EditorialEwer and basin, Lampetkan, The round can rest on a curved, six-lobed foot with a low straight-walled base. At the top of the foot is a rosette of hanging leaves. The base is driven with alternating cartouch-shaped and triangular fields that are filled ...
EditorialChess set, The figures are each on a piece of land, placed on a turned and profiled pedestal, on which a fence of fleurons. The black king sits with his bearded head turned slightly to the right on a prancing horse, the forelegs of which rest on a drag...
EditorialTwo fragments of a decorative limestone. Presentation: scrolls and spirals, palm tree, animals such as a bird, lizard, lion, birds, turtle, horse, snail, bird, worm and a path., Ornamental frame, fragment, stone, limestone, 195 ? 21.5 cm, late-Roman, p...
EditorialAlyssa Whitbread, a researcher, attaches an orange, numbered tag to a Chittenango ovate amber snail during a survey at Chittenango Falls State Park, in Cazenovia, in central New York, Aug. 25, 2022. (Jessica Suarez/The New York Times)
EditorialIllustrations from the Froissart manuscript in the British Museum. Calligraphic title page with illuminated panel showing mermaid and knight emerging from a snail shell with legs and tail. Handcoloured lithograph after an illuminated manuscript from Si...
EditorialThe Netherlands Middle Ages, snail, snail, 3.1 x 2.9 cm, 3.0 x 2.3 cm, 2.8 x 2.4 cm, x, the Netherlands, Utrecht, Wijk bij Duurstede, Wijk bij Duurstede, , Dorestad.
EditorialRingent snail and lamp snail, Helix ringens and Helix carocolla. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany," London, 1799. Most of the 1,064 illustrations of animals, birds, insects, crustace...
EditorialPriapic medal to Valeria Messalina and Emperor Claudius. Rear side of an engraved medal of cornaline showing a snail and seven phalli Priapus with the words Messal Claudi Invicta. Copperplate engraving from Pierre-Francois dHarcanvilles Monumens du Cul...
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk Technique: embroidered on plain satin, Breadth of cream satin with design in pastel chain stitch and touches of black. Set sidewise on it: arched garland caught with bow and heavy tassels at top over small landscape with crane-li...
Editorialpainting, 17th or 18th century, Signature front, bottom right, in the niche: J. van Huysum, canvas, oil paint, painted, Carrier: 53 ? 41.4 ? 2.2cm 530 ? 414 ? 22mm, With frame: 61 ? 49 ? 2.5cm 610 ? 490 ? 25mm, still life, flower, snail, Still life wit...
Editorialpainting, 17th or 18th century, Signature front, bottom right, in the niche: J. van Huysum, canvas, oil paint, painted, Carrier: 53 ? 41.4 ? 2.2cm 530 ? 414 ? 22mm, With frame: 61 ? 49 ? 2.5cm 610 ? 490 ? 25mm, still life, flower, snail, Still life wit...
EditorialCup-shaped polyps, magnified under a microscope, 18th century. Polyps attached to pondweed 1 and a snail 7. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1...
Editorialpainting, 17th or 18th century, Signature front, bottom right, in the niche: J. van Huysum, canvas, oil paint, painted, Carrier: 53 ? 41.4 ? 2.2cm 530 ? 414 ? 22mm, With frame: 61 ? 49 ? 2.5cm 610 ? 490 ? 25mm, still life, flower, snail, Still life wit...
EditorialFlagon and butterdish from Delft, Netherlands, 18th century. Pitcher decorated with flowers, butterdish in floral pattern with a snail on the lid. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquot's General History of Ancient French and Foreign Glazed Pot...
EditorialElves in a snail race in Fairyland. Handcoloured woodblock print by Edmund Evans after an illustration by Richard Doyle from In Fairyland, a series of Pictures from the Elf World, Longman, London, 1870.