EditorialThree tile panels with Autumn, Summer and Spring, Tile panel with blue painted representation of one of the four seasons: spring, Tile panel of twenty-eight tiles (7 x 4) with a blue-painted representation of one of the four seasons, spring, with a wom...
EditorialBronze nose piece from a horse's trappings, Late Imperial, 4th century A.D., Roman, Bronze, L. 10 5/16 in. (26.2 cm.), Bronzes, The decoration is divided into three tiers. In the uppermost, a swan (which may allude to the myth of Leda) approaches a wom...
EditorialSink bowl, multicolored painted with animals and love pairs, Hemispherical sink bowl of painted porcelain. The bowl is painted on the inside with a circle within which a landscape with houses and on the wall with a ground with trees, a fence with a wom...
EditorialSense of Sight, Brush and tempera on linen, Panel of natural colored linen plain cloth painted in polychrome tempera, showing one of the series of five senses. Figures of a man and woman seated at left. Winged putto at center offers a mirror to the wom...
EditorialDesign for Clock, Lefebvre Manufactory, Tournai, Graphite, pen and black ink, brush and yellow and red-brown watercolor on cream laid paper, Base on cushion feet, front panel represents Cupid, his wings being clipped by four girls. Above, a dial, a wom...
EditorialPlate 7, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues, Johann Theodor de Bry, German, 1561 - 1623, Engraving on paper, Pendant design with scroll and floral motifs and hanging pear-shaped pearls. Central Image: Fortitude, a nude wom...
EditorialGustav Heinrich Wolff, portrait of a woman with a red headscarf (from the Russian Sketchbook), vellum, drawing, pastel chalk on vellum, total: height: 14.5 cm; width: 11.4 cm, dated (by someone else?) on verso May 1932, drawing, graphics, sketches, wom...
EditorialSmall knife of iron with brass handle that has been pushed over the iron. Handle topped with button. Blade decorated on both sides over whole length with engraved representations. At the widest part on one side a man and woman in close embrace, the wom...
EditorialSink bowl, multicolored painted with animals and love pairs, Hemispherical sink bowl of painted porcelain. The bowl is painted on the inside with a circle within which a landscape with houses and on the wall with a ground with trees, a fence with a wom...
EditorialRebekah and Eliezer at the well, Ronde, lead plaque. In the foreground Rebekah reaches out to Eliezer the jug of spring water, through which gesture Eliezer recognizes in her the woman destined for his master's son Isaac. Behind her the well with a wom...
EditorialMoses and the Israelites singing. Old English Illustrated Hexateuch. England [Canterbury]; second quarter of 11th centu. (Whole folio) Exodus 15, 1-21. Upper drawing; Moses and the Israelites sing a song of triumph to the Lord. Below; the Israelite wom...
EditorialCoronation of Joseph, Archduke of Austria, to Roman King, Wooden drafts wheel, Obverse: bust of man with laurel wreath to the right, below that are two eagles that hold up cloth with inscription within the inscription. Reverse: Joseph, crowned by a wom...
EditorialSink bowl, multicolored painted with animals and love pairs, Hemispherical sink bowl of painted porcelain. The bowl is painted on the inside with a circle within which a landscape with houses and on the wall with a ground with trees, a fence with a wom...
EditorialFigure of the dismissed maid, Porcelain sculpture painted on enamel and gold enamel. The image represents the dismissed maid. The fired maid dries her eyes with her apron, while she is standing in a chair with a suitcase under her arm in front of a wom...
EditorialMedal awarded to Christaan Pit by the City of Leiden on the occasion of the defense of his dissertation at the University of Leiden on November 28, 1674 (so-called promotion with the hood), Minted round gold medal with link in the eye, vz: standing wom...
EditorialCoronation from Victoria Alexandrine to Queen of Great Britain, Obverse: bust of woman with crown and scepter inside inscription. Reverse: Victoria crown, scepter and apple, walking under canopy, worn by three crowned men, behind it are two crowned wom...
EditorialThree tile panels with Autumn, Summer and Spring, Tile panel with blue painted representation of one of the four seasons: spring, Tile panel of twenty-eight tiles (7 x 4) with a blue-painted representation of one of the four seasons, spring, with a wom...
EditorialRebekah and Eliezer at the well, Ronde, lead plaque. In the foreground Rebekah reaches out to Eliezer the jug of spring water, through which gesture Eliezer recognizes in her the woman destined for his master's son Isaac. Behind her the well with a wom...
EditorialTerracotta loutrophoros (ceremonial vase for water), Archaic, late 6th century B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; black-figure, H. 18 13/16 in. (47.8 cm), Vases, On the body, obverse, six women at a bier; reverse, five men, On the neck, obverse, three wom...
EditorialSir John Simon. Votes for women. London, June 6, 1913. Sir John Simon (shopwalker): Forward, if you please, Mr. Asquith, with social reform for these gentlemen voters. The women can wait- they've no votes to pay for it'. Image taken from Votes for wom...
EditorialMoses and the Israelites singing. Old English Illustrated Hexateuch. England [Canterbury]; second quarter of 11th centu. (Whole folio) Exodus 15, 1-21. Upper drawing; Moses and the Israelites sing a song of triumph to the Lord. Below; the Israelite wom...
EditorialBronze nose piece from a horse's trappings, Late Imperial, 4th century A.D., Roman, Bronze, L. 10 5/16 in. (26.2 cm.), Bronzes, The decoration is divided into three tiers. In the uppermost, a swan (which may allude to the myth of Leda) approaches a wom...
EditorialTerracotta loutrophoros (ceremonial vase for water), Archaic, late 6th century B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; black-figure, H. 18 13/16 in. (47.8 cm), Vases, On the body, obverse, six women at a bier; reverse, five men, On the neck, obverse, three wom...
EditorialBronze nose piece from a horse's trappings, Late Imperial, 4th century A.D., Roman, Bronze, L. 10 5/16 in. (26.2 cm.), Bronzes, The decoration is divided into three tiers. In the uppermost, a swan (which may allude to the myth of Leda) approaches a wom...
EditorialStanding female worshiper, Early Dynastic IIIa, ca. 2600?2500 B.C., Mesopotamia, Nippur, Sumerian, Limestone, inlaid with shell and lapis lazuli, H. 9 13/16 x W. 3 3/8 x D. 2 1/8 in. (24.9 x 8.5 x 5.4 cm), Stone-Sculpture, This statue of a standing wom...