EditorialDesign by Doucet. 'This ball or dinner gown is made in soft rose satin, the skirt arranged at the back with three graceful flounces of lace. The tablier of guipure, bordered with ermine, repeats the design upon the back and front part of corsage. The s...
EditorialFigure 3: Head-dress of white satin. One purple and two white feathers placed in the bandeau on the left side. The hair, light frizzed, thrown into easy curls, falling over the bandeau. Long ear-rings of pearls. One string of pearls and one chain of go...
EditorialAdmiral Hughes and Mrs. Oakeley. c.1783. Admiral Hughes, holding his tree-corned hat in his hand, stands facing Mrs. Oakeley who wears a panniered dress and elaborate feathered head-dress. Admiral Sir Edward Hughes (1720?-94) was Commander-in-Chief, Ea...
EditorialStela of god Tutu. Limestone. Greek inscription upon the base.The stela shows the gods Tutu and Athena/Neith. Tutu appears as a striding sphinx. His head is rendered in frontal view, wearing the nemes head-dress and tni crown with the Hathor crown, and...
EditorialSlab with relief of a male winged sphinx wearing divine horned head-dress. 358-338 BC. Originally part of the facade of the Palace G, built by King Artaxerxes III, but later became part of the facade of the Palace H. Persepolis. Iran. British Museum. L...
EditorialFragment of a limestone crown belonging to a statue of the Great Goddess, Hellenistic, 2nd half of the 4th century B.C., Cypriot, Limestone, Overall: H. 7 1/2 x W.:7 5/8 x D. 2 in. (19.1 x 19.4 x 5.1 cm), Stone Sculpture, Fragment of large statue, high...
EditorialSlab with relief of a male winged sphinx wearing divine horned head-dress. 358-338 BC. Originally part of the facade of the Palace G, built by King Artaxerxes III, but later became part of the facade of the Palace H. Persepolis. Iran. British Museum. L...
EditorialSilver pendant, Slav (Kiev type), 12th century. This silver temporal pendant or earring is one of a pair. It would have been worn in the region of the temples, suspended from a crown or head-dress. The pendant is decorated with an interlaced, mythical ...
EditorialCast silver statuetter from the Oxus Treasure, Achaemenid Persian, from Tadjikistan, 5th-4th BCE. The figure wears a Persian head dress, but his nakedness shows Greek influence. The Oxus Treasure, the most important collection of gold and silver to hav...