EditorialMadonna and Child with Angels, ca. 1445?50, Tempera on wood, gold ground, Overall, with shaped top and engaged (modern) frame, 31 3/4 x 19 3/4 in. (80.6 x 50.2 cm); painted surface 25 1/8 x 13 1/2 in. (63.8 x 34.3 cm), Paintings, Sassetta (Stefano di G...
EditorialTerracotta cosmetic vase, Archaic, 4th quarter of the 6th century B.C., East Greek, Terracotta, Overall: 3 7/8 x 5 3/16 in. (9.8 x 13.2 cm), Vases, On one side of the upper frieze of this exquisite vase, a youth holds two winged horses and two youths d...
EditorialFire screen (?cran), Georges Jacob (French, 1739?1814), Fabric panel in the style of Philippe de Lasalle (French, 1723?1804), ca. 1786, French, Paris, Carved, gilded and silvered beech; 18th-century silk brocade (not original to frame), H. 42 x W. 26-3...
EditorialA Road in a Gorge near Naples, 1782, Watercolor, gum arabic glazes, over graphite, Sheet: 14 3/4 ? 19 1/8 in. (37.5 ? 48.5 cm), Drawings, Thomas Jones (British, Trevonen, Wales 1742?1803 Pencerrig, Wales), Jones belonged to an innovative coterie of Bri...
Editorial'A girl dancing with shell clappers under her feet', Japan, Edo period, c1784. A little girl dressed in an exquisite kimono decorated with the lucky treasure pattern dances on half clam-shell 'hooves', fixed to her feet with silk cords which she pulls ...
Editorial??????, Chinese General Guan Yu (Kan?u), Edo period (1615?1868), 18th century, Japan, Ivory, H. 5 in. (12.7 cm); W. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm); D. 1 in. (2.5 cm), Netsuke, This exquisite carving depicts general Guan Yu (d. 220), the epitome of Confucian virtue...