Editorial***EMBARGOED UNTIL 9am EST on TUESDAY 21 DEC*** The Beatles seen in rare and newly-discovered photos in Ringo Starrs upcoming memoir, set for 2022 release
EditorialInlay, rosette, Ptolemaic Period?Roman Period, 100 BC?100 AD, From Egypt, Glass, H. 1.1 ? W. 1.1 cm (7/16 ? 7/16 in.), A mosaic glass technique allowed multiples of an image to be created: a figural or design composition was made by bundling colored gl...
EditorialA magnolia. Hortus Europ? Americanus: or, a Collection of 85 curious trees and shrubs, the produce of North America Together with observations on their culture Adorn'd with 63 figures on 17 copperplates, etc. J. Millan: London, 1767. Source: 452.f.14,...
EditorialInlay, rosette, Ptolemaic Period?Roman Period, 100 BC?100 AD, From Egypt, Glass, H. 1.1 ? W. 1.1 cm (7/16 ? 7/16 in.), A mosaic glass technique allowed multiples of an image to be created: a figural or design composition was made by bundling colored gl...
EditorialGlass stirring rod, Early Imperial, 1st century A.D., Roman, Glass; drawn and tooled, H. 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm); diameter 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm), Glass, Stirring rod: translucent cobalt blue with opaque white trails. Cylindrical rod, slightly bent at top end,...
EditorialHelmet, late 16th century, Turkish, Copper alloy (tombak), gold, leather, textile, H. including nasal 14 1/4 in. (36.2 cm); H. excluding nasal 9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm); W. 9 in. (22.9 cm); D. 11 in. (27.9 cm); Wt. 2 lb. 13.7 oz. (1295.6 g), Helmets, This he...
EditorialCenter table, ca. 1780?85, Russian, Tula, Steel, silver, gilt copper, gilt brass, basswood; replaced mirror glass, 27 1/2 ? 22 ? 15 in. (69.9 ? 55.9 ? 38.1 cm), Metalwork-Steel, From 1712, when the imperial armory in the town of Tula, south of Moscow, ...