EditorialThailand: An orchestra of Thai children playing classical Thai music, led by three young girls playing the khim and accompanied by percussion instruments, in a street market in Phuket Town. The khim is a string instrument akin to a dulcimer or the Indian
EditorialWarriors of the Kongo with weapons and battle instruments (bow, arrow, drum and percussion instrument). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Antonio Sasso from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, It...
EditorialSoupplate with precious objects and flower sprays, Porcelain soup plate, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, turquoise, purple, black and gold. On the flat lucky symbols: a flower vase on a stool, rolls on a bench with stylized lotuses, a l...
EditorialSoupplate with precious objects and flower sprays, Porcelain soup plate, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, turquoise, purple, black and gold. On the flat lucky symbols: a flower vase on a stool, rolls on a bench with stylized lotuses, a l...
EditorialTools and weapons of the Camacan people of Bahia, Brazil. Bow 1, arrow 2,3, woven apron 4, bag 5, headdress with foliage 6, a gourd percussion instrument or kechieeh 7, and a bundle of dried leaves or herenehedioca 8. Handcoloured copperplate engraving...
EditorialCupids or genii playing music and games. Above, cupids dancing while playing a 10-string lyre and crotales, a bronze percussion instrument. Below, three cupids play a game of pulling a stake from the ground. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from ...
EditorialA bacchant surprised by a faun in a desolate mountain spot. At the faun's feet are his curved stick or pedum, seven-pipe flute or syrinx, and a Rhombus, a percussion instrument like a tambourine. At the bacchant's feet are a sacred staff or thyrsus dec...
EditorialA bacchant surprised by a faun in a desolate mountain spot. At the faun's feet are his curved stick or pedum, seven-pipe flute or syrinx, and a Rhombus, a percussion instrument like a tambourine. At the bacchant's feet are a sacred staff or thyrsus dec...
EditorialCupids or genii playing music and games. Above, cupids dancing while playing a 10-string lyre and crotales, a bronze percussion instrument. Below, three cupids play a game of pulling a stake from the ground. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from ...
EditorialAustralian aboriginal with a shield used as percussion instrument during a corroboree dance. Musician of New Holland. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature: The Asiatic Islands and New Holland, R. Ackermann, ...
EditorialChinese musical instruments, Qing Dynasty: iron Hien-pan 1, bronze vase 2, drum, wooden percussion instrument in the shape of a fish 4, and Bong-gui 5. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Ba...
EditorialSoupplate with precious objects and flower sprays, Porcelain soup plate, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, turquoise, purple, black and gold. On the flat lucky symbols: a flower vase on a stool, rolls on a bench with stylized lotuses, a l...
EditorialSaucer with taoist symbols, Porcelain dish with six times lobed edges, painted on the glaze in red and gold. On the plate of the dish a flower basket with mushrooms (lingzhi), surrounded by the eight Taoist symbols (gourd, flute, castanets, percussion ...
EditorialCup and saucer with taoist symbols, Porcelain cup and saucer with six lobed edges, painted on the glaze in red and gold. On the plate of the dish a flower basket with mushrooms (lingzhi), surrounded by the eight Taoist symbols (gourd, flute, castanets,...
EditorialPistol-gunpowder meter, Gunpowder test gun (force meter), percussion, with two iron arcs of which the upper arc is the measuring instrument. The bows are attached to an iron fork. Above the lock plate an iron rooster and below the lock plate an iron tr...
EditorialAuger with inscription: SEBASTIAEN VAN GEERSBEGE 1581, The cast round auger extends slightly upwards, has a high projecting profiled edge and a flared edge profiled foot. On the border in Latin majuscles the inscription SEBASTAEN VAN GEERSBEGE 1581 wit...
EditorialSoupplate with precious objects and flower sprays, Porcelain soup plate, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, turquoise, purple, black and gold. On the flat lucky symbols: a flower vase on a stool, rolls on a bench with stylized lotuses, a l...
EditorialCup with taoist symbols, Porcelain cup with six lobed edges, painted on the glaze in red and gold. A flower basket with mushrooms (lingzhi), surrounded by the eight Taoist symbols (gourd, flute, castanets, percussion instrument, lotus, fan, sword, frui...
EditorialSeated figure of Zhang GuoLao, one of the Eight Immortals, Porcelain image on hexagonal base, painted on biscuits in green, yellow, eggplant and black. It depicts the sitting Zhang GuoLao, in a robe of clouds. His attribute, a bamboo percussion instrum...
EditorialA bacchant surprised by a faun in a desolate mountain spot. At the faun's feet are his curved stick or pedum, seven-pipe flute or syrinx, and a Rhombus, a percussion instrument like a tambourine. At the bacchant's feet are a sacred staff or thyrsus dec...
EditorialCupids or genii playing music and games. Above, cupids dancing while playing a 10-string lyre and crotales, a bronze percussion instrument. Below, three cupids play a game of pulling a stake from the ground. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from ...
EditorialA bacchant surprised by a faun in a desolate mountain spot. At the faun's feet are his curved stick or pedum, seven-pipe flute or syrinx, and a Rhombus, a percussion instrument like a tambourine. At the bacchant's feet are a sacred staff or thyrsus dec...
EditorialCupids or genii playing music and games. Above, cupids dancing while playing a 10-string lyre and crotales, a bronze percussion instrument. Below, three cupids play a game of pulling a stake from the ground. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from ...
EditorialTools and weapons of the Camacan people of Bahia, Brazil. Bow 1, arrow 2,3, woven apron 4, bag 5, headdress with foliage 6, a gourd percussion instrument or kechieeh 7, and a bundle of dried leaves or herenehedioca 8. Handcoloured copperplate engraving...
EditorialWarriors of the Kongo with weapons and battle instruments (bow, arrow, drum and percussion instrument). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Antonio Sasso from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, It...
EditorialA bacchant surprised by a faun in a desolate mountain spot. At the faun's feet are his curved stick or pedum, seven-pipe flute or syrinx, and a Rhombus, a percussion instrument like a tambourine. At the bacchant's feet are a sacred staff or thyrsus dec...
EditorialCupids or genii playing music and games. Above, cupids dancing while playing a 10-string lyre and crotales, a bronze percussion instrument. Below, three cupids play a game of pulling a stake from the ground. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from ...