EditorialLantern Slide - Soldiers with Machine Guns in Front of Tents, 1914-1918 (Damaged), Three soldiers with their Vickers machine guns and kits outside white tents. Location unknown. Slide is cracked in upper corner. The British Army established a Machine G...
EditorialPunchbowl Punch bowl with mounting, An interior scene is shown on both sides of the spherical porcelain pot. On one side are depicted two slender female figures, who hand over a wrapped qin (lute) to a child, a performance from the Chinese story The Hi...
EditorialBaluster wall vase with two figures in a landscape, Baluster-shaped porcelain wall vase with flat back, short, printed body and two modeled, ring-shaped handles, painted on the glaze in blue, green, red, pink and black. The vase is covered with an appl...
EditorialStair Riser with Marine Deities or Boatmen, ca. 1st century, Pakistan (ancient region Gandhara (Swat Valley?), Serpentinite, H. 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm); W. 17 in. (43.2 cm), Sculpture, This sculpture and the triangular side relief are part of a set of twen...
EditorialMirror with Four Nipples and Eight Animals, 300. China, Western Jin dynasty (265-316). Bronze; diameter: 19.6 cm (7 11/16 in.); overall: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.); rim: 1 cm (3/8 in.).
EditorialMirror with Quatrefoil, Paired Phoenixes, and Auspicious Animals, early 1st Century - early 4th Century. China, Eastern Han dynasty (25-220) - Western Jin dynasty (265-316). Bronze; diameter: 7.7 cm (3 1/16 in.); overall: 0.8 cm (5/16 in.); rim: 0.2 cm...
EditorialMirror with Four Nipples and Four Birds, late 3rd Century BC - early 1st Century. China, Western Han dynasty (202 BC-AD 9). Bronze; diameter: 6.2 cm (2 7/16 in.); overall: 1 cm (3/8 in.); rim: 0.6 cm (1/4 in.).
EditorialMirror with Paired Phoenixes, early 1st Century - early 4th Century. China, Eastern Han dynasty (25-220) - Western Jin dynasty (265-316). Bronze; diameter: 9.8 cm (3 7/8 in.); overall: 1 cm (3/8 in.); rim: 0.4 cm (3/16 in.).
EditorialMirror with Quatrefoil, Paired Phoenixes, and Auspicious Animals, early 3rd -early 4th century. China, Three Kingdoms (221-280) - Western Jin dynasty (265-316). Bronze; diameter: 18.6 cm (7 5/16 in.); overall: 1.2 cm (1/2 in.); rim: 0.4 cm (3/16 in.).
EditorialBronze fibula (safety pin), Geometric, ca. 8th century B.C., Cypriot, Bronze, length 3 5/8in. (9.2cm), Bronzes, Bow bent up at an angle, knob on top slightly flattened with a small collar; head formed by a spiral of one turn. Fibulas of this type are p...
EditorialStair Riser with Marine Deities or Boatmen, ca. 1st century, Pakistan (ancient region Gandhara (Swat Valley?), Serpentinite, H. 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm); W. 17 in. (43.2 cm), Sculpture, This sculpture and the triangular side relief are part of a set of twen...
EditorialTwo Bottles in the Form of Pomegranates, New Kingdom, Ramesside, Dynasty 19?20, ca. 1295?1070 B.C., From Egypt, Glass, opaque, Large jar: H. 12 cm (4 3/4 in); diam. 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in), The pomegranate did not arrive in Egypt until the beginning of the N...
EditorialBronze fibula (safety pin), Geometric, ca. 8th century B.C., Cypriot, Bronze, length 3 5/8in. (9.2cm), Bronzes, Bow bent up at an angle, knob on top slightly flattened with a small collar; head formed by a spiral of one turn. Fibulas of this type are p...
EditorialPounder, Neolithic Period, Buto?Merimda?Maadi, ca. 4500?4000 B.C., From Egypt, Western Delta, Merimda Beni Salama, Vienna Academy of Science excavations, 1927?29, Quartz.
EditorialBasin, Samuel Margas Jr. (British, active 1714?33), ca. 1721, British, London, Silver gilt, Overall (confirmed): 2 1/4 in., 319 oz. 6.4 dwg. (5.7 cm, 9.932kg), Metalwork-Silver, Samuel Margas Jr. (British, active 1714?33), This massive ewer and dish wa...
EditorialSample of Grain from Merimda, Neolithic Period?Predynastic Period, ca. 4500?4000 B.C., From Egypt, Western Delta, Merimda Beni Salama, Vienna Academy of Science excavations 1929?30, Burned Grain.
EditorialPounder, Neolithic Period, Buto?Merimda?Maadi, ca. 4500?4000 B.C., From Egypt, Western Delta, Merimda Beni Salama, Vienna Academy of Science excavations, 1927?29, Quartz.