EditorialUnfinished pocketbook, Medium: silk Technique: painted on plain weave Label: painted silk, Painted ivory silk taffeta panel for the sides of a pocketbook. Design has a frame with an oval opening (as for monogram) with a floral wreath above, and a baske...
EditorialPlaque, Wedgwood, English, established 1759, Unglazed tinted stoneware (Jasperware), Blue and white Jasperware plaque, a vertical panel with arched ends, containing two female figures in flowing robes, walking to the left. Figure on right carries baske...
EditorialAn Apple Tree Near a Cottage, Richard Westall, 17651836, British, undated, Watercolor and graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper, Sheet: 5 7/8 x 7 1/8 inches (14.9 x 18.1 cm) and Image: 4 x 4 7/8 inches (10.2 x 12.4 cm), apple tree, apples, baske...
EditorialWoman Bending over Basket, Attributed to Gangaram Chintaman Tambat, active 1790s, Anglo-Indian, undated, Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 6 1/4 ? 6 9/16 inches (15.9 ? 16.7 cm), baske...
EditorialInterior with a farmer's family, Interior of a farm with all kinds of household goods and a box bed. A woman has a child on her lap and gives this to eat. Behind her is her husband, holding a knife in his hand. On the right a child arrives with a baske...
EditorialKurassier's saber, saber for carabiner's officer, respectively Kurassiers with hilt à garde de Bataille, ca. 1820. Copper hilt, ornamented and engraved handle cap. Wooden handle wrapped with copper wire. Copper front bracket, four side brackets, baske...
EditorialSaucer with a lady with flower basket and flowering plants in panels, Porcelain dish with spreading wall painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, black and gold. On the plate of the dish a medallion with a lady in a landscape with a flower baske...
EditorialOsakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen depicting the cityscape of Osaka during the Toyotomi Era (1583-1615) in the Momoyama Period. Housed in Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Castle Museum) Graz, Austria. Panel 2 - A baske...
EditorialPicnic basket, Qing dynasty (1644?1911), 19th century, China, Zitan wood with metal corner mounts, inlaid with mother-of-pearl and semiprecious stones, H. 9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm); L. 15 1/8 in. (38.4 cm); D. 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm), Woodwork, This picnic baske...
EditorialEarring, 6th?7th century, Langobardic or Byzantine (?), Gold, glass, and pearls., Overall: 1 3/4 x 9/16 x 1in. (4.5 x 1.5 x 2.6cm), Metalwork-Gold, Fashionable in Italy for at least a century before the arrival of the Langobards, earrings of the ?baske...
EditorialScene from Etienne Jouy's 1808 play La Marchande des Modes, a parody of La Vestale (his own opera from 1807 with music by Spontini). A despondent Miss Julie, fashion apprentice, is ordered upstairs by Mr de Crepanville while her companions hold a baske...