 mm. CRAFTS. APPLIED MECHANICS (COMPONENTS). APPLIED MECHANICS (MACHINES AND WITS). PRINCIPLES OF MECHANICS, CINEMATICS, DYNA...
EditorialOutside the walls. Manzhou shilu. Shenyang, 1630. A facsimile of the 1781 edition of the Manzhou shilu, illustrated description of the life of Nurhaci (1559-1626), whose descendants completed the conquest of China and the establishment of the Qing dyna...
EditorialSir John Floyd on Horseback, ca. 1800?1814, Watercolor, sheet: 7 3/8 x 6 1/4 in. (18.8 x 15.8 cm), Drawings, Richard Westall (British, Reepham, Norfolk 1765?1836 London), Westall here uses watercolor to combine details of uniform and visage with a dyna...
EditorialChinese Portrait Painter, Edo period (1615?1868), 18th century, Japan, Two-panel folding screen; ink, color, and gold on paper, 40 x 49 1/4 in. (101.6 x 125.1 cm), Screens, Miwa Zaiei (died 1789), A Chinese painter dressed in the style of the Tang dyna...
EditorialBusts of ancestors. First, polychromed limestone bust, from Thebes. At background, limestone bust of unknown origin. Both dated from 1300-1150 BC. On the right, and the smaller, wooden bust dated 1550-1070 BC, also of unknown origin. 19th and 20th Dyna...