EditorialMeasuring instrument, possibly for measuring courses, consisting of a round wooden disc with a rotating pointer on a lead axis, Measuring instrument (course meter) consisting of a round wooden disc with a rotating pointer on a lead ash. On the top and ...
EditorialBaron Chass? cachet, Copper stamp on wooden handle with thick, flat knob. The stamp is very simple, surrounded by one line and apparently engraved by hand. Inscription, stamp area: Colonel / Chass?, David Hendrik baron Chass?, Netherlands (possibly), 1...
EditorialLantern Slide - Umbrella Ferns, Hardys Creek, Victoria, Date Unknown, Black and white image of umbrella ferns found in the Hardys Creek area of Victoria, photographed by Thomas H. Tregellas. one of many forming the A.J. Campbell Collection held by Muse...
EditorialTobacco jar, made as a reminder of the award on January 26, 1787 by the Academy Royale et Patriotique of Valence, of an honorary prize to Adriaan Paets van Troostwijk (1752-1837) and Cornelis Kraijenhoff (1758-1840 ), The square pot has a separate lid ...
EditorialShield Grip, late 4th century, Vermand, Gallo-Roman (found in Vermand, France), Iron, silver, L. 14 5/16 in. (36.4 cm), Miscellaneous-Ironwork, The shield was carried by the grip, which was riveted across the hollow center of the shield on the inner si...
EditorialTerracotta askos (flask with a spout and handle over the top), Hellenistic, ca. 330?300 B.C., Native Italic, Daunian, Canosan, Terracotta, H. 13 1/8 in. (33.4 cm), Vases, This distinctive ware was produced in the larger area of Canosa from roughly the ...
EditorialA Roman Landscape with Figures, probably 1630s, Oil on copper, Diameter 16 in. (40.6 cm), Paintings, Goffredo Wals (German, Cologne, born ca. 1590?95, died 1638?40 Calabria), Wals was a key figure in the generation of painters who took the Roman countr...
EditorialGlass perfume bottle, Early Imperial, 1st century A.D., Roman, Glass; blown, 1 3/8 in. ? 1 in. (3.5 ? 2.5 cm), Glass, Miniature perfume bottle Colorless with pale green tinge. Rim folded out, over, and in; cylindrical neck, with broad, tooled-in area a...
EditorialMonumental Bodhisattva Head, 5th century, Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara), Stucco, H. 19 3/4 in. (50.2 cm); W. 10 in. (25.4 cm); D. 10 in. (25.4 cm), Sculpture, This head comes from a scupture that would have been more than twelve feet tall and l...