EditorialCopper liver buttons with the Van Hees coat of arms, Copper liver buttons in which the Van Hees coat of arms has been struck, 36 large and five small. The Van Hees Coat of Arms (1824): crowned, with five-pointed corolla. Cross-section 1: in gold an eme...
EditorialCup with handle with the arms of the Van Blommenstein and De Roos family, Porcelain ear cup, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, yellow, black and gold. On the outer wall the alliance coat of arms of the Van Blommenstein and De Roos familie...
EditorialBowl with scrolls, bushes and Siddham characters, Porcelain bowl with slightly flared wall, painted in underglaze blue. On the wall a band with curling wake from which comes a stylized shrub eight times, a character among the shrubs, on the bottom a fl...
EditorialBlack and White Bird Perched on a Shrub, 1651-1652. Shafi' Abbasi (Iranian). Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper; sheet: 16.1 x 25 cm (6 5/16 x 9 13/16 in.); image: 7.7 x 13.4 cm (3 1/16 x 5 1/4 in.).
EditorialHunter kills antelope. Bestiary. England (Salisbury?); 1230-1240. (Miniature with text) An antelope, its horns entangled in a shrub, is attacked and killed by a hunter with an axe. Image taken from Bestiary. Originally published/produced in England (...
EditorialNegro superstition. West India Scenery, with illustrations of negro ch. R. Jennings & Co.: London, [1836?]. The text states '...a kind of ordeal in use among the Negroes, for extorting a confession of guilt from persons suspected of theft or other crim...
EditorialTamaris, ca. 1886?87, Oil on canvas, 10 x 15 1/2 in. (25.4 x 39.4 cm), Paintings, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (French, Lyons 1824?1898 Paris), The small plants with pink blossoms surrounding the reclining nude suggest that the artist intended her to be a...