EditorialSide?Chair, Maple, oak, leather, 37 1/8 ? 18 ? 15 3/16 in. (94.3 ? 45.7 ? 38.5?cm), Turkie work, serge, and leather chairs are recorded, often in sets of six, in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century estates of well-to-do New Englanders. Turkie wor...
EditorialAntonio Di Puccio Pisano (Pisanello), John VIII Paleologus (1392-1448), Emperor of Constantinople 1425-1448, ca. 1438, lead, 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm.), Pisanello, a trained painter, combined his interest in classical coins with portraiture to produce a medi...
EditorialCorallium rubrum, Print, Precious coral, or red coral, is the common name given to a genus of marine corals, Corallium. The distinguishing characteristic of precious corals is their durable and intensely colored red or pink-orange skeleton, which is us...
EditorialCorallium rubrum, Print, Precious coral, or red coral, is the common name given to a genus of marine corals, Corallium. The distinguishing characteristic of precious corals is their durable and intensely colored red or pink-orange skeleton, which is us...
EditorialCorallium rubrum, Print, Precious coral, or red coral, is the common name given to a genus of marine corals, Corallium. The distinguishing characteristic of precious corals is their durable and intensely colored red or pink-orange skeleton, which is us...
EditorialCorallium rubrum, Print, Precious coral, or red coral, is the common name given to a genus of marine corals, Corallium. The distinguishing characteristic of precious corals is their durable and intensely colored red or pink-orange skeleton, which is us...
EditorialCorallium rubrum, Print, Precious coral, or red coral, is the common name given to a genus of marine corals, Corallium. The distinguishing characteristic of precious corals is their durable and intensely colored red or pink-orange skeleton, which is us...
EditorialCorallium rubrum, Print, Precious coral, or red coral, is the common name given to a genus of marine corals, Corallium. The distinguishing characteristic of precious corals is their durable and intensely colored red or pink-orange skeleton, which is us...
EditorialBag made of durable two hearts lined with velvet, painted with flowers, surrounded by a border of cream-colored wrinkled sil, Anonymous, c. 1830.