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Editorial Water spout in the shape of a dragon, part of a fountain, Dragon, which is collapsed with its head thrown back and scaly neck resting on its large claws and spread, fleece-like wings., anonymous, Italy, c. 1500 - c. 1600, bronze (metal), h 50 cm ? w 65...
Editorial Tea caddy, The round tea caddy has a base with a raised edge, an upward widening body and a loose lid. Along the edge of the foot runs a crack. The decoration on the body is divided into horizontal bands. The middle band shows cannelures, the lower and...
Editorial Walnut table with drawers. With towing legs connected by foot rails on which three linked Tuscan pillars with four arches, walnut table with walnut with drawers. Two porches, built on trenches, flanked by stabbed harpies, support the oak frame, which h...
Editorial Water spout in the shape of a dragon, part of a fountain, Dragon, resting on its large claws and spread, fleece-like wings, collapsed with its head thrown back and scaly neck., anonymous, Italy, c. 1500 - c. 1600, bronze (metal), h 45 cm ? w 65 cm ? d ...
Editorial Coffin adorned with hermatlants on the corners, within the frames cartouches inside which cherubs, chest of oak. The front plate and the sides carry hermatlants, a hermcaryatide and frames on the corners, within which cartouche ornament fillings are ar...
Editorial Water spout in the shape of a dragon, part of a fountain, Dragon, which is squeezed with its head thrown back and scaly neck resting on its large claws and spread, fleece-like wings., anonymous, Italy, c. 1500 - c. 1600, bronze (metal), h 50 cm ? w 65 ...
Editorial Javanese kris, kris, blade in pamor technique with gold incrustation, consisting of scaly naga following the wave movement of blade. Ganja provided with floral and leaf motifs., anonymous, Java, 1800 - 1900, iron (metal), nickel (metal), gold (metal), ...
Editorial paneling with bedsteads, including sky, wall bulkhead, side panel and panels, paneling of oak, consisting of a box bed and wall partition with door. The bedstead has corner posts with a plinth on the base of the base, on the left a hermatlant, on the r...
Editorial Furniture, Walnut chair, first half of the 18th century, embroidered seat, wicker woven back. Legs connected to each other by scaly pieces. Rear uprights turned from above. Quite a lot of carving., anonymous, Northern Netherlands, 1700 - 1750, walnut (...
Editorial Rose water bottle of silver, driven with flower and leaf vines, Rose water bottle of silver on profiled foot with pear-shaped body and detachable elongated neck ending in a flower-shaped peak. There are gaps between the stamens of the flowers. The enti...
Editorial Gueridon with trunk consisting of scales, buds and flower buds, Gueridon of tropical wood. The gueridon stands on three S-shaped bent claw-and-ball legs. The multiple articulated trunk is made up of scaly conical parts, twisted and ribbed buds and flow...
Editorial paneling with bedstead, including sky, wall partition, side partition and panels, paneling of oak, consisting of a boxstead and wall partition with door. The bedstead has corner posts with a plinth on the base of the base, on the left a hermatlant, on ...
Editorial Bust of a Man, Probably Vincent Coster Portrait of Vincent Coster, The head slightly to the right with a mustache and pointed beard shows a wrinkled forehead. Over a shirt with a raised collar, he wears a jerkin with a raised, outwardly curling collar,...
Editorial Fragment white silk damask with pattern of scaly soil on which flower and leaf branches, Fragment white silk fabric, damask. The pattern has a scaly soil with fork-shaped twigs with flowers, leaves and buds. The fragment consists of two pieces sewn tog...
Editorial Silk velvet fragment, Velvet fragment. On orange-ribbed soil a drawing of scaly-laid fields, including three-leaf palmettes in green., Italy, c. 1500 - c. 1600, silk, velvet (fabric weave), cisel? velvet, h 14 cm ? w 30 cm h 2 cm ? w 2 cm.
Editorial Armchair in beech, upholstered. Above the conical fluted legs are square houses with rosettes on the front and diamond heads on the back. The rear-facing square armrest struts have fluted basements and are decorated with braid band and a standing acant...
