EditorialPoem and sketch by William Blake. Notebook of William Blake. England; circa 1787-1818. [Whole folio] Sketch of God with compasses 'Creation begun', relating to Milton's 'Paradise Lost'. Autograph draft of Blake's poem 'Lines written on hearing the surr...
EditorialA view across Queen Square with houses at either side and landscape beyond. Well-dressed figures in the foreground and a beggar boy walking beside a flower seller with a dog, horses and a wagon crossing the wide cobbled area on the right, a garden surr...
EditorialA view across Queen Square with houses at either side and landscape beyond. Well-dressed figures in the foreground and a beggar boy walking beside a flower seller with a dog, horses and a wagon crossing the wide cobbled area on the right, a garden surr...
EditorialButton, Wedgwood, English, established 1759, stoneware (jasper), steel, Circular steel frame decorated with twenty-four faceted steel beads, surr- ounding blue and white stoneware plaque. Plaque depicts two standing male nudes, a goat, and a seated fem...
EditorialDesign for an Ornament Panel, Juste-Aur?le Meissonnier, French, b. Italy, 16951750, Pen and brown and black ink, black chalk, brush and yellow, pale green, gray, and brown washes on white laid paper, Within a rocaille cartouche frame is a sunburst surr...
EditorialSidewall, Block-printed paper, flocked, glazed, Vertical rectangle. Drop-repeating design of cartouches with yellow field enclosing, alternately, figure of a woman on a swing and figure of a man with a pole-axe. Cartouche enclosed with scrolls and surr...
EditorialSidewall, Ithaca Wall-Paper Mills, Ithaca Wall-Paper Mills, inc. 1900-1907, Machine-printed paper, liquid mica, All-over floral pattern. Very dense imagery. Single flower, or pair of buds, each containing a few leaves. Shadow effect of mica leaves surr...
EditorialPomander, silver, gold, Spherical body opening into six segments hinged at base about a central hexagonal pillar and held in place, when closed, by circular convex cap screwed into pillar at top; pierced finial with loose ring; at base, small ball surr...
EditorialObverse: Bust of Phraates IV, left, with beard, long curly hair, diadem, wart on forehead, dressed, torc with griffin. Reverse: Crowned frost, right, opposite standing figure, left, woman, with object in right hand, presenting to a crowned figure. Surr...
EditorialA black-nested, partially red-burned oil lamp with a round body on a round low pedestal, in which a bulge surrounded by a relief edge is fitted. The long, rounded spout is decorated with a human figure. The flat mirror with a small filling hole is surr...
EditorialCartel clock, Cartel pendulum of gilt bronze representing: Time conquers Love. Above the round dial with low relief and enamelled number plates, on a cloud, is the winged bent figure of Time with scythe, beneath it sits Cupido on a large C-volute, surr...
EditorialA view across Queen Square with houses at either side and landscape beyond. Well-dressed figures in the foreground and a beggar boy walking beside a flower seller with a dog, horses and a wagon crossing the wide cobbled area on the right, a garden surr...
EditorialPlate with an allegory on the Dutch East India Company, Porcelain plate with lobed wall, painted on the glaze in pink (and camaieu) and gold. On the shelf a group of people: a woman with a flag bearing the initials of the Dutch East India Company, surr...
EditorialCartel clock, Cartel pendulum of gilt bronze representing: Time conquers Love. Above the round dial with low relief and enamelled number plates, on a cloud, is the winged bent figure of Time with scythe, beneath it sits Cupido on a large C-volute, surr...
EditorialMemorial plate for the one-year-old Princess Juliana, Memorial plate made of earthenware, made on the occasion of the first birthday of Princess Juliana, with a printed decor in yellow and manganese. In the middle the letter I, stabbed by a crown, surr...
EditorialTerracotta krater, Geometric, ca. 725 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta, H. 51 3/8 in. (130.5 cm), Vases, Like its counterpart, this krater served as a funerary monument and shows the same primary subjects, the prothesis?or laying out of the deceased surr...
EditorialConfrerie of the Noble Arch in Middelburg, Copper Medal. Front: helmeted coat of arms surrounded by decorative motif above illegible figure. Reverse: weapon trestle consisting of quiver with hanging tassel, a bowed and rolled bow and loose arrows, surr...
EditorialThe 'description of the journey of Friedrich V', relates the journey of Friedrich V, king of Bohemia, and his entourage to London; the celebration of this marriage to Princess Elizabeth Stuart; the journey of both back to Heidelberg and the events surr...
EditorialA view across Queen Square with houses at either side and landscape beyond. Well-dressed figures in the foreground and a beggar boy walking beside a flower seller with a dog, horses and a wagon crossing the wide cobbled area on the right, a garden surr...
EditorialPoem and sketch by William Blake. Notebook of William Blake. England; circa 1787-1818. [Whole folio] Sketch of God with compasses 'Creation begun', relating to Milton's 'Paradise Lost'. Autograph draft of Blake's poem 'Lines written on hearing the surr...
EditorialTerracotta krater, Geometric, ca. 725 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta, H. 51 3/8 in. (130.5 cm), Vases, Like its counterpart, this krater served as a funerary monument and shows the same primary subjects, the prothesis?or laying out of the deceased surr...