EditorialCape, Medium: S-spun tussah silk embroidery, Z-spun cotton foundation Technique: embroidered in chain and back stitch with French knots on two layers of plain weave; inner layer of unspun cotton Label: cotton embroidered with tussah silk in chain and b...
EditorialEmbroidery, Medium: silk, metal thread on linen Tecnhnique: running sittch embroidery and couched metal thread, Linen, embroidered in red silk and metal thread. Pattern of detached motifs in alternate rows; one row a stylized plant evolved from fleur-d...
EditorialCurtain paper, Block-printed paper, embossed, distemper paints,, Called Anglo-Chinese. Birds, butterflies and bees among various blossoms: magnolia, gardenia, chrysanthemum and pomegranate. The black outline is printed from a key block with metal raise...
EditorialCape, Medium: S-spun tussah silk embroidery, Z-spun cotton foundation Technique: embroidered in chain and back stitch with French knots on two layers of plain weave; inner layer of unspun cotton Label: cotton embroidered with tussah silk in chain and b...
EditorialDado, Block-printed on handmade paper, Paper with printed imitation marble in tan and brown on light tan, imitating dado panel with black outline, blue imitation marble framing panel., USA or England, 18001825, Wallcoverings, Dado.
EditorialFragment of a vessel, glass, millefiori technique, Total: Height: 2.70 cm; Width: 2.50 cm, container, storage, kitchen work, floral ornaments, Early Imperial Period, A slight curvature of the glass fragment allows the assignment to a vessel, possibly a...
EditorialTerracotta lekythos (oil flask), Classical, ca. 480 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; black-figure, white-ground, 9 5/16 x 3 1/4 in. (23.7 x 8.3 cm), Vases, Dionysos (god of wine) with a satyr and goat. The decoration on the body is executed in a combina...
EditorialPot with two twisted ears, decorated with star-shaped ornaments, pointed leaves, fan shapes and spirals, Cylindrical pot of multi-colored majolica. The pot has two turned ears. On the belly is a star-shaped ornament painted on both sides consisting of ...
EditorialSaucer-dish with two birds and a bouquet of flowers above a house near flowering plants, Porcelain dish with lobed edge, painted in underglaze blue and on the glaze red, green and gold. On the front in underglaze blue a little house with on both sides ...
EditorialWater bowl Dish, october, decorated with flowers and lobster ornament, Dish of silver. The dish has a corrugated outline and eight high swellings on which flowers are driven in relief, bordered and separated by dry and hardened lobe ornament. The sligh...
EditorialTerracotta lekythos (oil flask), Classical, ca. 480 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; black-figure, white-ground, 9 5/16 x 3 1/4 in. (23.7 x 8.3 cm), Vases, Dionysos (god of wine) with a satyr and goat. The decoration on the body is executed in a combina...
EditorialField of four tiles with pattern of leaves, Field of four tiles (2 x 2) each with multicolored (blue, yellow and orange-brown) painted leaf patterns within geometric outline., anonymous, Netherlands, c. 1560 - c. 1600, earthenware, tin glaze, h 26.5 cm...
EditorialTerracotta lekythos (oil flask), Classical, ca. 480 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; black-figure, white-ground, 9 5/16 x 3 1/4 in. (23.7 x 8.3 cm), Vases, Dionysos (god of wine) with a satyr and goat. The decoration on the body is executed in a combina...