EditorialPurse, Medium: steel Technique: interlinking, Purse is horizontal rectangle of interlinked wire ornamented with attached spangles. Handle is a chain of linked wire., probably Germany, mid-19th century, costume & accessories, Purse.
EditorialA burst of flame and on either side a lion salient before a wall, and two scrolls ('The mouth of the Collorick beware' and 'Heare is the last of the red stone and the beginning to put away the dead the elixir vita'). A sun above a crowned male Bird of ...
EditorialA yellow sun, between two panels bearing verses; beneath, a crowned male Bird of Hermes biting on its left wing, with drops of blood falling on either side, and standing on a sea-filled orb stuck with feathers; beneath, verses and a blank scroll. A go...