EditorialFigure of a shishi, Porcelain image on a high, rectangular base, painted on the biscuit with blue, green, yellow, eggplant and black. On the pedestal a shishi (lion dog) with a cub. The pedestal is covered with napkin work and cut open on two sides, in...
EditorialWilliam V and Wilhelmina of Prussia, Prince and Princess of Orange-Nassau, Prince and Princess of Orange-Nassau. Silver bear sign consisting of an oval medallion, surrounded by a halo, under an openwork crown. Obverse: man's bust inside the edge of cub...
EditorialLion training a cub. Utagawa Hiroshige ?? ??; Japanese, 1797-1858. Date: 1835-1845. Dimensions: 34.4 x 14.9 cm. Color woodblock print; section of harimaze sheet. Origin: Japan.
EditorialRetable, late 14th or early 15th century, Made in Catalonia, Spain, Catalan, Tempera and gesso on canvas, A: 70 1/2 x 38 in. (179.1 x 96.5 cm), Paintings-Panels, Master of Cub?lls (Spanish, active 1374?ca. 1406).
EditorialLion training a cub. Utagawa Hiroshige ?? ??; Japanese, 1797-1858. Date: 1835-1845. Dimensions: 34.4 x 14.9 cm. Color woodblock print; section of harimaze sheet. Origin: Japan.
EditorialA Lion Training a Cub. Utagawa Hiroshige ?? ??; Japanese, 1797-1858. Date: 1827-1839. Dimensions: 38 x 17.2 cm (15 x 6 3/4 in.). Color woodblock print; otanzaku. Origin: Japan.
EditorialLion training a cub. Utagawa Hiroshige ?? ??; Japanese, 1797-1858. Date: 1835-1845. Dimensions: 34.4 x 14.9 cm. Color woodblock print; section of harimaze sheet. Origin: Japan.
EditorialA wild animal. Ursa, a bear. With a smaller animal or young cub. . Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds. England, S. (Salisbury?). Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds. 2nd quarter of the 13th centu...
EditorialBas-de-page scene showing a tiger pursuing a horseman, who is carrying off its cub. Queen Mary Psalter. England (London?); circa 1310-1320. Source: Royal 2 B. VII, f.122v. Language: Latin.
EditorialMiniature depicting a man riding away on a horse with a tiger cub. Theological miscellany, including the Summa de vitiis. England; 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century, after c. 1236. Source: Harley 3244, f.36v. Language: Latin.
EditorialA wild animal. An adult mother bear licking her cub, to give it its shape. . Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds. England, S. (Salisbury?). Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds. 2nd quarter of the ...
EditorialLion. lioness and lion cub. Kitab Na't al-hayawan (book of the characteristics of animals). Middle East, 13th century. A treatise on animals and the medical properties of the various parts of their bodies, compiled from works of Aristotle and Ibn Bakht...
EditorialBas-de-page scene of a hunter distracting a tiger from the capture of its cub by casting a mirror onto the ground in front of it. Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter'). England (London/Westminster or East Anglia?); between 1310 and 1320. Source: Royal 2 B...
EditorialBear licking a cub into shape. Bestiary. England (Salisbury?); 1230-1240. (Whole folio) A bear licking into shape its cub which is born eyeless and unformed. Image taken from Bestiary. Originally published/produced in England (Salisbury?); 1230-1240....
EditorialA knight on horseback and a tiger with a mirror, illustrating the text that a tiger can outrun a man on a horse, so in order to steal a cub and escape, the thief should throw down a mirror, and the tigress will stop to look at its own reflection, think...
EditorialBas-de-page scene of a lion breathing life into its cub; a decorated initial 'D'(omine). Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter'). England (London/Westminster or East Anglia?); between 1310 and 1320. Source: Royal 2 B. VII, f.86v. Language: Latin, with Frenc...
EditorialMiniature showing a hunter, mounted on a horse and carrying a captured tiger cub, whilst the cub's mother is distracted by her reflection in a glass ball, with text. Bestiary. England (Durham?); 1200-1210. Source: Royal 12 C. XIX, f.28. Language: Latin.
EditorialFigure of lion mounted as lamp, probably 19th century, Chinese, Porcelain with colored glazes., Height: 26.6 cm., Ceramics, This Buddhist lion mounted as a lamp forms a pair with another. The lions sit on high plinths, which have a removable drawer. Th...
EditorialRetable, late 14th or early 15th century, Made in Catalonia, Spain, Catalan, Tempera and gesso on canvas, A: 70 1/2 x 38 in. (179.1 x 96.5 cm), Paintings-Panels, Master of Cub?lls (Spanish, active 1374?ca. 1406).
EditorialNuptials of Cupid and Psyche, overseen by Venus, Roman goddess of love. Wine jugs lie on the floor as Psyche relaxes and Cupid pulls a leopard cub by its tail. Copperplate engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi after a design by Giovanni Battista Cipriani f...