EditorialFolding fan with double sheet of paper with a question and answer game printed on the front with red ink on a padouk and ebony frame. These etched fan blades were printed in large numbers and mounted on simple wooden frames.. Some variation was obtaine...
EditorialStrip of needle lace with wavy, curling tendril with various flowers, Strip of natural-colored needle lace: Venetian rose lace. The pattern consists of a wavy branch with curling flower stems and leaves. There are many larger and smaller flowers on the...
EditorialKinko echizen, Omori, Yoshikiyo, artist, [between 1700 and 1704], 1 print : woodcut ; 24.9 x 34.7 cm., Kinko and Echizen. Two women, one seated writing a letter, the other pulling back the hair of a man sitting in front of a mirror, possibly an actor a...
EditorialKinko echizen, Omori, Yoshikiyo, artist, [between 1700 and 1704], 1 print : woodcut ; 24.9 x 34.7 cm., Kinko and Echizen. Two women, one seated writing a letter, the other pulling back the hair of a man sitting in front of a mirror, possibly an actor a...
Editorial?douard Manet: Tarring the Boat (Le Bateau goudronn?), ?douard Manet, July?August 1873, Oil on canvas, The scene depicts a beach in Berck-sur-Mer, France, a fishing village on the Channel coast that ?douard Manet visited with his family in 1873. Withou...
Editorial?douard Manet: Tarring the Boat (Le Bateau goudronn?), ?douard Manet, July?August 1873, Oil on canvas, The scene depicts a beach in Berck-sur-Mer, France, a fishing village on the Channel coast that ?douard Manet visited with his family in 1873. Withou...
EditorialA doctor applying electricity to the corpse of a murderer. 'Le docteur Ure galvanisant le corps de l'assassin Clydsdale'. Les merveilles de la Science, ou description populaire des inventions modernes. Paris, 1867 - 1870. Source: 8765.g.15, figure 333....
EditorialLip salvage'. A mermaid seems to be applying make-up whilst being observed by a diver. The bystander. London : The Bystander, 1903-1940. Source: Z.C.9.d.560, 7 September 1927, page 440.
EditorialBronze specillum (probe), 1st?2nd century A.D., Roman, Bronze, Other: 4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm), Bronzes, Such instruments have been found in sets of Roman surgical instruments and may have been used as probes. However, it is believed that they also were use...
EditorialBronze specillum (probe), 1st?2nd century A.D., Roman, Bronze, Other: 4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm), Bronzes, Such instruments have been found in sets of Roman surgical instruments and may have been used as probes. However, it is believed that they also were use...
EditorialPugahm Myo: Thapinyu Pagoda, August 20?24, 1855, Image: 25.1 x 34.5 cm (9 7/8 x 13 9/16 in.), Photographs, Linnaeus Tripe (British, Devonport (Plymouth Dock) 1822?1902 Devonport), Here the Thapinyu Pagoda, the tallest structure at Pugahm Myo, rises tow...
EditorialGlass serving dish, Early Imperial, Second half of the 1st?2nd century A.D., Roman, Glass, greenish colorless; cast and cut, Without handles: 1 3/4 ? 8 5/8 in. (4.4 ? 21.9 cm), Glass, Colourless with green tinge., Rim ground smooth; horizontal border w...
EditorialBowl with ?Oil-Spot? Design, Jin dynasty (1115?1234), 12th?13th century, China, Stoneware with iron-oxide slip and glaze (Cizhou-type ware), H. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm); Diam. 3 in. (7.6 cm), Ceramics, ?Oil-spot? decoration is created by applying an iron-ric...
EditorialThe Iron Forge between Dolgelli and Barmouth in Merioneth Shire, Plate 6 of XII Views in North Wales, 1776, Etching and aquatint printed in brown ink, sheet: 8 3/8 x 11 3/4 in. (21.3 x 29.8 cm), Prints, Paul Sandby (British, baptized Nottingham 1731?18...
EditorialBlack and Blue Painted Bowl, early 13th century, Made in Iran, probably Kashan, Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze, H. 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm), Ceramics, The whiteness of stonepaste provided a canvas upon which potters could paint pigmen...
EditorialKinko echizen, Omori, Yoshikiyo, artist, [between 1700 and 1704], 1 print : woodcut ; 24.9 x 34.7 cm., Kinko and Echizen. Two women, one seated writing a letter, the other pulling back the hair of a man sitting in front of a mirror, possibly an actor a...
EditorialKinko echizen, Omori, Yoshikiyo, artist, [between 1700 and 1704], 1 print : woodcut ; 24.9 x 34.7 cm., Kinko and Echizen. Two women, one seated writing a letter, the other pulling back the hair of a man sitting in front of a mirror, possibly an actor a...