EditorialKobe Bryant LA Lakers jacket and Cristiano Ronaldo and Diego Maradonas football shirts among slew of memorabilia hitting auction block form host of sporting greats
EditorialCalisto in Her Retirement. Richard Earlom (British, 1743-1822); after Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599-1641). Date: 1778. Dimensions: 377 ? 340 mm (image); 415 ? 340 mm (plate); 467 ? 615 mm (sheet). Mezzotint over etching in black on cream laid paper. ...
EditorialEltham Palace, London; trees in front; a wall in the centre. A North View of Eltham built by Anthony Bec, Bishop of Durham, and given to Edward the First's Queen as a place of retirement. c. 1750-1770. Pen and black ink with monochrome wash. Source: Ma...
EditorialKinkaku - the Golden Pavilion - is the name given to Rokuon-ji Temple on Kyoko-chi pond in Kyoto. Built as a villa for the retirement of the 3rd Shogun of Ashikaga in 1394, it was made into a Zen-temple according to the Shogun's will. The second and ...
EditorialFisherman's Lodge At Mount Xisai, ?? ?? ????? ?, Song dynasty (960?1279), ca. 1170, China, Handscroll; ink and color on silk, Image (a): 16 in. ? 53 3/4 in. (40.6 ? 136.5 cm), Paintings, Li Jie (Chinese, 1124? before 1197), In this imaginary depiction ...
Editorial? ?? ?? ??, Silkworm, Qing dynasty (1644?1911), dated 1859, China, Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on alum paper, 7 1/4 x 21 in. (18.4 x 53.3 cm), Paintings, Zh? Chao (Chinese, ca. 1823?1889), Zh? Chao left Guangdong to serve as sec...
Editorial?/? ?? ????????? ?, Poem on Retirement, late Yuan (1271?1368)?early Ming (1368?1644) dynasty, China, Handscroll; ink on gold-flecked paper, Image: 10 1/2 x 27 1/4 in. (26.7 x 69.2 cm), Calligraphy, Song Ke (Chinese, 1327?1387), A lover of martial arts ...
EditorialTray, 1835?50, Made in South Yorkshire, Sheffield, England, American, Fused silver plate, 2 3/4 x 36 15/16 x 23 1/8 in. (7 x 93.8 x 58.7 cm); 293 oz. 1 dwt. (9114.4 g), Silver, James Dixon & Sons (British, founded Sheffield, 1806), This tea and coffee ...
EditorialYoung nobleman on horseback From China, Yuan dynasty, dated the 27th year of Zhiyuan 1290 CE Qian Xuan (about 1235-1300) was a scholar-official from Wuxing, Zhejiang Province. After the Mongol conquest of China in 1279, he became a yimin ('lefto...