EditorialBrandy bowl of gilded silver with flower and leaf tendril decorations in Indian style, Brandy bowl of gold-plated silver with flower and leaf tendril decorations in Indian style. The wall of the bowl is divided into 8 planes with a paisley motif in eac...
EditorialDesign for an Earring, Pen and black ink, brush and gray watercolor on light green paper, Jewelry design for an earring. Usual design scheme with a disk above and three drops below. In the center is a basket with flower stems and a central blossom. Eac...
EditorialMiser's purse, Medium: silk, metal Technique: netting, Netted white silk ornamented evenly with gold beads in small cone pattern. Two hexagonal gold rings engraved with floral and scroll motifs, control a side opening. Long tassels of gold beads at eac...
EditorialIncense burner, Silvered brass, Platform resting on four ball feet; incurving corners with leaf ornaments. Gallery which is set back of flange on platform is pierced in leaf design with solid panels at corners. On the platform are two square blocks eac...
EditorialCeiling paper, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Standard Wall-Paper Company, Sandy Hill, New York, Machine-printed paper, Alternating large and small quatrefoil medallions contain foliate scrollwork and pearl details. Four floral swags radiate out from eac...
Editorialtable, Anonymous, between 1750 - 1792, copper, mahogany, General: 75.1 x 107.5 x 77cm (751 x 1075 x 770mm), Oval mahogany table with fluted legs. Under the table top is a drawer with a brass lock plate (now missing) with two handles on either side, eac...
Editorialtable, Anonymous, between 1750 - 1792, copper, mahogany, General: 75.1 x 107.5 x 77cm (751 x 1075 x 770mm), Oval mahogany table with fluted legs. Under the table top is a drawer with a brass lock plate (now missing) with two handles on either side, eac...
Editorialtable, Anonymous, between 1750 - 1792, copper, mahogany, General: 75.1 x 107.5 x 77cm (751 x 1075 x 770mm), Oval mahogany table with fluted legs. Under the table top is a drawer with a brass lock plate (now missing) with two handles on either side, eac...
EditorialAttic black-figure oinochoe, shape 2. Decoration of seated Heracles holding lyre and oinochoe and seated Athena holding helmet and spear. Attic black-figured oinocho?, form 2, depicting Herakles in the company of the goddess Athena. They are facing eac...
Editorialbook of death, book of breathing, Petamenope, A: Method of framing: glued on white paper and cardboard behind single glass, Above is in modern ink the number 36., B: Classification, 1. Number of columns: 3 columns, I) 12 lines, no rubrum, damage in eac...
EditorialA Purging draught for Extracting Diamonds from the Rich Mine of Bengall. 1788. Hastings is shown in the centre of this engraving, with two of his accusers, Burke and Fox, to the left, and two of his supporters, Thurlow and George III, to the right. Eac...
EditorialDeath of Elisabeth van Dam, Silver Medal, oval. Front: lying figure on a resting bed above the cartouche with inscription, above it two little angels with pennants and inscriptions. Reverse: canvas with inscription held up by skeleton with torch in eac...
EditorialBrandy bowl of gilded silver with flower and leaf tendril decorations in Indian style, Brandy bowl of gold-plated silver with flower and leaf tendril decorations in Indian style. The wall of the bowl is divided into 8 planes with a paisley motif in eac...
EditorialTerracotta lebes gamikos (round-bottomed bowl with handles and stand used in weddings), Classical, ca. 440?430 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H.: 16 5/8 in. (42.2 cm), Vases, Obverse, seated woman and attendants, Reverse, two women, At eac...
EditorialA scene on the coast. The charaters of the story are trying to observe the green ray. After numerous unsuccessful tries caused by clouds or distant boat sails hiding the sun, the phenomenon is eventually visible, but the characters, finding love in eac...
EditorialA Purging draught for Extracting Diamonds from the Rich Mine of Bengall. 1788. Hastings is shown in the centre of this engraving, with two of his accusers, Burke and Fox, to the left, and two of his supporters, Thurlow and George III, to the right. Eac...
Editorial[View Across the Egyptian Court; View through Egyptian Columns into Classical Sculpture Gallery; Side View of Egyptian Colonnade; Facade of the Hall of Columns], ca. 1859, Albumen silver print from glass negative, 7.9 x 8.1 cm (3 1/8 x 3 3/16 in.), eac...
EditorialTerracotta lebes gamikos (round-bottomed bowl with handles and stand used in weddings), Classical, ca. 440?430 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H.: 16 5/8 in. (42.2 cm), Vases, Obverse, seated woman and attendants, Reverse, two women, At eac...
EditorialFemale protome-mask, Cypro-Archaic II, ca. 600?480 B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta; mold-made and hand-made, H. 4 in. (10.2 cm), Terracottas, The protome-mask has a mold-made face. The flat neck and upper chest are handmade. There is a perforation behind eac...