Editorial Local residents know their fate is largely dependent on the wind, which can bring the Dixie fire close or push it away. (Christian Monterrosa/The New York Times)
EditorialSidewall, Machine-printed paper, Aesthetic or Anglo-Japanesque pattern with overlapping geometric forms such as circles, rectangles, lancet arches, and quarter-circles framing motifs such as vases of flowers and cattails, owls, birds, fish, flowering s...
EditorialSidewall, Machine-printed paper, Aesthetic or Anglo-Japanesque pattern with overlapping geometric forms such as circles, rectangles, lancet arches, and quarter-circles framing motifs such as vases of flowers and cattails, owls, birds, fish, flowering s...
Editorialcattails, Fulper Pottery Company, founded 1805, Glazed stoneware, Tan-colored stoneware body, cast. Tall cylindrical body tapering outward at base. Design of cattails in relief around body. Covered with green matte glaze with ochre effects defining the...
EditorialTextile, Medium: cotton Technique: roller printed, Cattails and leafy fronds with kingfishers and a nest with three eggs on a brown ground., England, 18701879, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Textile.
EditorialFishing motif, Silver, brass, copper, Oblong, curved sides and corners; one side featuring incised and inlaid decoration of trout leaping out of water, situated horizontally on box body, its back a dark, oxidized color, its underside brass, fins and ey...
EditorialOverdoor, Block-printed on handmade paper, Goddess of classical antiquity, holding cattails in left hand, seated in a shell drawn by two dolphins which spout water. Above, a cupid with a double horn, heralding the approach of the goddess. The figures a...
EditorialVase, Maria Longworth Nichols, American, 18491932, Glazed stoneware with gilding and applied hand-modeled dragon, Dragon vase (first kiln - in red); cast, cream colored stoneware body with hand-modeled dragon encirling the shoulder and neck in high rel...
EditorialPetit Impiger Ortus, Abraham Genoels, Flemish, 1640 - 1723, Adam Frans van der Meulen, Flemish, 1631 - 1690, Engraving on white laid paper, First plate in a suite bearing the title, on a banner hung from a fork. Below, within a wreath of laurel, cattai...
EditorialPleated fan and case, Painted silk leaf; carved, pierced, and painted sandalwood sticks, Pleated fan. Leaf of saffron colored organdy painted with butterflies, marsh grasses and cattails in brown, copper and gold. Sticks of carved, pierced, and painted...
EditorialFidelia Bridges, Bird's Nest in Cattails, American, Fidelia Bridges (18341923), ca. 1875, American, Watercolor and gouache on light brown wove paper, 14 x 9 7/8 in. (35.6 x 25.1 cm), Drawings.
EditorialBowl with Mandarin Ducks among Leaves and Cattails. China. Date: 1000-1099. Dimensions: H. 6.6 cm (2 5/8 in.); diam. 23.7 cm (9 5/16 in.). Ding ware; porcelain with underglaze carved and incised decoration; metal rim. Origin: China.
EditorialBowl with Mandarin Ducks among Leaves and Cattails. China. Date: 1000-1099. Dimensions: H. 6.6 cm (2 5/8 in.); diam. 23.7 cm (9 5/16 in.). Ding ware; porcelain with underglaze carved and incised decoration; metal rim. Origin: China.
EditorialBowl with Mandarin Ducks among Leaves and Cattails. China. Date: 1000-1099. Dimensions: H. 6.6 cm (2 5/8 in.); diam. 23.7 cm (9 5/16 in.). Ding ware; porcelain with underglaze carved and incised decoration; metal rim. Origin: China.
EditorialBowl with Mandarin Ducks among Leaves and Cattails. China. Date: 1000-1099. Dimensions: H. 6.6 cm (2 5/8 in.); diam. 23.7 cm (9 5/16 in.). Ding ware; porcelain with underglaze carved and incised decoration; metal rim. Origin: China.