Editorial Neptune, sitting on three seahorses and a triton, Three seahorses and a triton rise radially from the water, on their raised and entangled ponytails, carrying a shell, Neptune sits with a trident in its left hand and the right in front of it as if it w...
Editorial Tympanum from the Abbey Church of Egmond Tympanum from the abbey church of Egmond Tympanum or Egmond Abbey, While maintaining a flat, arched frame and a plinth, half have been saved: in the middle Peter with nimbus, holding a curve bar in the left hand...
Editorial Armchair with slung legs, upholstered in bronze-colored floral trim, Armchair in walnut, upholstered in bronze-colored floral trim. The furniture rests on slung legs that are connected by an equally slung H-shaped cross and front-center sport, a bead h...
Editorial Honoring the captaincy of Jan Berewout Jan Lanckhorst (1668?1742) Cup from Jan Berewout's captaincy, The round cup has a separate lid. The foot rests on a low, straight-walled base. It is made up of a constricted part with a widened lower edge, and a c...
Editorial Rose-water bottle of silver driven with flower and leaf vines, Rose-water bottle on profiled foot with pear-shaped body and detachable elongated neck ending in a flower-shaped peak. There are gaps between the stamens of the flowers. The entire bottle i...
Editorial Key, Key with oval eye consisting of two animal heads facing each other with scaly body that ends in tail fins that enclose a ball. At the bottom against the heads and on the shaft leaf decoration. The beard is S-shaped., France, c. 1600, iron (metal),...
Editorial Advance, corner posts and frieze of bedstead, The bedstead has cornerposts with a baseboard on the base, a hermlantlant on the left, a hermcaryatide on the right. The shaft rejuvenating downwards shows a scaly stitch. The figures appear half naked, one...
Editorial Fragment of multicolored embroidered silk, Fragment of multicolored silk fabric. The pattern has a gray ground on which wavy, scaly lace-like fields with recessed spaces with a multicolored flower branch., Netherlands, c. 1700 - c. 1730, silk, twill, h...
Editorial Paneling with bedsteads, including sky, wall partition, side partition and panels, Paneling made of oak, consisting of a box bed and wall partition with door. The bedstead has corner posts with a plinth on the base of the base, on the left a hermatlant...
Editorial Dish with a flowervase near a fence and panel decoration with landscapes, Porcelain dish, painted in underglaze blue. On the shelf in a double medallion a scaly flower vase with three flowers, large branches and leaves. The vase stands on a frame on a ...
Editorial Shaving basin Shaving basin, An earthenware shaving basin with a scaly outer edge, which has a recess in the form of a semicircle at the front. On the outer edge exuberant flower decorations with a dimple on the left (diameter 3-4 cm). In the tank a na...
Editorial Comb or diadem Hair comb of gilded copper with a decoration of mutually applied volumes above wine red, faceted grenades, Hair comb of gilt copper with a decoration of mutually applied volutes above which wine red, facet cut grenades. Model: the comb h...
Editorial Walking stick button, used as a cachet, The round, cast button rests on a slightly constricted band with a profiled upper edge, with which it was attached to the rot. Above a curved bottom edge, it widens to the curved top. The bottom edge is decorated...
Editorial Blue Macaw, Figure of painted porcelain. The figure represents a parrot (macaw) sitting on a stump with leaves. The parrot has a blue scaly neck and head and a white body. The tail and the ends of the wings are painted blue, yellow and white. Under the...
Editorial Two wine coolers and stands Wine cooler Wine cooler, painted with intersecting flower and leaf garlands, Wine cooler made of porcelain. The lower part of the wine cooler, which is thickened at the top, is painted in gold with scaly godrons, with chalic...
Editorial Paneling with bedsteads, including sky, wall partition, side panel and panels, Paneling in oak, consisting of a box bed and wall partition with door. The bedstead has corner posts with a plinth on the base of the base, on the left a hermatlant, on the ...
