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EditorialBowl, Silver, ivory, ebony, Truncated cone-shaped bowl of silver, the outside covered with vertical staves of ebony and ivory alternating, interrupted by band inscribed with: The Gift of AS to her Grandson RS 1789. Three handles set horizontally., Scot...
EditorialCentaur, Gift from Gertrud Benndorf (Hamburg), Clay, hand-modeled, Clay, hand-modeled, Total: Height: 8.8 cm; Width: 5.5 cm; Depth: 8.2 cm, Ceramics, Small sculptures/small sculptures, Centaurs, late archaic, Greek antiquity, The centaur stands on the ...
EditorialBowl, 1888, Made in New York, New York, United States, American, Silver and silver gilt, Overall: 6 1/2 x 12 3/4 in. (16.5 x 32.4 cm); 81 oz. 2 dwt. (2521.7 g), Silver, Tiffany & Co. (1837?present), Tritons, seahorses, and seaweed ornament this command...
EditorialBowl, 1888, Made in New York, New York, United States, American, Silver and silver gilt, Overall: 6 1/2 x 12 3/4 in. (16.5 x 32.4 cm); 81 oz. 2 dwt. (2521.7 g), Silver, Tiffany & Co. (1837?present), Tritons, seahorses, and seaweed ornament this command...
EditorialBowl, 1888, Made in New York, New York, United States, American, Silver and silver gilt, Overall: 6 1/2 x 12 3/4 in. (16.5 x 32.4 cm); 81 oz. 2 dwt. (2521.7 g), Silver, Tiffany & Co. (1837?present), Tritons, seahorses, and seaweed ornament this command...
EditorialBowl, 1888, Made in New York, New York, United States, American, Silver and silver gilt, Overall: 6 1/2 x 12 3/4 in. (16.5 x 32.4 cm); 81 oz. 2 dwt. (2521.7 g), Silver, Tiffany & Co. (1837?present), Tritons, seahorses, and seaweed ornament this command...
EditorialCup on foot with Hebrew inscription, Slightly conical foot, on the underside a cut star. Funnel shaped chalice, rounded and faceted on the underside, on which a Hebrew text is engraved in a garland of floral vines, coming from a cornucopia: At the plac...
EditorialCong of jade, tomb gift, symbol of earth, used at sacrifice in Zhou period. This Cong is late imitation., anonymous, China, 1600 - 1699, jade (rock), h 11.2 cm ? w 6.5 cm ? d 6.5 cm.
EditorialIncense burner Incense burner with a cover in the shape of a mountain, Incense burner (burial gift) of earthenware on three feet and the cover in the shape of a mountain covered with a green glaze. On the wall of the pot a band in relief with a mountai...
EditorialTerracotta lekythos (oil flask), Archaic, ca. 500 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; black-figure, H. 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm), Vases, Oil served in the preparation of the dead for burial and as a dedication at the tomb. The lekythos was, therefore, a character...
EditorialBowl, 1888, Made in New York, New York, United States, American, Silver and silver gilt, Overall: 6 1/2 x 12 3/4 in. (16.5 x 32.4 cm); 81 oz. 2 dwt. (2521.7 g), Silver, Tiffany & Co. (1837?present), Tritons, seahorses, and seaweed ornament this command...