EditorialCabinet French artificial cabinet made of ebony, Art cabinet, glued with ebony on a pine core. Wall cabinet with two doors, behind which drawers with two interior doors. In the interior an architecturally constructed space with biblical figures of gild...
EditorialChocolate cup and saucer Chocolate cup Chocolate cup, multi-colored with chinoiseries, Chocolate cup made of painted porcelain. The lower half is decorated with cannelures in relief, alternately painted green and gold. The foot and mouth edges are gild...
EditorialFrench court, medal with 'respect a la loi', Bronze oval medal on the eye,. Front: inscription within oak wreath. Reverse: inscription within oak wreath. Possibly an identification tag., Jean Theodore Maurisset, Paris, 1791 - 1815, bronze (metal), gild...
EditorialOval bowl of silver partially gold-plated, Oval bowl of silver partially gold-plated. On the wide edge 6 medallions with busts. A colonnade and figures on the shelf., Johann Heinrich Mannlich (attributed to), Augsburg, 1675 - 1700, silver (metal), gild...
EditorialDrinking horn, Smooth, curved, widening tube, the broad side trimmed with a glass wire, the narrow side ending in a ring and a double knob. On the body three ribbed glass threads and two smooth eyes. Along the top edge and on the button remains of gild...
EditorialJacob's dream, In a landscape Jacob is lying to the left with his head on his right arm on a stone for two trees and a natural stone wall. A ladder stands diagonally to the cloudy sky at his feet, anonymous, Mechelen, c. 1600, alabaster (mineral), gild...
EditorialAvalokitesvara, Avalokitesvara (Guanyin), standing on a lotus cushion, in the raised right hand a wish jewel and in the left a vase, side figure of an altar., anonymous, China, 618 - 906, Tang-dynasty (618-907), bronze (metal), gilding (material), gild...
EditorialPlate from the Fish Service. Designed by Hermann Gradl; German, 1869-1934; Made by K?niglich-Bayerische Porzellan-Manufaktur; Nymphenburg, Germany. Date: 1899. Dimensions: Diam. 24.2 cm (9 1/2 in.). Hard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamels and gild...
EditorialPlate from the Fish Service. Designed by Hermann Gradl; German, 1869-1934; Made by K?niglich-Bayerische Porzellan-Manufaktur; Nymphenburg, Germany. Date: 1899. Dimensions: Diam. 24.2 cm (9 1/2 in.). Hard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamels and gild...
EditorialPanel, 1725/75, France, Lyon, Lyon, Silk, gold gilt strips, gild gilt strips wound around a silk fiber core, plain weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts, 165.1 x 55.2 cm (65 x 21 3/4 in.).
EditorialFringe with Tassels, 1710/74, France, Cotton and gold gilt strip wound around a linen fiber core, warp-faced plain weave with extended weft loop fringe, tassels attached: gold gilt coiled wire and wood forms wrapped with gold gilt strips wrapped around...
EditorialTureen, 1757. S?vres Porcelain Manufactory (French, est. 1740). Soft-paste porcelainwith enamel and gild; overall: 24.2 x 28.3 cm (9 1/2 x 11 1/8 in.).
EditorialPlate from the Fish Service. Designed by Hermann Gradl; German, 1869-1934; Made by K?niglich-Bayerische Porzellan-Manufaktur; Nymphenburg, Germany. Date: 1899. Dimensions: Diam. 24.2 cm (9 1/2 in.). Hard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamels and gild...
EditorialPlate from the Fish Service. Designed by Hermann Gradl; German, 1869-1934; Made by K?niglich-Bayerische Porzellan-Manufaktur; Nymphenburg, Germany. Date: 1899. Dimensions: Diam. 24.2 cm (9 1/2 in.). Hard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamels and gild...
EditorialCup and Saucer. Worcester Porcelain Factory; Worcester, England, founded 1751. Date: 1770-1780. Dimensions: Cup: H. 6.4 cm (2 1/2 in.); diam. 8.3 cm (3 1/4 in.) Saucer: Diam. 12.5 cm (4 15/16 in.). Soft-paste porcelain with polychrome enamels and gild...
EditorialChalice (Ciborium); on the lid eight scenes from the life of the Virgin, on the chalice eight scenes from the Passion of Christ. On the foot four medallions with the symbols of the evangelists. From Constance or Vienna, around 1325. Gilded copper, gild...
EditorialLe calendrier de la cour: tir? des eph?m?rides, pour l'ann?e bissextile mil sept-cent quatre-vingt-quatre: contenant le lieu du soleil, son lever, son coucher, sa d?clinaison: le lever de la lune & son coucher, &c.: avec la naissance des rois, reines, ...
EditorialAutomaton in the form of a chariot pushed by a Chinese attendant and set with a clock, James Cox (British, ca. 1723?1800), 1766, British, London, Case: gold with diamonds and paste jewels set in silver, pearls; Dial: while enamel; Movement: partly gild...
EditorialMummy of Tasheriteniset with mummy mask and other cartonnage elements, also with garland of plants, Ptolemaic Period, 332?30 B.C., From Egypt; Probably from Middle Egypt, Asyut (Lykopolis), Human Remains, linen, mummification material, painted and gild...
EditorialChalice (Ciborium); on the lid eight scenes from the life of the Virgin, on the chalice eight scenes from the Passion of Christ. On the foot four medallions with the symbols of the evangelists. From Constance or Vienna, around 1325. Gilded copper, gild...