EditorialA polished jug with a light brown color. The belly has the largest diameter just above the bottom. After a sharp kink the wall runs with a slight curvature towards the narrow neck. The edge is funnel-shaped. A ridge accentuates the transition from the ...
EditorialBalance of iron, A forged iron balance. The arms of the balance are reduced to the ends from rectangular to octagonal cross-section and end in an open-worked button, the equator is open at the start with a rosy shape and has three open-worked buttons. ...
EditorialRedheaded Girl in Evening Dress (Jeune fille rousse en robe de soir), Amedeo Modigliani, 1918, Oil on canvas, Though the woman in this portrait is unidentified, with her vivid hair and strapless dress, she is no less memorable. She drapes her shoulder ...
EditorialBottle with Decoration of Pine Tree, Edo period (1615?1868), ca. mid-17th century, Japan, Stoneware with iron-painted design and copper-green glaze over brushed white slip (Takeo Karatsu ware), H. 13 in. (33 cm); Diam. 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm), Ceramics, Th...
EditorialOpenwork furniture plaque with a cow suckling a calf, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 9th?8th century B.C., Mesopotamia, Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Assyrian, Ivory, 1.73 x 3.19 x 0.59 in. (4.39 x 8.1 x 1.5 cm), Ivory/Bone-Reliefs, This fragmentary plaque depicts a cow ...