EditorialLantern Slide - Spirit Huts, Life & Work of Dr David Livingstone, circa 1900, Lantern Slide depicting spirit huts in an African village. It is part of an incomplete set of 40 slides, two are missing, illustrating highlights from Livingstone's life and ...
EditorialHand guard, Round tsuba with relief (hikone-bori) and gold nunome-zogan Yoshitsune and Benkei in a boat attacked by the spirit of Tomomori, signed 'goshi hikone ju soheishi soten'., Kitagawa Soten, Japan, 1675 - 1700, Edo-period (1600-1868), iron (meta...
EditorialPersonification of Divine Wisdom Numismata virorum illustrium ex Barbadica gente (series title), A console with the female personification of Divine Wisdom. The woman is kneeling on a square stone. She is wearing a breast piece and a helmet with a roos...
EditorialThe Baptism of Christ The baptism of Christ in the Jordaan, Round stained glass with representation of the Baptism of Christ. Christ, wearing a loincloth, stands in the waters of the Jordan halfway to his knees. John kneels on the shore, as a sign of h...
EditorialHand guard, Mokko-shaped tsuba with raised edge. Embossed on the front Shoki who has caught a devil (oni) and on the back an oni in a willow tree, details inlaid in gold, engraved signature 'Natsuo' with seal 'koi' (in the spirit of the old, a l'ancien...
EditorialSaucer-dish with a portrait of theologist Willem Deurhof, Porcelain dish, painted in enamel colors, black and gold. On the shelf an oval medallion with a gold border in which the portrait of Willem Deurhoff (1650-1717). On the edge four biblical scenes...
EditorialShroud of Hori, New Kingdom, Ramesside, Dynasty 19?20, ca. 1295?1070 B.C., From Egypt, Linen, gesso, paint, H. 38 cm (14 15/16 in.); W. 43 cm (16 15/16 in.), This colorful scene depicts Hori at his funerary meal, wearing a cone of fragrant incense on h...
EditorialThe Triumph of Eternity The Triumph of Eternity, Round, stained glass pane depicting the Triumph of Eternity. A classic triumphal cart rides against a backdrop of a mountainous landscape with a city. On the cart, on a rectangular pedestal, God the Fath...
EditorialShroud of Hori, New Kingdom, Ramesside, Dynasty 19?20, ca. 1295?1070 B.C., From Egypt, Linen, gesso, paint, H. 38 cm (14 15/16 in.); W. 43 cm (16 15/16 in.), This colorful scene depicts Hori at his funerary meal, wearing a cone of fragrant incense on h...