EditorialFragment, Medium: wool Technique: complementary warps, Reversible fabric, pattern of stylized pumas in rows. Warp-patterned in four bands of two colors each which alternate as the pattern demands: pink and red, green and dark blue, red and yellow, ligh...
EditorialCup and saucer, part of a service for August the Strong Saucer, part of a service from August the Strong Saucer, multi-colored painted with chinoiseries, Saucer made of painted porcelain. The dish has a four-pass with golden edges, inside which a singl...
EditorialFable of the bull and the mouse, A mouse and a bull face each other. The fable describes how a mouse bites a bull in its paw and then hides itself in its hole. The moral of the story teaches that every ruler can be hindered by the cleverness of a singl...
EditorialVisigothic laws. LIBER JUDICORUM or Visigothic laws; 13th cent. HOLKHAM HALL MSS. Vol. XV (formerly Holkham MS. 212). LIBER JUDICORUM or Visigothic laws; 13th cent. Copy of the 'Vulgate' version of the code, first promulgated by Reccesswinth as a singl...
EditorialCup with cover (from a tea service), ca. 1775, Russian, St. Petersburg, Hard-paste porcelain, Height: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm), Ceramics-Porcelain, Similar porcelain services?either the so-called t?te-?-t?te (for two persons) or the egoist type (for a singl...
Editorial'Sultan Bayazid before Timur', Folio from an Akbarnama (History of Akbar), ca. 1600, Made in present-day Pakistan, probably Lahore, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, Image: H.13 3/8 in. (34 cm), Codices, Painting by Dharam Das, This is a singl...