EditorialGold belt buckle fom the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, early 7th century. It is hollow and made in two parts joined by a hinge. The master-craftsman who made it devised a locking system involving a complex system of sliders and internal rods whic...
EditorialThe four brothers embrace outside the palace (centre), with women looking down from a shuttered jharokhā window supported by curving serpentine brackets. A rich cloth is spread over the sill. Then Bharata and ?atrughna go off in one chariot, with Yud...
EditorialWriting table (part of a set), Joseph Baumhauer (French, active ca. 1749?72), ca. 1770, French, Oak, veneered with tulipwood, purplewood, casuarina wood, and kingwood; gilt-bronze mounts, gilt-tooled leather, H. 29-3/4 x W. 69 x D. 39-1/4 in. (75.6 x 1...
EditorialSmall Double Spout Bowl with Repeated Curving Motif. Possibly Lima or Maranga; Central coast, Peru. Date: 450 AD-750 AD. Dimensions: 6.4 x 20 cm (2 1/2 x 7 7/8 in.). Ceramic and pigment. Origin: Peruvian Central Coast.
EditorialLandscape with Curving Road. Charles ?mile Jacque; French, 1813-1894. Date: 1849. Dimensions: 154 ? 201 mm (image); 168 ? 204 mm (plate); 298 ? 424 mm (sheet). Etching on mounted china paper. Origin: France.
EditorialCurving Vessel with Molded Head Spout. Chim?-Inca; North coast, Peru. Date: 1200-1450. Dimensions: H. 11 cm (4 5/16 in.). Ceramic. Origin: North Coast.
EditorialA dirt road curving to the left in the foreground; a gate, fence and barn on the left-hand side; buildings on the right; a boat on the water in the distance. VIEW AT NEWTOWN, ISLE OF WIGHT. [London] : Pubd Novr 14th 1796 F. Jukes Howland Street., [Nove...
EditorialQuarter of a Ceiling, Livre de Portion de Plafonds en Vousures (Book of Portions of Vaulted Ceilings), Fran?ois de Cuvilli?s the Elder, Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768, Fran?ois de Cuvilli?s the younger, German, 1731 - 1777, Nicolas Jean-Baptiste ...
EditorialTextile, Medium: linen warp, cotton weft Technique: relief printed, Curving bands of foliage and ribbons, more or less symmetrically arranged: a hunter on horseback blowing his horn and pursuing a stag with hounds. block print in polychrome, now somewh...
EditorialBedcover, Medium: silk, gilded paper on silk core, metallic thread Technique: embroidered on satin weave, Large bedcover of white satin embroidered in allover floral pattern in brilliant colored silks and metallic thread. Design, symmetrically arranged...
EditorialFragment, Medium: cotton Technique: plain weave foundation. block-printed: a resist medium. Dyed blue., Alternation of a slightly curving with a fine flowering vine superposed on it with units containing two peony-like flowers., France, 18th century, p...
EditorialFragment, Medium: linen Technique: block printed on plain weave, Fragment of heavy hand-woven linen in a dark cream color block printed in black. Design is mostly reserved in background color with details in black. Curving vine and stylized flowers for...
EditorialLetter case, Medium: straw, paper, linen Technique: embroidered in couching stitches, Letter case of braids, coils and strips of natural colored straw couched to a surface of flat strips of red dyed straw which have been sewn to paper and backed with p...
EditorialTrimming, Medium: silk Technique: cut and uncut, voided supplementary warp pile (velvet), Red trimming fragment in a design of a curving stem with flowers, leaves and buds between wavy borders., France, 18th century, trimmings, Trimming.
EditorialTextile, Medium: silk Technique: compound weave, Large-scale flowers and fruit on curving ogival stems, in white on salmon pink weft-ribbed ground. Two plain selvages., England, 18th century, woven textiles, Textile.
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk Technique: cut and uncut supplementary warp pile (velvet) on voided satin ground, Cisel? velvet in orange cut and uncut velvet. Ground in uncut pile. Figure of small round flowers in cut pile. Curving zigzag lines and also buds o...
EditorialFragment, Medium: bast fiber Technique: resist patterning on plain weave, Textile with allover pattern of blue resist on ivory showing rows of curving floral branches in offset alignment. Selvage on one side., France, 18th century, printed, dyed & pain...
EditorialFragment, Medium: tempera on silk Technique: printed and painted on plain weave, White ground with a central spray of blue bells, cherry blossoms and purple fringed flowers caught together with a red ribbon. Bluebells, cherry blossoms and purple and ye...
EditorialChintz, Medium: cotton Technique: mordants for 3 reds and black applied by pen and brush; madder dyed; 2 blues applied by brush over resist; yellow applied by immersion over resist; madder in orange stripe applied by block; chintz on plain weave, Curvi...
EditorialDesign for a Ceiling, Pen and ink, brush and wash on paper, Irregularly shaped page. At top right, a curving moulding with triglyphs and seashells. Below, part of an undecorated square with half a horned mask at top center. To the left, two term figure...
EditorialFragment, Medium: cotton Technique: block printed on plain weave, Fragment with a design of a curving vine with flowers and fruit in red, blue, violet and dark brown outlining., England, France or Germany, 18th century, printed, dyed & painted textiles...
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk Technique: warp-faced plain weave foundation with discontinuous supplementary wefts bound on the front in 3/1 twill and free-floating on the back., Square repeat of a branch with curving leaves and large blossoms [one red, one bl...
EditorialChintz, Medium: cotton Technique: mordants (black, brown, 2 reds, 2 purples) and dye (yellow) applied by pen or brush; blue applied by brush; chintz on plain weave, Curving vines enclosing motifs of people, buildings and a quail-like bird. Blue band at...