Editorial0310000102 Portable altar, Medieval, from Germany, c1200. Portable altar engraved with the four symbols of the Evangelists and Saints Peter, Andrew, Stephen and Lawrence. Above the altar-stone, (likely to be a variety of Purbeck marble), there is an iv...
EditorialCandlestick on three legs in the form of sirens, The three legs, the base, the trunk, the fat trap and the candle pin are cast separately. The legs are shaped like sirens. The profiled foot is adorned with grunts on top. The trunk consists of an invert...
EditorialAnatomical study of the head, nose and tongue, Representation of a head with an open mouth. Above and below: anatomical studies of the skin of the mouth, nose and tongue. Numbered top right T. 13, mouth wide open (front view), mouth and throat cavity, ...
EditorialBottom part of a tin salt container, Bottom of a tin salt container. At the top a cavity for salt or herbs. Traces of redemption are present. Together with a middle and an upper part it forms a salt barrel., Nova Zembla, Behouden Huys, Willem Barendsz,...
EditorialLead, weight or plumb bob, conical with flattened top in which a hole is arranged, conical with a flattened top in which a hole is arranged and a cavity or soul at the bottom. The lead can be attached to a thin cord. This lead may have been part of a n...
EditorialCenterpiece of a tin salt container, Centerpiece of a tin salt container. At the top a cavity for salt or herbs. Traces of silvering are visible. Together with a lower and middle section, it forms a salt vessel., Nova Zembla, Behouden Huys, Willem Bare...
EditorialEnthroned bishop, Holy bishop sits on full throne and looks straight ahead. Right hand makes a blessing gesture, in the left hand he held the curve with the sudarium. He wears a bar, amict, albe, dalmatia and choir hood with aurifrisia with apostle fig...
EditorialMerchandise Tin salt container, three-part, cylindrical with an elongated bell shape, Tin salt container, cylindrical with an elongated bell shape. The two lower parts have a cavity on the top for salt or herbs. On the middle part fits an onion-shaped ...
EditorialCtenophora, Print, Ctenophora comprise a phylum of invertebrate animals that live in marine waters worldwide. They are notable for the groups of cilia they use for swimming (commonly referred to as "combs"), and they are the largest animals to swim wit...
EditorialBelemnitella mucronata, Print, Belemnitella is a genus of belemnite from the Late Cretaceous of Europe and North America. Belemnitella was a squidlike animal, probably related to the ancestors of modern squids and cuttlefish. The shell was internal. Th...
Editorialeonardo da Vinci, Sagittal and Horizontal Sections of the Human Head with Layers of the Head compared with an Onion. K/P 32r (ca. 1490). On this page Leonardo outlined in a sagittal and transverse plane the 'cell doctrine' concept. The brain cavity is ...
Editorialeonardo da Vinci, Sagittal and Horizontal Sections of the Human Head with Layers of the Head compared with an Onion. K/P 32r (ca. 1490). On this page Leonardo outlined in a sagittal and transverse plane the 'cell doctrine' concept. The brain cavity is ...
EditorialCenter Panel of a Triptych with the Crucifixion and the Entombment, ca. 1100, Made in Amalfi, South Italian, Ivory, Overall: 8 7/8 x 4 1/8 x 9/16 in. (22.5 x 10.4 x 1.4 cm), Ivories, Originally the central panel of a triptych, this ivory has a cavity b...
EditorialDissection of the human diaphragm, chest cavity, and details of the pharynx and larynx. Copperplate engraving by Robert Benard after an illustration by Albrecht von Haller from Denis Diderot's Encyclopedia, Pellet, Geneva, 1779.
EditorialArteries in the chest cavity to the heart and lungs. Copperplate engraving by Robert Benard after an illustration by Albrecht von Haller from Denis Diderot's Encyclopedia, Pellet, Geneva, 1779.
Editorial0310000102 Portable altar, Medieval, from Germany, c1200. Portable altar engraved with the four symbols of the Evangelists and Saints Peter, Andrew, Stephen and Lawrence. Above the altar-stone, (likely to be a variety of Purbeck marble), there is an iv...
EditorialUsed palette of the painter Dedia, " overseer of the draughtsmen of the God Amun in Karnak, under the reign of Sethi I". Four narrow brushes in the cavity. 19th dynasty, Sethi I (1294-1279 BCE). Wood, traces of red paint, L: 41 cm Inv. N 2274.
EditorialReliquary in the form of a model stupa, 1st - 2nd century. The reliquary is in three parts. The drum of the stupa has an ovoid cavity that opens into the circular hollow base. The harmika (the short square railing surmounting the dome of the stupa) and...