Editorial Console table Wall table made of gray marbled lime wood with marble top. Carved decoration with grape-picking putti, among others, on the front line, Wall table of gray marbled lime with marble top. The four angled volute-shaped legs are encased in car...
Editorial Machined lace collar with four inverted flower pots with fan flower, Natural colored machined lace collar: etching lace, imitation of needle lace. The wide collar forms almost two-thirds of a circle. Symmetrical pattern with four inverted flower pots w...
Editorial Whistle, Monster with a large open mouth with teeth, a wavy scaly body and a small tail. The mouth turns into a smooth, slightly flared cup. The tail turns into a short, tapered mouthpiece with a dented edge, Netherlands, anonymous, c. 1780 - c. 1800, ...
Editorial paneling with box bed, paneling made of oak, consisting of a box bed and wall partition with door. The bedstead has corner posts with a plinth on the base of the base, on the left a hermatlant, on the right a hermcaryatide. The shaft rejuvenating downw...
Editorial paneling with bedstead, including sky, wall partition, side partition and panels, paneling of oak, consisting of a boxstead and wall partition with door. The bedstead has corner posts with a plinth on the base of the base, on the left a hermatlant, on ...
Editorial Two wine coolers and stands Wine cooler Wine cooler, painted with flower and leaf garlands, Wine cooler made of porcelain. The lower part of the wine cooler, which is thickened at the top, is painted in gold with scaly godrons, with chalice between the...
Editorial paneling with bedstead, including sky, wall partition, side partition and panels, paneling of oak, consisting of a boxstead and partition with door. The bedstead has corner posts with a plinth on the base of the base, on the left a hermatlant, on the r...
Editorial Bobbin lace parasol, Parasol with deck of black bobbin lace and a white tableware base, on ivory stick carved in rough links, Parasol with deck of black bobbin lace, with a pattern of nine flowers above a garland, a scaly bottom edge. The surface is pl...
Editorial paneling with bedstead, including sky, wall partition, side partition and panels, paneling of oak, consisting of a boxstead and partition with door. The bedstead has corner posts with a plinth on the base of the base, on the left a hermatlant, on the r...
Editorial paneling with bedstead, including sky, wall partition, side partition and panels, paneling of oak, consisting of a boxstead and wall partition with door. The bedstead has corner posts with a plinth on the base of the base, on the left a hermatlant, on ...
Editorial A. Ceterach officinarum. B. Gymnogramma leptophylla. C. Blechnum spicant. The scale fern, Scaly spleenwort, The small-leaved gymnogram, The common hard fern, Bradbury, Henry Riley (1821-1887), (Illustrator), ferns of Great Britain and Ireland.
Editorial Ceramic plate with decor of flowers and leaves and scaly fields, Ceramic plate, painted in green, yellow, turquoise, purple, wine red, blue, pink and red with large flowers and leaves and scaly fields. Two hanging holes in the foot ring., N.V. Plateelb...
Editorial Band-tailed Dove or Pigeon - Cornus nuttalli, Scaly Dove (Patagioenas fasciata, Columba fasciata), Nuttall's Dogwood (Cornus nuttallii), Signed: J.J. Audubon, J.T. Bowen, lithograph, Pl. 279 (vol. 4), Audubon, John James (drawn); Bowen, J. T. (lith.), ...
Editorial Indicator variegatus, Print, The scaly-throated honeyguide (Indicator variegatus) is a species of bird in the family Indicatoridae., 1796-1808.
Editorial Manis tricuspis, Print, The tree pangolin (Phataginus tricuspis) is one of eight extant species of pangolins ("scaly anteaters"), and is native to equatorial Africa. Also known as the white-bellied pangolin or three-cusped pangolin, it is the most comm...
Editorial Tridacna squamosa, Print, Tridacna squamosa, known commonly as the fluted giant clam and scaly clam, is one of a number of large clam species native to the shallow coral reefs of the South Pacific and Indian Oceans. It is distinguished by the large, le...
