EditorialCup with personifications of the four continents, inserted soil. Cylindrical body. The four continents are depicted on the body. Europe is personified by the Amsterdam mayor Joan Huydecoper (1599-1661), with a feathered hat, standing in front of his Go...
EditorialOne of eighteen designs for a series of plates illustrating Venus and Adonis, Hablot Knight Browne, 18151882, British, undated, Graphite, brown chalk, watercolor and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper, Sheet: 6 5/8 ? 6 5/8 inc...
EditorialHand guard, Oval tsuba with a man with a horse with branches or straw forests in front of a mountain landscape with pine trees in iroe-taka-zogan, at the rear a landscape and a hut and a waterfall., anonymous, Japan, 1600 - 1900, iron (metal), gold (me...
EditorialCup with personifications of the four continents, inserted soil. Cylindrical body. The four continents are depicted on the body. Europe is personified by the Amsterdam mayor Joan Huydecoper (1599-1661), with a feathered hat, standing in front of his Go...
EditorialPaul on his way to Damascus, Ronde, lead plaque, surrounded by a leaf edge. in the center of the foreground, Paul falls off his horse, looking up at the heavenly vision in which Christ appears to him. on his right, figures on horseback, frightening for...
EditorialHand guard, Rounded rectangular tsuba with at the front a man with a horse at a hut that looks at a dragon in the clouds in relief and iroe-taka-zogan, at the rear a mountain landscape with a waterfall and pine trees., anonymous, Japan, 1800 - 1900, Ed...
EditorialDish, Saucer-dish with a horse in a landscape, Porcelain dish with a scalloped edge, painted in underglaze blue. On the shelf a star-shaped cartouche with a horse in it, seen in short from the rear, in a landscape with rocks and trees. The corners of t...
EditorialInflation and tight supplies are the big reasons Christmas trees cost more this year. Still, there are some things you can do to keep the price down and still have a natural tree. (Thomas Fuchs/The New York Times)