EditorialRested in Germany under Ferdinand III, Rectangular silver medal. Front: man with a stick and horse's head (?) Inside an inscription. Reverse: inscription under two-headed eagle., Germany, M?nster, Ferdinand III (German emperor), anonymous, Neurenberg, ...
EditorialFragment of a wheel of a horsehorse from the wreck of the East Indies shipwreck 't Vliegend Hart, who died in 1735. The wheel fragment comes from a horse. A roller horse is a wooden base on which guns rested. The fragment is about a quarter of the orig...
EditorialAnd So He Rested on the Lonely Ground. Will Hicock Low; American, 1853-1932. Date: 1885. Dimensions: 196 x 383 mm. Brown and gray gouache, heightened with touches of white gouache, on cream wood-pulp laminate board. Origin: United States.
EditorialTerracotta relief probably from a funnel vase, Early Hellenistic, late 3rd?early 2nd century B.C., Greek, South Italian, Apulian, Canosan, Terracotta, 8 9/16 x 12in. (21.8 x 30.5cm), Vases, This is one of four reliefs with two-figure compositions depic...
EditorialTerracotta relief probably from a funnel vase, Early Hellenistic, late 3rd?early 2nd century B.C., Greek, South Italian, Apulian, Canosan, Terracotta, 9 5/8 x 12 1/8in. (24.5 x 30.8cm), Vases, This is one of four reliefs with two-figure compositions de...
EditorialAnd So He Rested on the Lonely Ground. Will Hicock Low; American, 1853-1932. Date: 1885. Dimensions: 196 x 383 mm. Brown and gray gouache, heightened with touches of white gouache, on cream wood-pulp laminate board. Origin: United States.
EditorialNegative - Horse Plough Team, Cannum South, Victoria, circa 1920, A horse team being rested. It is a six horse team pulling a scarifier. The draw bars to which the horses are attached are made from timber hewn on the property. The property is 'Pine Edg...
EditorialEagle-headed griffin. From the Noric city on Magdalens-berg, Austria. The griffin belonged to a group which surrounded the Apollo statue 10-02-01 / 46. As in other such groups, the god rested his lyre on the bridge between the griffin's wings. Bronze, ...
EditorialAnd So He Rested on the Lonely Ground. Will Hicock Low; American, 1853-1932. Date: 1885. Dimensions: 196 x 383 mm. Brown and gray gouache, heightened with touches of white gouache, on cream wood-pulp laminate board. Origin: United States.
EditorialAnd So He Rested on the Lonely Ground. Will Hicock Low; American, 1853-1932. Date: 1885. Dimensions: 196 x 383 mm. Brown and gray gouache, heightened with touches of white gouache, on cream wood-pulp laminate board. Origin: United States.
EditorialIn 1797 the tomb of King John at Worcester Cathedral was opened at the prompting of the engraver Valentine Green (d. 1813). Green had written a history of the city of Worcester, and had come to doubt previous descriptions of the tomb and its contents, ...
EditorialBowl, ca. 1910, French, Earthenware, H. 1-1/2, W. 4-1/4 in. (3.8 x 10.8 cm), Ceramics-Pottery, Metthey worked as a painter, sculptor, and interior designer before devoting himself entirely to ceramics in 1901. While other vanguard ceramists were workin...
EditorialEagle-headed griffin. From the Noric city on Magdalens-berg, Austria. The griffin belonged to a group which surrounded the Apollo statue 10-02-01 / 46. As in other such groups, the god rested his lyre on the bridge between the griffin's wings. Bronze, ...
EditorialBronze lamp holder, Cypro-Archaic II, 6th century B.C., Cypriot, Bronze, H. 12 11/16 in. (32.2 cm), Bronzes, This form of lamp holder was probably introduced by the Phoenicians, and it remained prevalent in Cyprus from about the eighth to the sixth cen...
