EditorialPitcher, Stoneware, Embossed decoration on pitcher. Hounds in purple, yellow and white landscape. Beneath spout and loop, feathered handle, a shell framed with purple. Open spout and rimmed with metallic purple., England, 18thmid-19th century, ceramics...
EditorialSampler, Medium: silk embroidery on cotton foundation Technique: embroidered in cross and eyelet stitches on plain weave foundation Label: cotton embroidered with silk in cross and eyelet stitches, Square sampler with a grape vine border, ANNO 1831 at ...
EditorialSampler, Mary Fitz, (American, born 1807), Medium: silk and human hair embroidery, cotton foundation, silk ribbon Technique: embroidered in cross, half cross, satin, stem, rococo, feather and buttonhole stitches on plain weave foundation, Central scene...
EditorialPlate painted with a crowned hat and the text: beneath the hoot is hiding // malice and goet, Faience plate. Multicolored painted with a crowned duke's hat and the text: UNDER DEN HOET SCHUILT // KWAAT, EN, GOET, head-gear: tricorn (men's clothes), ano...
Editorials-Hertogenbosch, tools medal at the centenary of the capture of the city, Silver Medal. Front: view of the city from the south side under pennant with inscription, in foreground: St. Antonieschans and the street road, beneath it crossed trumpet and Mer...
EditorialSaucer-dish with two ladies beneath a prunus in a fenced garden, Porcelain dish, with modeled tulip motif in the wall and scalloped edge, painted on the glaze in red and gold. On the shelf a medallion with two ladies (long lines) under a prunus tree in...
EditorialSaucer dish with two ladies beneath a prunus in a fenced garden, Porcelain dish, with a modeled tulip motif in the wall and scalloped edge, painted on the glaze in red and gold. On the shelf a medallion with two ladies (long lines) under a prunus tree ...
EditorialTerracotta lekythos (oil flask), Classical, ca. 460?450 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 15 in. (38.1 cm), Vases, Obverse, Apollo with kithara (lyre) and palm tree. Leto was said to have given birth to Apollo beneath a date palm on the Cy...
EditorialLimestone fragment of an altar with a relief, Late Archaic?Early Classical, early 5th century B.C., Cypriot, Limestone, Overall: 9 1/4 x 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (23.5 x 8.3 x 10.8 cm), Cesnola Inscriptions, A bearded figure, wearing a conical cap beneath whi...
EditorialBronze phallic amulet, Imperial, 1st century A.D., Roman, Bronze, W. 3 1/8 in. (7.95 cm.), Bronzes, This pendant is in the form of a double phallus with a phallus and scrotum hanging beneath the very large central ring. Its form is common for Roman pha...
EditorialLion head amulet, Late Period?Ptolemaic Period, 664?30 B.C., From Egypt, Faience, H. 2.9 ? W. 2.5 ? D. 1.1 cm (2.9 ? 2.5 ? 1.1 cm), This lion head amulet exhibits changes in the representation of lions that appeared during the later first millennium BC...
EditorialLion head amulet, Late Period?Ptolemaic Period, 664?30 B.C., From Egypt, Faience, l. 1.6 cm. (5/8 in.) ? w. 2.9 cm (1 1/8 in.), This lion head amulet exhibits changes in the representation of lions that appeared during the later first millennium BC. Th...
EditorialBronze phallic amulet, Imperial, 1st century A.D., Roman, Bronze, W. 3 1/8 in. (7.95 cm.), Bronzes, This pendant is in the form of a double phallus with a phallus and scrotum hanging beneath the very large central ring. Its form is common for Roman pha...
EditorialFragment of a limestone head of the ?Triple Geryon? (?), Archaic or Classical, 6th or 5th century B.C., Cypriot, Limestone, Overall: H.:6 1/4 x W.:3 x D.:2 1/2 in. (15.9 x 7.6 x 6.4 cm), Stone Sculpture, The face of the helmeted head is fragmentary. Th...
EditorialLimestone fragment of an altar with a relief, Late Archaic?Early Classical, early 5th century B.C., Cypriot, Limestone, Overall: 9 1/4 x 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (23.5 x 8.3 x 10.8 cm), Cesnola Inscriptions, A bearded figure, wearing a conical cap beneath whi...
EditorialFragment of a limestone head of the ?Triple Geryon? (?), Archaic or Classical, 6th or 5th century B.C., Cypriot, Limestone, Overall: H.:6 1/2 x W.:3 x D.:2 1/4 in. (16.5 x 7.6 x 5.7 cm), Stone Sculpture, The helmeted head is slanted toward its right. T...