EditorialVessel used to drink cacao. It was drunk in cylindrical, narrow and tall ceramic vessels. Maya culture. Late classical (600-900 AD). Guatemala. Ceramics. Museum of the Americas. Madrid, Spain.
EditorialWine glass commemorating the wedding and birthday of Elisabeth van de Wall Chalice on the wedding day and birthday of Elisabeth van de Wall, Conical foot with pontil brand. The trunk made up of a baluster and a nodus, in which air bubbles have been ins...
EditorialLunch box of a Mohawk steel worker from Caughawaga, Canada. Mohawk Indians, the artist says, work in New York, drink beer and, when drunk, see pink buffaloes instead of pink elephants. Inv. AM 1983-N37 / 1.
EditorialStatuette of an old man, from the burial site on the Isle of Jaina, Mexico. The man is obviously drunk, his gait is unsteady, his loin-cloth has slipped below the girdle; he clutches two bottles. Terracotta (600-900 CE). Height 36.4 cm. Inv. 23 / 2573.
EditorialThe orators journey, engraving 1785, Charles James Fox, Mrs. Siddons, and Edmund Burke on a galloping horse beside a milestone inscribed 1 mile to perdition. Mrs. Siddons, as Lady Macbeth, holds a dagger in her right hand and a bowl in the left, saying...
EditorialThe orators journey, engraving 1785, Charles James Fox, Mrs. Siddons, and Edmund Burke on a galloping horse beside a milestone inscribed 1 mile to perdition. Mrs. Siddons, as Lady Macbeth, holds a dagger in her right hand and a bowl in the left, saying...