EditorialStand for ice-cream cup (plateau Bouret) (one of four) (part of a service), 1771, French, S?vres, Soft-paste porcelain, W. 8 1/4 in. (21.0 cm.), Ceramics-Porcelain, The table services produced at S?vres in the eighteenth century were highly prized and ...
EditorialStand for ice-cream cup (plateau Bouret) (one of four) (part of a service), 1771, French, S?vres, Soft-paste porcelain, W. 8 1/4 in. (21.0 cm.), Ceramics-Porcelain, The table services produced at S?vres in the eighteenth century were highly prized and ...
EditorialA man and woman sitting by a path in the foreground; sheep, trees and rocks surrounding them; boats on the River Clyde in the middle ground; hills in the distance. VIEW ON THE CLYDE : Dedicated to the Honble Mrs Erskine of Almondale with every sentimen...
EditorialOlgerd of Lithuania sending his messengers to Mamai with letters and assurance of great esteem. . Skazanie o Mamaevom Poboishche (the Tale of the Rout of Mamai). 17th century. The Skazanie is a romance in Russian Church Slavonic, composed in the 15th c...
EditorialMonsieur Daumier, your Robert-Macaire series is delightful. It's an exact picture of the thieves of our period... the faithful portrait of innumerable crooked characters one finds everywhere - in business, in politics, in bureaucracy, in finance, every...
EditorialStand for ice-cream cup (plateau Bouret) (one of four) (part of a service), 1771, French, S?vres, Soft-paste porcelain, W. 8 1/4 in. (21.0 cm.), Ceramics-Porcelain, The table services produced at S?vres in the eighteenth century were highly prized and ...
EditorialFruit stand (soucoupe ? pied) (one of four) (part of a service), 1771?72, French, S?vres, Soft-paste porcelain, Height: 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm); Diameter: 9 in. (22.9 cm), Ceramics-Porcelain, The table services produced at S?vres in the eighteenth century w...
EditorialPunch bowl (jatte ? punch), 1772, French, S?vres, Soft-paste porcelain, 5 1/8 ? 13 1/4 in. (13 ? 33.7 cm), Ceramics-Porcelain, The table services produced at S?vres in the eighteenth century were highly prized and extremely expensive. They were not onl...
EditorialStand for ice-cream cup (plateau Bouret) (one of four) (part of a service), 1771, French, S?vres, Soft-paste porcelain, W. 8 1/4 in. (21.0 cm.), Ceramics-Porcelain, The table services produced at S?vres in the eighteenth century were highly prized and ...
EditorialLepidotus fish, Late Period?Ptolemaic Period, 664?30 B.C., From Egypt, Cupreous metal, H. 3.9 cm (1 9/16 in.); W. 1 cm (3/8 in.); L. 7.6 cm (3 in.), The lepidotus fish was sacred to the Egyptians, and was linked in mythology to the story of the god Set...
EditorialSugar bowl with cover (sucrier de Monsieur le Premier) (one of a pair) (part of a service), 1772, French, S?vres, Soft-paste porcelain, Gr. H. 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm.); L. 9 in. (22.9 cm.), Ceramics-Porcelain, The table services produced at S?vres in the e...
EditorialBenjamin Moreland, High Master of St. Paul's School Inscribed in brown paint, across bottom: "This portrait of Benjamin Moreland, now first master of St. Paul's School, was presented to the company by a society of gentlemen, educated by him at Hackney,...
EditorialCarl Michael Bellmann (1740-95) playing guitar, 1779. Bellman, born in Stockholm, first attracted public attention in the 1760s with his drinking songs, generating such popular esteem that Gustav III gave him a government position to allow him to car...