EditorialWooden Spindles with Ceramic Whorls. Peru, Possibly central coast. Date: 1000-1476. Dimensions: 18.8 x 2.0 cm (7 1/2 x 13/16 in.). Wood and ceramic. Origin: Peru.
EditorialWooden Spindles with Ceramic Whorls. Peru, Possibly central coast. Date: 1000-1476. Dimensions: 18.7 x 1.7 cm (7 3/8 x 11/16 in.). Wood and ceramic. Origin: Peru.
EditorialSixteen-Pointed Star, Cut paper on wood frame, Magic lantern slide, optical toy. On black field, sixteen-pointed star outlined in green paper, with pierced rays clustered in groups of three, radiating from central motif of red whorls and white patera, ...
EditorialSketchbook Page: Sedum Sieboldti, Kenyon Cox, American, 18561919, Graphite on paper, Recto: Sketch of plant with round leaves in whorls of three around a stem., Verso: Several sketches of flowers., USA, 1874, albums (bound) & books, Sketchbook folio, S...
EditorialSidewall and border, Block-printed, handmade paper, Vertical rectangle. Design simulating a brocaded silk weave with stripes ofparallel white bars, of white dots and of pink lozenge forms between chevron band. Alternating with these small stripes, a br...
EditorialSidewall, Block-printed on handmade paper, Vertical rectangle. Staggered repeat of large whorls of foliage, or wreath, with pink leaf-forms at center., France, 182030, Wallcoverings, Sidewall.
EditorialArietites, Print, Arietites is a genus of massive, giant evolute, psiloceratacean ammonites in the family Arietitidae in which whorls are subquadrate and transversely ribbed and low keels in triplicate, separated by a pair of longitudinal grooves, run ...
EditorialWooden Spindles with Ceramic Whorls. Peru, Possibly central coast. Date: 1000-1476. Dimensions: 18.8 x 2.0 cm (7 1/2 x 13/16 in.). Wood and ceramic. Origin: Peru.
EditorialWooden Spindles with Ceramic Whorls. Peru, Possibly central coast. Date: 1000-1476. Dimensions: 18.7 x 1.7 cm (7 3/8 x 11/16 in.). Wood and ceramic. Origin: Peru.
EditorialWooden Spindles with Ceramic Whorls. Peru, Possibly central coast. Date: 1000-1476. Dimensions: 18.8 x 2.0 cm (7 1/2 x 13/16 in.). Wood and ceramic. Origin: Peru.
EditorialSpindle whorl, Early Helladic, ca. 3000?2000 B.C., Aegean, Terracotta, 1 11/16in. (4.3cm), Vases, Spindle whorls aided in the making of cloth for garments and bedding. They were placed in tombs, perhaps so that the deceased could continue to spin wool ...
EditorialTerracotta spindle whorls, Early Cypriot III?Middle Cypriot II, ca. 2000?1725 B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta; hand-made, H. 1 11/16 in. (4.3 cm), Spindle whorls aided in the making of cloth for garments and bedding. They were placed in tombs, perhaps so tha...
EditorialConical-hemispherical spindle-whorl with flat base, Early Cypriot III?Middle Cypriot II, ca. 2000?1725 B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta; hand-made, H. 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm), Spindle whorls aided in the making of cloth for garments and bedding. They were placed i...
EditorialTerracotta biconical spindle-whorl, Middle Cypriot, ca. 1900?1600 B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta; handmade, H. 1 5/16 in. (3.4 cm), Spindle whorls aided in the making of cloth for garments and bedding. They were placed in tombs, perhaps so that the deceased...
EditorialSpherical spindle-whorl, Early Cypriot III?Middle Cypriot I, ca. 2000?1800 B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta; hand-made, H. 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm), Spindle whorls aided in the making of cloth for garments and bedding. They were placed in tombs, perhaps so that the...
EditorialTerracotta spindle whorl, Early Cypriot III?Middle Cypriot II, ca. 2000?1725 B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta; hand-made, H. 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm), Spindle whorls aided in the making of cloth for garments and bedding. They were placed in tombs, perhaps so that...
EditorialTerracotta conical-hemispherical spindle-whorl with rounded base, Early Cypriot III?Middle Cypriot II, ca. 2000?1725 B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta; handmade, H. 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm), Spindle whorls aided in the making of cloth for garments and bedding. They ...
EditorialTerracotta conical-hemispherical spindle-whorl with flat base, Early Cypriot III?Middle Cypriot II, ca. 2000?1725 B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta; handmade, H. 1 5/16 in. (3.4 cm), Spindle whorls aided in the making of cloth for garments and bedding. They we...
EditorialSpindle-whorl, Late Cypriot ?, ca. 1600?1050 B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta; hand-made, H. 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm), Spindle whorls aided in the making of cloth for garments and bedding. They were placed in tombs, perhaps so that the deceased could continue to s...
EditorialTerracotta spindle whorl, Middle Cypriot, ca. 1900?1600 B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta; hand-made, H. 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm), Spindle whorls aided in the making of cloth for garments and bedding. They were placed in tombs, perhaps so that the deceased could con...
EditorialSpherical spindle-whorl with broad flat top and base, Early Cypriot III?Middle Cypriot II, ca. 2000?1725 B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta; hand-made, H. 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm), Spindle whorls aided in the making of cloth for garments and bedding. They were placed...
EditorialTerracotta biconical spindle-whorl, Possibly Late Cypriot I?II, ca. 1600?1200 B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta; handmade, H. 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm), Spindle whorls aided in the making of cloth for garments and bedding. They were placed in tombs, perhaps so that t...
EditorialSpherical spindle-whorl with broad top and base, Early Cypriot III?Middle Cypriot II, ca. 2000?1725 B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta; hand-made, H. 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm), Spindle whorls aided in the making of cloth for garments and bedding. They were placed in t...
EditorialTerracotta conical-hemispherical spindle-whorl, Early Cypriot III?Middle Cypriot II, ca. 2000?1725 B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta; handmade, H. 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm), Spindle whorls aided in the making of cloth for garments and bedding. They were placed in tom...
EditorialSmall terracotta biconical spindle-whorl, Late Cypriot ?, ca. 1600?1050 B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta; handmade, H. 7/8 in. (2.2 cm), Spindle whorls aided in the making of cloth for garments and bedding. They were placed in tombs, perhaps so that the decea...
EditorialSpindle with 2 whorls, New Kingdom, Ramesside, Dynasty 19?20, ca. 1295?1070 B.C., From Egypt, Memphite Region, Lisht North, Late New Kingdom Settlement, 1920?22, Wood, l. of spindle 6.6 cm (2 5/8 in);.
EditorialTerracotta biconical spindle-whorl, Possibly Late Cypriot I?II, ca. 1600?1200 B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta; handmade, H. 1 3/16 in. (3 cm), Spindle whorls aided in the making of cloth for garments and bedding. They were placed in tombs, perhaps so that th...
EditorialTerracotta conical-hemispherical spindle-whorl with flat base, Early Cypriot III?Middle Cypriot II, ca. 2000?1725 B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta; handmade, H. 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm), Spindle whorls aided in the making of cloth for garments and bedding. They wer...
EditorialVase with botanical panel, vase with whorls (lacets) and painted cupid panel, and vase with four cameo-style medallions. Chromolithograph by Gillot of an illustration by Edouard Garnier from The Soft Paste Porcelain of Sevres, Maison Quantin, Paris, 1891.