EditorialBronze lamp holder, Cypro-Archaic II, 6th century B.C., Cypriot, Bronze, H. 12 15/16 in. (32.9 cm), Bronzes, This form of lamp holder was probably introduced by the Phoenicians, and it remained prevalent in Cyprus from about the eighth to the sixth cen...
EditorialBrewer's Vat of Queen Mother Ankhenes-Pepi, Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6, ca. 2246?2152 B.C., From Egypt; Probably from Memphite Region, Saqqara, South Saqqara, Travertine (Egyptian alabaster), H. 17.3 ? diam. 11.4 cm (6 13/16 ? 4 1/2 in.); spout L. 1.5 cm (...
EditorialTerracotta relief probably from a funnel vase, Early Hellenistic, late 3rd?early 2nd century B.C., Greek, South Italian, Apulian, Canosan, Terracotta, 8 9/16 x 12in. (21.8 x 30.5cm), Vases, This is one of four reliefs with two-figure compositions depic...
EditorialThe Imado Bridge at the Foot of Mount Matsuchi, Edo period (1615?1868), 19th century, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk, 16 3/8 x 22 5/8 in. (41.6 x 57.5 cm), Paintings, Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1797?1858 Tokyo (Edo)), Hirosh...
EditorialTerracotta relief probably from a funnel vase, Early Hellenistic, late 3rd?early 2nd century B.C., Greek, South Italian, Apulian, Canosan, Terracotta, 9 5/8 x 12 1/8in. (24.5 x 30.8cm), Vases, This is one of four reliefs with two-figure compositions de...
EditorialBronze lamp holder, Cypro-Archaic II, 6th century B.C., Cypriot, Bronze, H. 12 11/16 in. (32.2 cm), Bronzes, This form of lamp holder was probably introduced by the Phoenicians, and it remained prevalent in Cyprus from about the eighth to the sixth cen...
EditorialBronze lamp holder, Cypro-Archaic II, 6th century B.C., Cypriot, Bronze, H. 12 15/16 in. (32.9 cm), Bronzes, This form of lamp holder was probably introduced by the Phoenicians, and it remained prevalent in Cyprus from about the eighth to the sixth cen...
EditorialBowl, ca. 1910, French, Earthenware, H. 1-1/2, W. 4-1/4 in. (3.8 x 10.8 cm), Ceramics-Pottery, Metthey worked as a painter, sculptor, and interior designer before devoting himself entirely to ceramics in 1901. While other vanguard ceramists were workin...
EditorialFROM KARLSRUHE TO THE HAGUE ON HORSEBACK, 1889. Lieutenant Harry von Bohlen Halbach, of the Life Dragoon Regiment of the Grand Duke of Baden (third son of the Baron von Bohlen Halbach, Grand Seneschal to H.R.H. the Grand Duke of Baden), lately rode a m...
EditorialMonument to Queen Louise of Prussia, 1811, Gransee. Queen Louise (1776-1810), wife of king Friedrich Wilhelm III, was extremely popular, because of her curageous stand against Napoleon. Gransee was the place where her coffin rested on its way to Charlo...
EditorialEagle-headed griffin. From the Noric city on Magdalens-berg, Austria. The griffin belonged to a group which surrounded the Apollo statue 10-02-01 / 46. As in other such groups, the god rested his lyre on the bridge between the griffin's wings. Bronze, ...
EditorialFragments of an architrave made of travertine stone. In the Augustean era (31 BCE-14 CE), travertine columns replaced the former columns made of grey tuff. The architrave of the Augustean portico rested on a lower row of columns and supported a second row.
EditorialBeit Shemesh, Samson's home, a Canaanite city conquered by the tribes of Dan and Judah. The Ark of the Covenant rested here on its way from Philistia to Kirjat Shearim (I Samuel 6: 12). During the battle of Beit Shemesh, King Amazia of Judah was taken ...
EditorialOasis of Marah (Bitter Waters). The Israelites rested here during Exodus. Almost dry today with only few surviving palm trees (Marah, Hebrew for " bitter"), Sinai, Egypt.