Editorial Lepidosiren paradoxa, Print, The South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa) is the single species of lungfish found in swamps and slow-moving waters of the Amazon, Paraguay, and lower Paran? River basins in South America. Notable as an obligate air...
Editorial Pycnonotus squamatus, Print, The scaly-breasted bulbul (Pycnonotus squamatus) is a species of songbird in the bulbul family. It is found from the Malay Peninsula to Borneo. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests., 1700-1880.
Editorial Tridacna squamosa, Print, Tridacna squamosa, known commonly as the fluted giant clam and scaly clam, is one of a number of large clam species native to the shallow coral reefs of the South Pacific and Indian Oceans. It is distinguished by the large, le...
Editorial Plagusia squamosa, Print, Plagusia squamosa is a marine crab of the family Plagusiidae, formerly considered a subspecies of Plagusia depressa (as P. d. tuberculata). It is found in tropical Indo-Pacific oceans. P. squamosa's carapace is bumpy and quite...
Editorial Anomalurus beecrofti, Print, Beecroft's flying squirrel or Beecroft's scaly-tailed reptile (Anomalurus beecrofti) is a species of rodent in the family Anomaluridae. Some authorities consider it to be monotypic within the genus Anomalurops. It is found ...
Editorial The monkeys who went south, including Hanumān and A?gada, come across a huge asura (demon), blue and scaly, with horns and a mace. Thinking he is Rāva?a, A?gada knocks him to the ground and disembowels him, while the other monkeys watch from th...
Editorial Pinkmottle woodwax, Hygrophorus russula (Tricholoma russula), russet scaly tricholoma, Tricholoma vaccinum, and Tricholoma albobrunneum. Chromolithograph by Lassus after an illustration by A. Bessin from Leon Rolland's Guide to Mushrooms from France, S...
Editorial Glory bower, Clerodendrum japonicum (Scaly clerodendron, Clerodendron squamatum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Watts after a botanical illustration by Mills from Benjamin Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Henslow's The Botanist, London, 1836.
Editorial Gilt silver kylix.
Editorial Siren.
Editorial Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi.
Editorial Terracotta askos (flask with a handle over the top).
Editorial Inundated Ruins of a Monastery.
Editorial Earth Monster (Tlaltecuhtli).
Editorial Rooster Figure.
Editorial "Bahram Chubina Slays the Lion-Ape", Folio 715v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp.
Editorial Chinese Pangolin ‘Manis pentadactyla’ Also known as scaly anteater or trenggiling. Wellesley Albums. 1798 - 1805. Watercolour. Source: NHD 32/24.
Editorial Chinese Pangolin ‘Manis pentadactyla’ Also known as scaly anteater or trenggiling. Wellesley Albums. 1798 - 1805. Watercolour. Source: NHD 32/24.
Editorial Emblem 59; struggling figure. Notebook of William Blake. England; circa 1787-1818. [Whole folio] Emblem drawing of a struggling figure, using his arms to clutch his head, illustrating the 'perturbed Spirit' in 'Hamlet' 1.v.182. The emblem, inscribed 'E...
Editorial The monkeys who went south, including Hanumān and A?gada, come across a huge asura (demon), blue and scaly, with horns and a mace. Thinking he is Rāva?a, A?gada knocks him to the ground and disembowels him, while the other monkeys watch from th...
Editorial Hedgehog mushroom, Hydnum repandum, hydne sinue, and scaly hedgehog mushroom, Sarcodon imbricatus, Hydnum imbricatum, hydne ecailleux, edible.
Editorial Scaly breasted parrakeet, Psittacus squamosus.
Editorial Earth Monster (Tlaltecuhtli).
Editorial Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi.
Editorial Rooster Figure.
Editorial "Bahram Chubina Slays the Lion-Ape", Folio 715v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp.
Editorial Terracotta askos (flask with a handle over the top).
Editorial Inundated Ruins of a Monastery.
Editorial Gilt silver kylix.
Editorial Siren.
Editorial Spit Bracket.
