EditorialPentalphyllon, cinquefoil and white pentaphyllon, Five-leafed, F?nffingerkraut and F?nffblat with white leaves, Fol. 352v, 1590, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Joachim Camerarius: Kreuterbuch desz hochgelehrten unnd weitber?hmten Herrn D. Petri Andreae Matthi...
EditorialDuck hunt The English hunts (series title), tapestry with duck hunt. A kneeling hunter, dressed in red, fires with a musket on a duck flying up from a swamp with cattail. To the right of a prancing fungus is a hunter with a beard. He is dressed in blue...
EditorialFour-leafed clover and common pills, A: Marsilea quadrifolia L. - Four-leafed Kleefarn, B: Pilularia globulifera L. - Spherical Pill herb or common Pillenfarn, Family: 5. Marsiliaceae - Schleimfarngew?chse, plate 16, after p. 44 (Bd., 1), 1886, Otto Wi...
EditorialFour-leafed single-berry, Paris quadrifolia L. - Four-petalled unicorn, Family: 27. Asparagaceae - Asparagus Family, Signed: WM, plate 109, after p. 280 (Vol. 1), M?ller, W., 1886, Otto Wilhelm Thom?: Prof. Dr. Thom?'s Flora von Deutschland, ?sterreich...
EditorialAloe leaves water saw, Stratiotes aloides L. - Aloe-leafed water saw, crab claw or aquatic aloe, Family: 20. Hydrocharitaceae - frog bite family, pl. 39, according to p. 86 (vol. 1), 1886, Otto Wilhelm Thom?: Prof. Dr. Thom?'s Flora von Deutschland, ?s...
EditorialAuger with masks, tendril and pearl cords, The cast round auger has a foot that is constricted at the top, and a round protruding edge, which is adorned with a frieze of acanthus leaves interspersed with stalked triple leaves. The somewhat diabolo-shap...
EditorialRest in the woods The English yachts (series title), Tapestry with hunting party with loot. Left a group of four people: three women, resp. dressed in yellow, blue and floral red and a man in red clothing. In the center is a hunter, hanging with a hero...
EditorialWedding cup, Wedding goblet, The base of the round goblet is made up of a slightly curved bottom edge, decorated with a stamped, repeating pattern of leaves, a profiled straight wall with a block frame, a vaulted section with rolling cartouches and aca...
EditorialSword with scabbard, ?p?e wallonne with authentic scabbard. The iron hilt consists of a hilt knob with a prominent sting knob on it and the fist brace screwed to it, which merges into both the guard rod with a curl at the end and a small, four-leafed f...
EditorialFragment of a tile wall, Fragment of a tile wall consisting of 24 tiles, the top and bottom edges painted with an egg frame in blue. In between a field with alternating rosettes in manganese and an entire tile-filling four-leafed flowers in green and m...
EditorialMonstrans, The object is made up of parts that are driven, beaten, cast, sawn or forged, and attached by soldering, brazing or with the help of pins. The design is poor. Remarkable are the cherub heads on the nodus, the gesle co-curled ornament at the ...
EditorialChalice, The driven and hammered object consists of foot (with the edge), trunk, nodus and cuppa. The lower trunk part, the nodus and the upper part are arranged and riveted around the trunk. The cuppa is attached to the rosette. The foot has six lobes...
EditorialFragment relief velvet from silk, A velvet fabric. On a yellow ground scarce with gold, in red velvet and in some places curled gold, a large pattern consisting of a broad curved band with a leafed stem in it. Note: Not put together but laid on the sur...
EditorialVerdure with animals, Tapestry, small-leafed verdure, with a sparrow hawk attacking a pheasant and a lion leaping a deer, a dog, a hare and three birds, with the Enghien city brand., anonymous, Edingen, c. 1550 - c. 1600, ketting, inslag, tapestry, h 3...
