EditorialEmblem: year, In the middle a palm tree (symbol for the annual rotation) with a medallion with the god Janus, the Roman god of the past and the future. The snake Ouroboros (symbol for eternity) has turned around the trunk of the palm tree. At the foot ...
EditorialOuroboros Encircling the Winged Helmet of Mercury and the Head of Athena [reverse]. Dated: after 1823. Dimensions: overall (diameter): 3.4 cm (1 5/16 in.). Medium: bronze.
EditorialPreliminary Design for the Title Page of the 'Nova Reperta' (New Inventions of Modern Times) print series, Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 15231605, Luigi Alamanni, Italian, 15581603, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and grey wash, bla...
EditorialVz: the creature has lances in its outstretched arms of which one seems to hold a scale (?), Under the feet an ouroboros enclosing a number of small animals, around an inscription., Gem, intaglio, lapis lazuli , Color: blue and gray, Shape: oval, Proce...
EditorialVz: on the lotus-calyx with two leaves is a naked Harpocrates to the left, his right hand is lifted to his mouth, the other hand has the scepter and (?) Flagellum fixed, all around, two by two, various animals: snakes, scorpions, birds, under a crocodi...
EditorialVz: Abrasax, under the figure an ouroboros., Gem, intaglio, amulet, heliotrope, Color: green with red spots, Shape: oval, Processing: edge at the back cut backwards compared to front, modeling and detailing with thick and thin rounded wheel grooves., 1...
EditorialMarriage glass, Goblet with a man and a woman at an altar and the inscription: GOD'S LOVE FLAME FEED OUR STEM, Flat foot. Faceted baluster stem with knots and a bubble. On the conical cup on one side a winged heart that holds two hands above an altar. ...
EditorialPortrait of Scheffer on a grave monument, Grave monument with a portrait to the right of Scheffer, half to the right. Two women in antique robes and a child grieve at a tomb in a landscape. The child is surrounded by a scythe, hourglass and an ouroboro...
EditorialReproduction of a tapestry over the Spanish Armada (July 21), English and Spanish fleet in the Channel below the coast of Cornwall and Devon with the coat of arms of the English Queen Elizabeth I. The show (numbered III) is set in an ornament border wi...
EditorialReproduction of a tapestry over the Spanish Armada (16-20 July), Spanish fleet in the Channel below the coast of Cornwall and Devon with the coat of arms of the English Queen Elizabeth I. The show (numbered top right I) is set in an ornament border wit...
EditorialJasper intaglio: Seated Serapis on crocodile, Imperial, 2nd century A.D., Roman, Jasper, green, Other: 3/4 x 9/16 x 1/16 in. (1.9 x 1.4 x 0.2 cm), Gems, On the obverse, Ouroboros enclosing Serapis on throne above a crocodile; above, scarab; below, mumm...
EditorialOuroboros, Illustration of a dragon, copperplate, SEXTA FIGURA, p. 353, 1678, Johann Friedrich Helvetius: Musaeum hermeticum reformatum et amplificatum [...]. [Frankfurt]: [Sande], [1677].
EditorialMemorial for Petrus Broes, Allegorical funeral monument for the pastor Petrus Broes. On the right the personification of Time, with ears of corn and a sickle, that puts an end to life. On the left a wailing woman with a book under her arm. They flank t...
EditorialMarriage glass, Goblet with a man and a woman at an altar and the inscription: GOD'S LOVE FLAME FEED OUR STEM, Flat foot. Faceted baluster stem with knots and a bubble. On the conical cup on one side a winged heart that holds two hands above an altar. ...
EditorialWine glass with two hands around a heart, Goblet with two hands holding a heart and a poem at a silver wedding, Flat foot with folded edge. Faceted baluster stem with three knots. Conical cup with faceted, rounded bottom. On the chalice an engraved rep...
EditorialPortrait of Scheffer on a grave monument, Grave monument with a portrait to the right of Scheffer, half to the right. Two women in antique robes and a child grieve at a tomb in a landscape. The child is surrounded by a scythe, hourglass and an ouroboro...
EditorialEmblem: year, In the middle a palm tree (symbol for the annual rotation) with a medallion with the god Janus, the Roman god of the past and the future. The snake Ouroboros (symbol for eternity) has turned around the trunk of the palm tree. At the foot ...
EditorialReproduction of a tapestry over the Spanish Armada (July 21), English and Spanish fleet in the Channel below the coast of Cornwall and Devon with the coat of arms of the English Queen Elizabeth I. The show (numbered III) is set in an ornament border wi...
EditorialCup with symbolic objects, Porcelain cup with a cylindrical body and C-shaped ear, painted on the glaze in green, brown, black and gold. On the outside wall, against a gray background, various symbolic objects: crown of thorns with censer, ouroboros wi...
EditorialReproduction of a tapestry over the Spanish Armada (16-20 July), Spanish fleet in the Channel below the coast of Cornwall and Devon with the coat of arms of the English Queen Elizabeth I. The show (numbered top right I) is set in an ornament border wit...
EditorialOuroboros Encircling the Winged Helmet of Mercury and the Head of Athena [reverse]. Dated: after 1823. Dimensions: overall (diameter): 3.4 cm (1 5/16 in.). Medium: bronze.
EditorialOuroboros Encircling the Winged Helmet of Mercury and the Head of Athena [reverse]. Dated: after 1823. Dimensions: overall (diameter): 3.4 cm (1 5/16 in.). Medium: bronze.
EditorialJasper intaglio: Seated Serapis on crocodile, Imperial, 2nd century A.D., Roman, Jasper, green, Other: 3/4 x 9/16 x 1/16 in. (1.9 x 1.4 x 0.2 cm), Gems, On the obverse, Ouroboros enclosing Serapis on throne above a crocodile; above, scarab; below, mumm...
EditorialJasper intaglio: Harpocrates seated on a lotus, Imperial, ca. 2nd?3rd century A.D., Roman, Jasper, H.: 1 1/16 x 15/16 in. (2.7 x 2.4 cm), Gems, Amulet: Ouroboros enclosing Harpocrates seated on a lotus.