EditorialHenri-Charles Maniglier, ca. 1850, Daguerreotype, 7 x 10 cm (2 3/4 x 3 15/16 in.), Photographs, Unknown (French), About the time this photograph was taken, the sculptor Maniglier (1826?1901) was among the artists selected to execute the monumental scul...
EditorialAlabaster jug, Late Cypriot II, ca. 1450?1200 B.C., Cypriot, Calcite (alabaster), H. 5 13/16 in. (14.8 cm), Miscellaneous-Stone Vases, This vase is made of a stone not found in Cyprus, although the bil-bil shape is a native type. It may have been carve...
EditorialScarab Inscribed With The Titulary of Amenhotep I, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, early, ca. 1525?1504 B.C., From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Asasif, Tomb CC 37, Hall (C), burial 16, inside large round basket, Carnarvon/Carter excavations, 1911, Jasper (gree...
EditorialThe Apotheosis of Napoleon I, 1859. This image was the design for an imperial cameo. In 1859 Napoleon III commissioned the sculptor Adolphe David to carve a companion cameo to the largest surviving cameo from the classical world, the Grand Camee de la ...
EditorialFisherman's God, Polynesian, (late 18th- early 19th?).The short, squat figure is a typical example of the so-called "fisherman's god", mounted at the front of ebery fishing canoe on Rarotonga, one of the Cook islands in the South Pacific.The wood carve...