Editorial" Palace Ware" jar, Neo-Assyrian, from Ninveh, northern Iraq, 700-612 BCE. " Palace Ware" is very thin and delicate, with flared rims and dimples on the body. Potters made the dimples by pressing with their fingers. Finger marks are...
EditorialBowl, Glass, Glass with straight, slightly flared sides with two small spouts on opposite sides of rim; engraved decoration with scalloped motif at the top, alternating with hanging asterisks; lower section with vertical consecutive depressions., Engla...
EditorialBowl, Glass, Glass with straight, slightly flared sides with two small spouts on opposite sides of rim; engraved decoration with scalloped motif at the top, alternating with hanging asterisks; lower section with vertical consecutive depressions., Engla...
EditorialVase, Favrile glass, Iridescent blue, purple and green glass. Free-blown ovoid shape with flattened shoulders. Short neck, about one third diameter of body, flares slightly. Body decorated in upper half with bands of five rosettes composed of five appl...
EditorialBox and cover, lacquered wood, Cylindrical box with cover, made of a segment of a bamboo stem. Ferns in gold 'hira-makiye' lacquer on ground of 'shunkei-nuri' (reddish-brown) lacquer. The depressions in top and underneath are due to formation of the no...
EditorialDish, Lead-glazed earthenware, Oval dish with curving sides, on oval molded foot. In center, oval depressions with four circular depressions tangent at mid-point of sides and ends. Edge of dish and depressions are outlined by raised patterned bands of ...
EditorialLying panther, tuff stone, Total: Height: 48 cm; Width: 58 cm; Depth: 20 cm, funeral monument, grave equipment, early archaic, The panther is especially rare among the preserved early animal sculptures. He is shown lying down, his head turned to the le...
EditorialVase with incised plant decoration, Stoneware, glazed, celadon, Total: Height: 21.8 cm; Diameter: 10.6 cm; Diameter: 7 cm (foot); Weight: 640 g, Ceramics, Ornamental objects, Plant ornaments, Northern Song Dynasty, The vase represents a famous type of ...
EditorialCandlestick, bronze, gold, silver, inlaid, bronze with gold and silver inlays, Total: Height: 25,30 cm; Diameter: 21,20 cm, ornaments, birds, Based on the precious metal utensils of the Sassanids, a variety of outstanding bronze works were created in P...
Editoriallarge fragment of an iron swordkit with narrow tongue and odd cuts. The transition between blade and tongue and the angle of the blade around it. The blade shows longitudinal conduction, because two broad depressions have been applied next to the middl...
EditorialAn image provided by NASA shows a visualization, using data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, of the Shackleton crater at the moon’s south pole. (NASA Scientific Visualization Studio via The New York Times)
EditorialCooker with depressions, Grooves and recesses in the tarpaulin keep the heavier goldish back, woodcut, p. 260, (Liber octavus), Manuel, Hans Rudolf (graveur sur bois), 1556, Georgius Agricola: De re metallica libri XII: quibus officia, instrumenta, mac...
EditorialLeibrock, Chromolithography, Leibrock with cellular depressions, signature: color print by Henry & Cohen, plate II, Henry & Cohen (imp.), 1859, Franz Bock: Geschichte der liturgischen Gew?nder des Mittelalters oder Entstehung und Entwicklung der kirchl...
EditorialTerracotta lamp, Late Antique or Early Byzantine, 5th?6th century A.D., Roman, Cypriot, Terracotta, Overall: 1 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (3.8 x 8.9 cm), Terracottas, Unpierced handle. On discus, radiating linear depressions decorated with herring-bone patterns, ...
EditorialPlate or palette or whetstone, Classical ?, 4th century B.C.?, Cypriot, Stone, H.: 1/4 x 4 5/8 x 2 1/4 in. (0.6 x 11.7 x 5.7 cm), Cesnola Inscriptions, The edges of the bottom are beveled. On the top are two long shallow, polished depressions as if to ...
EditorialInlay: male torso, Early Dynastic IIIa, ca. 2600?2500 B.C., Mesopotamia, Nippur, Sumerian, Shell, 2.17 x 3.23 in. (5.51 x 8.2 cm), Shell-Ornaments, This plaque is cut from a piece of pearly shell in the shape of a man?s upper torso and arms. He clasps ...
Editorial" Palace Ware" jar, Neo-Assyrian, from Ninveh, northern Iraq, 700-612 BCE. " Palace Ware" is very thin and delicate, with flared rims and dimples on the body. Potters made the dimples by pressing with their fingers. Finger marks are...