Editorial'Woman at her morning toilette', Japan, Edo period, c1800. Hanging scroll painting of a married woman engaged in her morning toilette. Her gaze is caught by the beauty of a potted morning glory. Her straight back topped by the rounded marumage hairdo f...
EditorialA false-color image highlighted rougher brush strokes in the lower layers of paint, especially on the back wall and around the woman’s face. (National Gallery of Art via The New York Times)
Editorial4 elongated pieces of greyish layered stone. Fossil(?). One piece of stone is rougher and is a bit browner in color. Another piece has on one side a number of slits in width., Varia, stone, largest: L 6.4 cm, B 2 cm, smallest: L 3.8 cm, B max 0.9 cm., ...
Editorial3 separate fragments of a bottom fragment, composed of shards of rougher earthenware, of a fairly large pot. Black, gray-yellow in color. Old bonding and replenishment, which have released again, shards, earthenware, 26 x 27.5 x 11 cm (largest shard), ...
Editorial2 fragments of a marble tile (?). Both fragments have a smooth top and a rougher underside. Both fragments also have one flat side and several broken sides., Varia, stone, marble, largest: L 4.9 cm, W 3.3 cm, smallest: L 4.2 cm, W 2.1 cm, Saudi Arabia.
Editorialdish in the shape of a shell. At the bottom in the middle shallow foot. Total 25 rounded ripples. Thin bronze wall. On the smooth-polished exterior, dark green patina, here and there brown-red. On the rougher inside some limescale. Gaa, plate, bronze, ...
EditorialSmall double leather belt (part of a larger whole) with fittings. The upper strap and the top of the bottom strap are rougher in texture and also darker in color. The bottom has a smooth structure and the seams where the stitching has been visible are ...
EditorialShard of a wine bottle from the wreck of the East-Indian sailor 't Vliegend Hart, who died in 1735. Green glass fragment, part of a wine bottle. One side has a fine structure, the other is rougher, Dutch East India Company, 't Vliegend Hart (ship), 170...
Editorial'Woman at her morning toilette', Japan, Edo period, c1800. Hanging scroll painting of a married woman engaged in her morning toilette. Her gaze is caught by the beauty of a potted morning glory. Her straight back topped by the rounded marumage hairdo f...
Editorial'Woman at her morning toilette', Japan, Edo period, c1800. Hanging scroll painting of a married woman engaged in her morning toilette. Her gaze is caught by the beauty of a potted morning glory. Her straight back topped by the rounded marumage hairdo f...