EditorialMaking Bamboo Blinds, illustration for The Bamboo-Blind Shell (Sudare-gai), from the series "A Matching Game with Genroku-period Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)". Katsushika Hokusai ?? ??; Japanese, 1760-1849. Date: 1816-1833. Dimensions: 20.0 x ...
EditorialNegative - Manangatang, Victoria, 1933, A farm house with canvas blinds shading the verandah. A man and dogs stand beside the water tank. There is the shadow of a washing line in the foreground.
EditorialSecretly from the pictures, Various possibilities of designing niches / blinds in a wall, which are also provided with busts by sculptors, Tab. 57, p. 159, Sturm, Leonhard Christian, 1725, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola: Ausf?hrliche Anleitung zu der gantz...
EditorialInro with bamboo curtains and cherry blossoms, ojime, Decorated on both sides with partially rolled blinds with tassels, cords, etc. and cherry blossoms in gold., anonymous, Japan, c. 1700 - c. 1800, Edo-period (1600-1868), wood (plant material), lacqu...
EditorialWriting desk with a raised back Writing table with stand, Table intentionally decorated with marquetry in several types of wood on an oak core and with gilt bronze. The front legs are placed at right angles. The connecting sheet between the legs, the f...
EditorialNegative - Brighton?, South Australia, 1937, Three men and a woman beside a truck outside Wilson's Hotel. The letters'ghton' are visible and the location may be Brighton. There are large blinds (advertising West End Beer) drawn down on the verandah.
EditorialNegative - Chinkapook, Victoria, 1926, Three children in front of a farm house. There is a water tank on the left. The house has canvas blinds on the verandah.
EditorialPrincess Takiyasha summons a skeleton spectre to frighten Mitsukuni, Edo period, Japan, c1844. The princess is reciting a spell written on a handscroll. She summons up a giant skeleton which comes rearing out of a terrifying black void, crashing its wa...
EditorialMaking Bamboo Blinds, illustration for The Bamboo-Blind Shell (Sudare-gai), from the series "A Matching Game with Genroku-period Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)". Katsushika Hokusai ?? ??; Japanese, 1760-1849. Date: 1816-1833. Dimensions: 20.0 x ...
EditorialWomen Behind Blinds, left sheet of the triptych Parody on the Eight Views: Clearing Mist, from the series Genji Figures from the Imitation Murasaki. Date: first month 1861. Dimensions: 37 cm x 25 cm.
EditorialThe emperor (Muhammed Shah) is making love upon a bed placed on a verandah before a fountain and pool, with two girl attendants standing on either side holding a 'morchal' and fan. There is a green halo about the emperor's head and he still wears his w...
EditorialNoh Costume (Nuihaku) with Ivy, Incense Wrappers, and Bamboo Blinds, ?????????????, Edo period (1615?1868), first half of the 18th century, Japan, Silk embroidery and gold leaf on silk satin, 60 x 50 in. (152.4 x 127 cm), Costumes, Garments decorated w...
EditorialCylindrical box, Edo period (1615?1868), 19th century, Japan, Red lacquer on bamboo with sprinkled gold powder, H. 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm); Diam. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm), Lacquer, This box probably held a tea whisk. The designs are of the autumn grass hagi (bush...
EditorialA woman with a hood on the head leaning out a window with horizontal blinds, print maker: J.H. Pluygers (mentioned on object), Dating 1800 - 1899.
EditorialPrincess Takiyasha summons a skeleton spectre to frighten Mitsukuni, Edo period, Japan, c1844. The princess is reciting a spell written on a handscroll. She summons up a giant skeleton which comes rearing out of a terrifying black void, crashing its wa...