EditorialBobbin lace scarf with Kashmir feather motifs, Black Bobbin lace scarf: Chantilly lace. A two-sided symmetrical design appears on a coarse and empty grid. At each end a pair of feather or palm motifs like Kashmir shawls, with their topvolutes cutting o...
EditorialSaucer with three Chinese acrobats and landscapes in panels, Porcelain dish with straight, ribbed wall and scalloped edge, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, black and gold. On the plate of the dish three Chinese acrobats in a fenced garde...
EditorialHalf Model of a Screw Steamer, Polychromed stacking model (starboard) of a three-mast propeller steamship. The model has a deck and a small campaign deck above the screw duct. Sharp stem with curl on the skeg. Elliptical fence with gilded Rijkswapen, s...
EditorialCain's anger raging jealousy weak, Parallel Title: The Angry and Envious Cain; Cain and Abel, Signed: H. Sperling sculp, copperplate engraving, pl. XXXIII (vol. 1), F?ssli, Johann Melchior; Sperling, Hieronymus (sculp.), 1731, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer: ...
Editorial39 keys, Pipe key, Pipe key with round eye and thick shaft on which weak grooves are still visible., Rome, c. 1400 - c. 1950, bronze (metal), l 8.6 cm ? w 2.7 cm.
EditorialCup and saucer with three Chinese acrobats and landscapes in panels, Porcelain cup and saucer with straight, ribbed wall and scalloped edge, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, black and gold. On the plate of the dish three Chinese acrobats...
EditorialWig powder shaker made of multicolored painted Meissen porcelain, Wig powder shaker made of painted porcelain. The spreader has an egg-shaped body and a long, slender neck that is screwed onto the body. The glans-shaped end has five holes. The body and...
EditorialHalf Model or a 90-Gun Ship of the Line, Polychromed mold model (starboard) of a three-mast. Forty gun ports spread over three decks. Twisted mirror, hollow wulf, no fence or side gallery, straight rudder with square rudder king. The sheer runs on both...
EditorialCup with three Chinese acrobats and landscapes in panels, Porcelain cup with straight, ribbed wall and scalloped edge, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, black and gold. Three Chinese acrobats depicted in a fenced garden, one of them on th...
EditorialEmergency coin of quarter thaler of Enno II, count of East Frisia, Obverse: bust man with a weak cap to the left within a circle. Reverse: coat of arms with year inside a circle, Enno II (Count of East Frisia), anonymous, 1529, silver (metal), striking...
EditorialHalf Model of a Boyer, Round fore ship. Prowly sphere above the end vertically. Grounding is complete. Forepart is quite high and sloping towards the sides. Round stern with falling stern (2/5 cm). A straight rudder over board with tiller and very wide...
EditorialModel of a 74-Gun Ship on a Slipway, Construction model or the hull of a 74-piece line ship in the ropes on a slope, using the French launch method The skin is omitted on the port side under the barwood and on the starboard side above the barwood, on s...
EditorialHalf Model or a 90-Gun Ship of the Line, Polychromed mold model (starboard) of a three-mast. Thirty-five gun ports spread over three decks. Twisted mirror, hollow wulf, no fence or side gallery, straight rudder with square rudder king. The sheer runs o...
EditorialTramp, Man on a rectangular plot with the right leg forward and the left against a rocky elevation. He put both hands in front of his chest. The head with long straight hair, which hangs down to the shoulder, is turned to the left. He is wearing a weak...
EditorialCup with three Chinese acrobats and landscapes in panels, Porcelain cup with straight, ribbed wall and scalloped edge, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, black and gold. Three Chinese acrobats depicted in a fenced garden, one of them on th...
EditorialDust rises in a low seam at the Orange-Nassau I mine at Heerlen, Netherlands, as a miner drills with a pneumatic pick. Steel props and caps are necessary in the 40 cm-high seams because the roofs are weak.
EditorialErcole I d'Este, 1431-1505, Duke of Ferrara, Modena, and Reggio 1471 [obverse]. Dated: 1505. Dimensions: overall (diameter): 9.2 cm (3 5/8 in.) gross weight: 219 gr. Medium: bronze//Weak cast.
EditorialErcole I d'Este, 1431-1505, Duke of Ferrara, Modena, and Reggio 1471 [obverse]. Dated: 1505. Dimensions: overall (diameter): 9.2 cm (3 5/8 in.) gross weight: 219 gr. Medium: bronze//Weak cast.
EditorialSaint Christopher Carrying Christ, 1510?20, Made in Lower Bavaria (Valley of the Danube), Germany, German, Limewood, 56 1/2 ? 19 1/2 ? 14 1/2 in., 72 lb. (143.5 ? 49.5 ? 36.8 cm, 32658g), Sculpture-Wood, According to legend, Saint Christopher devoted h...
Editorial?/? ?? ????? ??, Old Tree, Bamboo, and Birds, Ming dynasty (1368?1644), late 14th?early 15th century, China, Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on silk, Image: 9 15/16 x 10 1/8 in. (25.2 x 25.7 cm), Paintings, Unidentified Artist Chinese, late...
EditorialLintel and Relief from the Tomb of the Overseer of Priests and Keeper of the sacred Cattle Mereri, Describing His Exemplary Life, First Intermediate Period, Dynasty 9, ca. 2100?2030 B.C., From Egypt, Northern Upper Egypt, Dendera, Tomb of Mereri, Behin...
EditorialInscribed Lintel from the Tomb of the Overseer of Priests and Keeper of the Sacred Cattle Mereri, Describing His Exemplary Life, First Intermediate Period, Dynasty 9 or later, ca. 2100?2030 B.C., From Egypt, Northern Upper Egypt, Dendera, Tomb of Merer...
EditorialWatching a bad actor with a weak voice in a performance of Racine's Bajazet. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and etched by John Augustus Atkinson from Illustrations of the Miseries of Human Life, William Miller, London, 1807.
EditorialHenry IV (1425-1474). King of the Crown of Castile (1454-1474), nicknamed the Impotent. He was the last of the weak late medieval kings of Castile. Colored engraving.
EditorialDust rises in a low seam at the Orange-Nassau I mine at Heerlen, Netherlands, as a miner drills with a pneumatic pick. Steel props and caps are necessary in the 40 cm-high seams because the roofs are weak.
EditorialShortly before his death, in 1809, Joseph Haydn listens to the performance of his " Creation" in Vienna's Old University. Too weak to walk, he was carried to the concert in an armchair. Print after a lost contemporary watercolour.