EditorialIcon of Saint George, Byzantine, from the village of Pskov, Russia. The panel was used as the shutter of a barn window. Overpainted several times, the 14th century icon was finally uncovered by museum custodians. Saint George on a black horse is rare a...
EditorialSidewall, Machine-printed and hand painted, Pattern in two closely related shades of greenish-blue. Overall configuration of continuous diamond shapes, with crosshatching and dots in fill areas bordering diamonds. Within diamonds scallop-edged shapes w...
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk; powdered gold paint and black lacquer Technique: stamped or stenciled; painted on plain weave, Five vertical strips pasted together on paper backing; fine thin silk cloth (with each two warps pushed close together, then space, t...
EditorialVase, hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold, Porcelain white body with frit, glazed and gilded. (a) Tall ornate vase in two parts. Base of outspreading scroll-work narrowing to short slender stem. Fastened by a metal bolt to ovate body which swel...
EditorialPoint Bottle of Lajvardina?Ware, ca.?1300, Pottery, with lapis glaze overpainted in white and gold, 11 1/4 in. (28.6?cm), Iranian/Persian,?Islamic, Ilkhanid period (1256 -?1353), Containers -?Ceramics.
EditorialAfter a model by John Bacon the Elder, Faith, British, Lambeth, London, After a model by John Bacon the Elder (British, London 17401799 London), Coade Manufacture, Lambeth, London, 1791, British, Lambeth, London, Coade stone, overpainted, Height: 52 5/...
EditorialMiniature of the Damsel of Hungerford with Arthur and Guinevere, with an illuminated initial overpainted with the arms of Bohun, and partial bar borders containing a woman playing a drum and a man playing with a dog. Lancelot du Lac. England, S. (Plesh...
EditorialArmorial page, decorated with the golden roots, the personal badge of the Duke of Bedford, adopted by him to reflect the rebus of Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince; and the yew branch, the badge of the Duchess of Bedford. The two shields of arms, o...
EditorialIcon of Saint George, Byzantine, from the village of Pskov, Russia. The panel was used as the shutter of a barn window. Overpainted several times, the 14th century icon was finally uncovered by museum custodians. Saint George on a black horse is rare a...
EditorialBlack-glazed drinking vessel with seated hunter, Etruscan, c300-c280 BC. This wide drinking-cup is decorated with the scene of a hunter at rest, seated with his two spears and accompanied by his dog. It may perhaps be Ganymede. This style of decoration...
EditorialFlight into Egypt. S. Netherlands or N.E. France; 1475-1499. (Detached cutting) The Flight into Egypt; with architectural borders overpainted in 16th century Originally published/produced in S. Netherlands or N.E. France; 1475-1499. . Source: Add. 711...
EditorialMiniature of the Damsel of Hungerford with Arthur and Guinevere, with an illuminated initial overpainted with the arms of Bohun, and partial bar borders containing a woman playing a drum and a man playing with a dog. Lancelot du Lac. England, S. (Plesh...
EditorialHistoriated initial 'A'(more) of a kneeling lover presenting a book to a lady, identified in the text as Mirabel Zucharia, at the beginning of a series of sonnets. In the lower margin, the Zucharia's monogram 'MZ' to the right of a shield overpainted, ...
EditorialArmorial page, decorated with the golden roots, the personal badge of the Duke of Bedford, adopted by him to reflect the rebus of Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince; and the yew branch, the badge of the Duchess of Bedford. The two shields of arms, o...
EditorialBlack-glazed drinking vessel with seated hunter, Etruscan, c300-c280 BC. This wide drinking-cup is decorated with the scene of a hunter at rest, seated with his two spears and accompanied by his dog. It may perhaps be Ganymede. This style of decoration...
EditorialThe Reverend Dr. John Lloyd, Curate of St. Mildred's Church, Broad Street John Lloyd, Curate of St. Mildred's Broad Street Dr. John Lloyd Inscribed in brown paint, lower left: "John Lloyd D. D. Atatis. Suit. 25. 1738" Signed in brown paint, lower right...
EditorialIcon of Saint George, Byzantine, from the village of Pskov, Russia. The panel was used as the shutter of a barn window. Overpainted several times, the 14th century icon was finally uncovered by museum custodians. Saint George on a black horse is rare a...
EditorialBlack-glazed drinking vessel with seated hunter, Etruscan, c300-c280 BC. This wide drinking-cup is decorated with the scene of a hunter at rest, seated with his two spears and accompanied by his dog. It may perhaps be Ganymede. This style of decoration...
EditorialIslamic dish stamped with a rhyming couplet in Kufic script from the Umayyad poet Muhammad Bashir ibn al Khariji: " Do not abandon hope, long though the quest may be... " The background around the inscription has been stamped in raised dots, ...