Editorial Fragment of a Tapestry or Wall Hanging, ca. 1420?30, Made in Basel, Switzerland, Upper Rhenish, Tapestry weave: wool on linen, 33 7/16 x 29 1/2 in. (85 x 75 cm), Textiles-Tapestries, This tapestry fragment represents a fabulous lionlike beast with poin...
Editorial Burgonet all'Antica, ca. 1535?45, probably Milan, Italian, probably Milan, Steel, gold, silver, H. 10 13/16 (27.5 cm); W. 8 1/16 (20.5 cm); D. 11 5/8 in. (29.6 cm); Wt. 3 lb. 12 oz. (1709 g), Helmets, This helmet is formed as a dolphin-like sea monster...
Editorial Pinkmottle woodwax, Hygrophorus russula (Tricholoma russula), russet scaly tricholoma, Tricholoma vaccinum, and Tricholoma albobrunneum. Chromolithograph by Lassus after an illustration by A. Bessin from Leon Rolland's Guide to Mushrooms from France, S...
Editorial Glory bower, Clerodendrum japonicum (Scaly clerodendron, Clerodendron squamatum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Watts after a botanical illustration by Mills from Benjamin Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Henslow's The Botanist, London, 1836.
Editorial A. Ceterach officinarum. B. Gymnogramma leptophylla. C. Blechnum spicant. The scale fern, Scaly spleenwort, The small-leaved gymnogram, The common hard fern, Bradbury, Henry Riley (1821-1887), (Illustrator), ferns of Great Britain and Ireland.
Editorial Snipefish, Macroramphosus scolopax (Scaly centriscus, Centriscus scolopax). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1802.
Editorial Scale-throated hermit, Phaethornis eurynome (Scaly-backed hummingbird, Trochilus eurynomus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Hummingbirds Volume 2, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1833.
Editorial Mrs. Farrer's rhododendron, Rhododendron farrerae (Scaly azalea, Azalea squamata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards' Botanical Register, edited by John Lindley, London, Ridgeway...
Editorial Picus Squamatus, Scaly-bellied Woodpecker. Birds from the Himalaya Mountains, engraving 1831 by Elizabeth Gould and John Gould. John Gould was working as a taxidermist,he was known as the 'bird-stuffer', by the Zoological Society. Gould's fascination w...
Editorial Common scaly-foot, Pygopus lepidopodus (Scaly-footed lizard, Lacerta lepipodes). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London,...
Editorial Six-banded armadillo, Euphractus sexcinctus, and Indian pangolin, thick-tailed pangolin, or scaly anteater, Manis crassicaudata. Handcoloured engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel...
Editorial Scaly-breasted lorikeet, Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus (Spotted parrot, Psittacus matoni). Handcoloured engraving of a specimen in the Linnean Society Museum from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1829.
Editorial Narrow-leaved scaly fern, Pleopeltis angusta. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his own "Exotic Flora," Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823. Hooker (1785-1865) was an English botanist who...
Editorial Scaly-fern species, Pleopeltis macrocarpa (Sword-leaved scaly-fern, Pleopeltis ensifolia). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his own "Exotic Flora," Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823. H...
Editorial Scaly-breasted munia, Lonchura punctulata. (Spice bird, Munia punctulata, a var. nisoria, b var. topela) Chromolithograph by Brumby and Clarke after a painting by Frederick William Frohawk from Arthur Gardiner Butler's "Foreign Finches in Captivity," L...
Editorial Hieracium nitidum; Scaly-stalked Hawkweed.
Editorial Dingy flowered maxillaria, Maxillaria squalens.
Editorial Scaly polypore, Polyporus squamosus.
Editorial Scaly-breasted lorikeet, Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus.
Editorial Five-toed manis, Chinese pangolin, or scaly anteater, Manis pentadactyla. Endangered.
Editorial Hedgehog mushroom, Hydnum repandum, hydne sinue, and scaly hedgehog mushroom, Sarcodon imbricatus, Hydnum imbricatum, hydne ecailleux, edible.