EditorialTortoise shell with the arms of the lords of Bennebroek, Shield of a tortoise with the painted weapon of the lords of Bennebroek on the outside. Copper wire is attached inside. The weapon consists of three horizontal lines, above and below red, middle ...
EditorialCovered baluster jar with figures in an interior behind framework, prunus trees and floral scrolls, Baluster-shaped porcelain pot with a spreading base, painted in underglaze blue and on the enamel red, black and gold. Two people sitting on the wall tw...
EditorialFragment of stove plate with the judgment of Solomon, Fragment of a stove plate of cast iron, divided into two zones. Only the upper part has been preserved with the judgment of Solomon. In the center is Solomon, sitting on a throne with canopy with tw...
EditorialFireplace with allegory on the Peace of Munster, Fireplace made of cast iron, with a semicircular top. Central is the personification of Peace with a palm branch in her hand, draped above her canvases and the inscription PAX. Peace is on weapons and tw...
EditorialCup with scalloped rim and panel decoration with large lappets, High porcelain cup with ribbed wall and scalloped edge, painted in underglaze blue. The wall is divided into six compartments with alternating curls in reserve against a blue ground and tw...
EditorialFragment of a Border. France. Date: 1855-1875. Dimensions: 64.6 ? 14.1 cm (25 3/8 ? 5 5/8 in.). Silk, plain weave; with supplementary patterning warps forming cut pile (velvet); and self-patterning wefts which tie with supplemenatry binding warps in tw...
EditorialBorder or Ribbon. France. Date: 1820-1840. Dimensions: 92.1 ? 4.5 cm (36 1/4 ? 1 3/4 in.). Silk and cotton, two-faced, two-color complementary warp weave of warp-float faced twill weave with areas of complementary warp-floats and of warp-float faced tw...
EditorialCountry road, Country road with walking figures and a farmstead, where a woman leans over the bottom door. In the background a wagon with two horses and on the right a church tower protrudes above the trees, road, path, four-wheeled vehicle drawn by tw...
EditorialFragment of a Border. France. Date: 1855-1875. Dimensions: 64.6 ? 14.1 cm (25 3/8 ? 5 5/8 in.). Silk, plain weave; with supplementary patterning warps forming cut pile (velvet); and self-patterning wefts which tie with supplemenatry binding warps in tw...
EditorialBorder or Ribbon. France. Date: 1820-1840. Dimensions: 92.1 ? 4.5 cm (36 1/4 ? 1 3/4 in.). Silk and cotton, two-faced, two-color complementary warp weave of warp-float faced twill weave with areas of complementary warp-floats and of warp-float faced tw...
EditorialCoryphaena hippurus, Print, The mahi-mahi or common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) is a surface-dwelling ray-finned fish found in off-shore temperate, tropical, and subtropical waters worldwide. Also widely called dorado and dolphin, it is one of tw...
EditorialCoryphaena hippurus, Print, The mahi-mahi or common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) is a surface-dwelling ray-finned fish found in off-shore temperate, tropical, and subtropical waters worldwide. Also widely called dorado and dolphin, it is one of tw...
EditorialCoryphaena hippurus, Print, The mahi-mahi or common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) is a surface-dwelling ray-finned fish found in off-shore temperate, tropical, and subtropical waters worldwide. Also widely called dorado and dolphin, it is one of tw...
EditorialCoverlet, 1858, William Fasig (American, 1801-1885), United States, Illinois, Clark County, Illinois, Cotton and wool, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound in plain interlacings with extended supplementary weft and main warp fringe, tw...
EditorialIn the left margin, the seventh angel with trumpet; the king, seated, gives orders to an executioner who tramples on three blindfolded corpses and is about to behead a fourth victim; on the right, a fifth not yet blindfolded emerges from a door, and tw...
EditorialFragment of a Border. France. Date: 1855-1875. Dimensions: 64.6 ? 14.1 cm (25 3/8 ? 5 5/8 in.). Silk, plain weave; with supplementary patterning warps forming cut pile (velvet); and self-patterning wefts which tie with supplemenatry binding warps in tw...
EditorialBorder or Ribbon. France. Date: 1820-1840. Dimensions: 92.1 ? 4.5 cm (36 1/4 ? 1 3/4 in.). Silk and cotton, two-faced, two-color complementary warp weave of warp-float faced twill weave with areas of complementary warp-floats and of warp-float faced tw...
EditorialSultan Mehmed II. Kiyafet ül-insaniye, a description of the first tw. 1588-1589. A portrait of Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror, d.1481. Image taken from Kiyafet ül-insaniye, a description of the first twelve Ottoman sultans. Originally published/pro...
