EditorialReading woman, Woman with a book in her hand looks around at a large object next to her. This could be an incense burner, on which the older couple J? and Uba are depicted. They represent a long life and marital happiness. With one poem., Totoya Hokkei...
EditorialPlate with an allegorical image and the coat of arms of the Geelvinck and Graafland families, Porcelain plate, painted on the glaze in black and gold. A bridal couple is depicted on the shelf under a dome. They stand in front of an altar with two pigeo...
EditorialFolding fan, consisting of a single sheet of thin leather on which with a gouache a Gods meal (?) Surrounded by a border with red, blue and gold quinoiser motifs, on a frame of ivory ajour and carved in relief, In a garden with many water features, nin...
EditorialFolding fan with a sheet of paper on which in watercolor a central medallion with Diana and her nymphs resting by a river, mounted on a frame of ajour and embossed ivory with 'metal and quatre couleurs', The central medallion is filled with a particula...
EditorialThe Actors Ichimura Uzaemon IX as a Male Fox Disguised as the Sake Seller Iseya (left) and Nakamura Tomijuro I as a Female Fox Disguised as the Beancake Peddler Hyugaya, in the Dance Sequence "Myoto-zake Kawaranu Nakanaka" (Everlasting Harmony of the M...
EditorialThe Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Onmaya Kisanda Dressed as Kakubei the Lion Dancer (Kakubei-jishi) (right) and Segawa Kikunojo III as Shizuka Gozen (left), in the Dance Sequence "Myoto-zake Kawaranu Nakanaka" (Everlasting Harmony of the Marital Cup), fr...
EditorialAllegory of Marital Strife. Pieter Serwouters (Flemish, 1586-1657); after David Vinckboons I (Flemish, 1576-1632). Date: 1607. Dimensions: 171 ? 220 mm (image); plate mark not visible; 172 ? 220 mm (sheet). Etching on cream laid paper. Origin: Flanders.
Editorial? ???(??), Comb Tops, Tang dynasty (618?907), 8th century, China, Gold, L. 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm); Gr. W. 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm), Jewelry, These comb tops feature pairs of mandarin ducks?symbols of marital fidelity?in flight and standing.