EditorialGilly Hibberd at work at the Poi Room in Auckland, New Zealand, on Nov. 16, 2022. The shop on Ponsonby Road focuses on New Zealand-made art objects and contemporary jewelry. (Ruth Mcdowall/The New York Times)
EditorialA horsewoman wearing a feathered hat is shown some fabrics by tradesmen opening wooden chests in the foreground on the left, while a group of country-people gather around a stove by a road on the right. Visitors admire the statue of St. Charles Borrome...
EditorialTitle Page, Profil de deux Venteaux de la porte Cochere (Profile of Two Venteaux of a Carriage Door), Livre de Portes Cocheres (Book of Carriage Doors), Fran?ois de Cuvilli?s the Elder, Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768, Nicolas Jean-Baptiste de Poi...
EditorialTwo Alternate project for Cornice., 1700?1780, Pen and dark brown ink, brush and brown, gray wash over lead point, with riled and compass construction. Framing outlines in pen and brown ink. Scale at bottom of design, in pen and brown ink over lead poi...
EditorialPleated fan, Painted parchment leaf, drilled and pierced bone sticks, mother-of pearl washer and metal bail at the rivet, Pleated fan with a painted parchment leaf showing a goldfinch with berries of either Bryony, a climbing vine whose berries are poi...
EditorialTitle Page, Profil de deux Venteaux de la porte Cochere (Profile of Two Venteaux of a Carriage Door), Livre de Portes Cocheres (Book of Carriage Doors), Fran?ois de Cuvilli?s the Elder, Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768, Nicolas Jean-Baptiste de Poi...
EditorialDesign for a Candle Bracket, Pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper, Vertical rectangle. Design for a candle bracket intended to be executed in partly gilded bronze. A central and two lateral arms springing from a cornucopia, with a ram head as poi...
EditorialDesign for a Candelabrum, Graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on white paper, Urn-shaped of mottled blue stone with gilt bronze mounting. About base of urn, rayed laurel leaves; at sides: two vertical volute handles with a satyr mask at the poi...
EditorialFrame, Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 17461809, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, lined, The scheme and decoration are variations of 1938-88-1912. Cornucopias crowned by flames crossing behind the escutcheon. The crossing poi...
Editorialbirchmeier glass, Anonymous, early 17th century, blown, General: 8.3 x 8.2cm 83 x 82mm, Base diameter: 4.7cm / Diameter chalice: 8.2cm, Birchmeier of light green colored glass. The birchmeier has a narrow, slightly sloping foot with folded edge and poi...
Editorialbirchmeier glass, Anonymous, early 17th century, blown, General: 8.3 x 8.2cm 83 x 82mm, Base diameter: 4.7cm / Diameter chalice: 8.2cm, Birchmeier of light green colored glass. The birchmeier has a narrow, slightly sloping foot with folded edge and poi...
EditorialA red-varnished oil lamp with a round body on a round base. The small filling hole is surrounded by concentric circles, the latter of which runs through the spout to the fire hole. The spout is wide and angled. The shoulder is decorated with relief poi...
EditorialPortrait of Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma, Duke of Parma. He has a command staff in his hand and is standing next to a pedestal on which his helmet and the gloves of his armor lie. On the pedestal are coat of arms. He is wearing a shield with a poi...
EditorialA horsewoman wearing a feathered hat is shown some fabrics by tradesmen opening wooden chests in the foreground on the left, while a group of country-people gather around a stove by a road on the right. Visitors admire the statue of St. Charles Borrome...
EditorialA horsewoman wearing a feathered hat is shown some fabrics by tradesmen opening wooden chests in the foreground on the left, while a group of country-people gather around a stove by a road on the right. Visitors admire the statue of St. Charles Borrome...
EditorialOne hundred pennies of siege of Maastricht by the French, emergency currency made from the silver of the St. Servaas and O.L. Vrouwe-chapter, Single-sided emergency currency. Front: four stamps one above the other, rectangular stamp with year, five-poi...
EditorialHandkerchief with bobbin lace with horns of abundance, On a square batiste centerpiece is a crowned W in plumetis embroidery. Walks around and a strip of lace with square meshes, on which a row of horns of abundance. On the even sides the horns are poi...
EditorialPortrait of Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma, Duke of Parma. He has a command staff in his hand and is standing next to a pedestal on which his helmet and the gloves of his armor lie. On the pedestal are coat of arms. He is wearing a shield with a poi...
EditorialPoi cessa colla sera ogni lavoro, 1792, etching on handmade paper (wove paper), folia: 38.4 x 47.3 cm |, Plate: 28.1 x 35.9 cm, in the plate u., l, ., designated and dated: C Reinhart inv et fec Romae 1792, u, ., M. inscribed: Poi cessa colla Sera ogni...
EditorialTitle page of 'Introduttione di Iason Denores...'. Introduttione di Iason Denores ridotta poi in alcune tavole sopra i tre libri della Rhetorica di Aristotile. Venetia : Appresso Paolo Megietti, 1578. Source: 11312.e.20, title page.
EditorialA horsewoman wearing a feathered hat is shown some fabrics by tradesmen opening wooden chests in the foreground on the left, while a group of country-people gather around a stove by a road on the right. Visitors admire the statue of St. Charles Borrome...
EditorialTwo Alternate project for Cornice., 1700?1780, Pen and dark brown ink, brush and brown, gray wash over lead point, with riled and compass construction. Framing outlines in pen and brown ink. Scale at bottom of design, in pen and brown ink over lead poi...
EditorialBeaker (Krautstrunk), late 15th or early 16th century, German, Free-blown glass with applied decoration, Overall: 5 11/16 x 4 1/2 in. (14.5 x 11.5 cm), Glass-Vessels, This ordinary drinking vessel is decorated with applied drops of glass drawn into poi...