EditorialPsalm 48; Mocking of Christ. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] Psalm 48. Border decoration with grotesque in the outer margin. In the lower margin, the Mocking of Christ. Christ seated, wearing a purple robe, as tw...
EditorialIn the left margin, the seventh angel with trumpet; the king, seated, gives orders to an executioner who tramples on three blindfolded corpses and is about to behead a fourth victim; on the right, a fifth not yet blindfolded emerges from a door, and tw...
EditorialSultan Murad III. Kiyafet ül-insaniye, a description of the first tw. 1588-1589. A portrait of Sultan Murad III (d.1595). Image taken from Kiyafet ül-insaniye, a description of the first twelve Ottoman sultans. Originally published/produced in 1588...
EditorialEmblem 26; figures soaring upwards. Notebook of William Blake. England; circa 1787-1818. [Whole folio] Emblem drawing of four naked figures, with hands held free, showing that upward flight is possible; one rises between the outstretched arms of the tw...
EditorialOliver escapes being bound to a sweep. This sketch is intended as a sort of title page to the twenty-five water colour drawings, etc. 1894. Twenty-six plates. Proofs in colour of the illustrations used in the Chapman & Hall 1895 edition of “Oliver Tw...
EditorialMr. Bumble and Mrs. Corney taking tea. This sketch is intended as a sort of title page to the twenty-five water colour drawings, etc. 1894. Twenty-six plates. Proofs in colour of the illustrations used in the Chapman & Hall 1895 edition of “Oliver Tw...
EditorialThe Trinity and Virgin flanked by saints. Below; famous historical persons, including Avicen, Socrates, Plato, and Ptolemy, with the evangelists in the corners. Text beginning with decorated initial 'A'. Borders with foliate decoration; at the foot, tw...
EditorialA sultan. Kiyafet ül-insaniye, a description of the first tw. 1588-1589. Portrait of a sultan. Image taken from Kiyafet ül-insaniye, a description of the first twelve Ottoman sultans. Originally published/produced in 1588-1589. . Source: Add. 7880,...
EditorialMurals in the Hall of the Zodiac, Palazzo d'Arco in Mantova. In the early 16th century the palace belonged to Luigi Gonzaga (1500-1532). Pisces, fish: A man warming his hands; two nude fishermen watching a figure falling from a rock, perhaps Sappho. Tw...
EditorialThe Small Triumphal Car or The Burgundian Marriage. From the triumphal procession of Emperor Maximilian I. 1516-1518. Left block (in original size): Maximilian as Duke and Mary of Burgundy holding the Burgundian coat of arms. Woodcut (printed from tw...
EditorialStem Vase with Incised and Painted Design, Middle period, 1000?300 B.C., Thailand (Ban Chiang culture), Earthenware with buff slip and red oxide decoration, H. 9 1/2 (24.1 cm); W. 6 7/8 in. (17.4 cm), Ceramics, This elegant stem cup was assembled in tw...
EditorialLimestone statue of a woman, Archaic, early 6th century B.C., Cypriot, Limestone, Overall: 30 ? 4 ? 7 1/2 in. (76.2 ? 10.2 ? 19.1 cm), Stone Sculpture, The figure is particularly noteworthy for her jewelry: two necklaces and ear caps from which hang tw...
EditorialHeadless statue of Babaef as older man, Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4?5, ca. 2475?2450 B.C., From Egypt, Memphite Region, Giza, Western Cemetery, Mastaba G5230, Harvard-Boston MFA excavations 1914, Limestone, H. 141 ? W. 33.5 cm (55 1/2 ? 13 3/16 in.), The tw...
EditorialArchuke Frank Karl Joseph of Austria (1802-1878). House of Habsburg. Father of tw emperors (Franz Joseph I of Austria and Maximilian I of Mexico). Portrait. Engraving, 1878. Colored.
EditorialGiovanni Francesco Grimaldi (Italian, 1606 - 1680). Landscape with Two Men near a Knoll, ca. 1660-1680. Etching (with river and bank foreground reinforced with pen and sepia ink) on laid paper. Plate: 260 mm x 186 mm (10.24 in. x 7.32 in.). First of tw...
EditorialArchuke Frank Karl Joseph of Austria (1802-1878). House of Habsburg. Father of tw emperors (Franz Joseph I of Austria and Maximilian I of Mexico). Portrait. Engraving, 1878.
EditorialMurals in the Hall of the Zodiac, Palazzo d'Arco in Mantova. In the early 16th century the palace belonged to Luigi Gonzaga (1500-1532). Pisces, fish: A man warming his hands; two nude fishermen watching a figure falling from a rock, perhaps Sappho. Tw...