EditorialMonstrans, Upper part (cover) of monstrans. The object is made up of parts that are driven, beaten, cast, sawn or forged and attached by soldering, brazing or with the help of pins. The design is poor. Remarkable are the two rosettes with five-leafed r...
EditorialPorti?re. Designed by Anna G. Lyman (American, active 1880/1900); Executed by Associated Artists, 1833-1907; United States, Illinois, Chicago. Date: 1880-1900. Dimensions: 227 ? 147.3 cm (85 1/2 ? 58 in.). Silk, warp-float faced twill weave with supple...
EditorialVerdure with peacocks, turkeys and deer, Tapestry, small-leafed verdure with animals and a border with female figures that symbolize the five senses., anonymous, Haarlem, c. 1600 - c. 1630, ketting, inslag, tapestry, h 233.0 cm ? w 191.0 cm.
EditorialPorti?re. Designed by Anna G. Lyman (American, active 1880/1900); Executed by Associated Artists, 1833-1907; United States, Illinois, Chicago. Date: 1880-1900. Dimensions: 227 ? 147.3 cm (85 1/2 ? 58 in.). Silk, warp-float faced twill weave with supple...
EditorialScenes from the Nakamura Kabuki Theater. Date/Period: 1684 - 1704. Painting. One from a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on gold-leafed paper. Height: 1,580 mm (62.20 in); Width: 3,840 mm (12.59 ft).
EditorialPorti?re. Designed by Anna G. Lyman (American, active 1880/1900); Executed by Associated Artists, 1833-1907; United States, Illinois, Chicago. Date: 1880-1900. Dimensions: 227 ? 147.3 cm (85 1/2 ? 58 in.). Silk, warp-float faced twill weave with supple...
EditorialDelicate-leafed maxillaria or coconut pie orchid, Maxillariella tenuifolia. (Narrow-leaved maxillaria, Maxillaria tenuifolia). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Nevitt after a botanical illustration by Mrs Augusta Withers from Benjamin Maund and...
Editorial'Salix Latifolia Rotunda'. Round-leafed willow. Experiments and observations on the Cortex Salicis Latifoli?, or Broad-leafed willow bark; illustrated by a coloured plate ... With ... cases demonstrating its superior effieacy above the cinchona, etc. ...
EditorialScenes from the Nakamura Kabuki Theater. Date/Period: 1684 - 1704. Painting. One from a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on gold-leafed paper. Height: 1,580 mm (62.20 in); Width: 3,840 mm (12.59 ft).
EditorialRed and White Poppies, ?????, Momoyama (1573?1615)? Edo (1615?1868) period, early 17th century, Japan, Six-panel folding screen; ink, color, and gold leaf on paper, 65 3/4 x 147 1/2 in. (167.0 x 374.7 cm), Screens, Traditionally attributed to Tosa Mits...
EditorialDelicate-leafed maxillaria or coconut pie orchid, Maxillariella tenuifolia. (Narrow-leaved maxillaria, Maxillaria tenuifolia). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Nevitt after a botanical illustration by Mrs Augusta Withers from Benjamin Maund and...
EditorialFine-leafed water dropwort, Oenanthe aquatica (Oenanthe phellandrium). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialWavy-leafed soap plant, Chlorogalum pomeridianum var. divaricatum (Straggling star of bethlehem, Ornithogalum divaricatum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards' Botanical Register,...
EditorialMizuaoi or oval-leafed pondweed, Monochoria korsakowii. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1889.
EditorialLance-leafed or sword-leaved cymbidium orchid, Cymbidium lancifolium. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his own "Exotic Flora," Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823. Hooker (1785-1865) was...
EditorialAloe-leafed cymbidium orchid, Cymbidium aloifolium (Short-lipped thick-leaved cymbidium, Cymbidium pendulum var. brevilabre). Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plant...
EditorialSmearwort or Round-leafed birthwort, Aristolochia rotunda, native to the Mediterranean. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his ...