EditorialPleated fan, Parchment leaf painted in gouache, carved and pierced mother-of-pearl sticks overlaid with gold and silver foil, rivet set with a faceted stone, Pleated fan. Parchment leaf painted in gouache. Obverse: a classical Roman scene set in the Ro...
EditorialPeacocks and Amorini, Walter Crane, (English, 18451915), Jeffrey & Company, 18361930 London, England, Block-printed paper, embossed and bronze gilded, On beige ground facing peacocks with spread tails alternating with sickle-bearing genii on chariots. ...
EditorialPleated fan, Parchment leaf painted in gouache, carved and pierced mother-of-pearl sticks overlaid with gold and silver foil, rivet set with a faceted stone, Pleated fan. Parchment leaf painted in gouache. Obverse: a classical Roman scene set in the Ro...
EditorialPainting of Venus and Penia, goddess of poverty and nurse of Eros, with three amorini (cupids) of desire, appetite and lust. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789.
EditorialPainting of Venus and Penia, goddess of poverty and nurse of Eros, with three amorini (cupids) of desire, appetite and lust. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789.
EditorialFlint gun turned into rifle, in empire style. The front part of the lock is very long, the rooster is engraved with a cornucopia, the final plate with a swan and a signature. The Damascus loop is browned and fills out at both the front and back, marked...
EditorialPainting of Venus and Penia, goddess of poverty and nurse of Eros, with three amorini (cupids) of desire, appetite and lust. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789.
EditorialPainting of Venus and Penia, goddess of poverty and nurse of Eros, with three amorini (cupids) of desire, appetite and lust. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789.