EditorialServers carry platters of traditional mansaf, a milky mountain of mutton and rice, to guests at a wedding party in the central Jordanian town of Karak, June 3, 2022. (Laura Boushnak/The New York Times)
EditorialWorkers sanitize the Roman numerals for Super Bowl 55 at the Super Bowl Experience fan event on Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, in Tampa, Fla. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
EditorialPrint, Black ink on rolled paper, Horizontal rectangle: In the foreground, a banner, and above a frieze of the back of an audience. On stage, a procession of servants carrying banquet platters on their heads. A banquet table with seated guests in the b...
EditorialPair of platters, Silver-plated brass, Oval bowls with fluted cavetto. Flat marly with raised edge and a decorated with single and symmetrically opposed acanthus leaves., France, ca. 1730, metalwork, Decorative Arts, Pair of platters.
EditorialFootball fans gather at the NFL Experience fan event on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, during the lead up to the Super Bowl in Tampa, Fla. (Zack Wittman/The New York Times)
EditorialBacchic rite. Women offering figs on platters to Bacchus, and seated woman in an initiation rite accompanied by a genius of Ceres (boy with wings). Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rom...
EditorialBacchic rite. Women offering figs on platters to Bacchus, and seated woman in an initiation rite accompanied by a genius of Ceres (boy with wings). Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rom...
EditorialBacchic rite. Women offering figs on platters to Bacchus, and seated woman in an initiation rite accompanied by a genius of Ceres (boy with wings). Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rom...
EditorialUnweit Visp in Wallis / Thomas Platters Geburts Ort. Dated: 1799. Dimensions: plate: 15.2 x 20.5 cm (6 x 8 1/16 in.) sheet: 20.2 x 25.7 cm (7 15/16 x 10 1/8 in.). Medium: etching with aquatint, printed in brown ink, on laid paper.
EditorialUnweit Visp in Wallis / Thomas Platters Geburts Ort. Dated: 1799. Dimensions: plate: 15.2 x 20.5 cm (6 x 8 1/16 in.) sheet: 20.2 x 25.7 cm (7 15/16 x 10 1/8 in.). Medium: etching with aquatint, printed in brown ink, on laid paper.
EditorialPlatter with a Fish, 4th?5th century, Late Roman, Bronze, silver overlaid, Overall: 7/8 x 15 1/16 x 7 3/16 in. (2.2 x 38.2 x 18.3 cm), Metalwork-Bronze, In his great encyclopedia, the first-century Roman writer Pliny reports that tin plating, as seen o...
EditorialPlatter with a Fish, 4th?5th century, Late Roman, Bronze, silver overlaid, Overall: 7/8 x 15 1/16 x 7 3/16 in. (2.2 x 38.2 x 18.3 cm), Metalwork-Bronze, In his great encyclopedia, the first-century Roman writer Pliny reports that tin plating, as seen o...
EditorialBacchic rite. Women offering figs on platters to Bacchus, and seated woman in an initiation rite accompanied by a genius of Ceres (boy with wings). Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rom...