EditorialIslamic, Iranian, Bowl Inscribed Increasing Prosperity, Wealth, late 12th/early 13th Century, Composite body with opaque white glaze and over-glaze polychrome painting., H: 9 cm (3 1/2 in.); Diam. 21 cm (8 1/4 in.).
EditorialProsperity of West Friesland, medal struck in response to the poem Westfrisia by Velius, Silver medal. Obverse: woman milking a cow within a circle. Reverse: merchant ship inside border with a circle and four coats of arms, West Friesland, Theodorus Ve...
EditorialFolding fan with thin leather leaf on which a wedding scene in watercolor, on ivory frame with 'm?tal en quatre couleurs' Hymen is led to a marriage altar. The group is surrounded by misusing and sacrificing putti and a man and woman turning towards ea...
EditorialBox with carachters and auspicious symbols, Box of porcelain with lid, painted in underglaze blue and on the glaze aubergine, turquoise, black and gold. The outer wall of the box with lucky symbols (hammer, pouch, coins) and two characters (luck and pr...
EditorialPortrait of Francesco Barbarigo and the personifications Prosperity and Good Stern Numismata virorum illustrium ex Barbadica gente (series title), Pedestal in the form of a cartouche. On top a medallion with the portrait of Francesco Barbarigo on the f...
EditorialSquare Dish with Symbols of Longevity and Immortality (Deer, Bats, Fungus, and Clouds) and the Phrase Tian Zhi Mei Lu (Beauty of Heavenly Prosperity). China. Date: 1279-1368. Dimensions: 2.1 ? 8.4 ? 8.4 cm (7/8 ? 3 5/16 ? 3 5/16 in.). Longquan ware; st...
EditorialAllegory of the unreliability of Spain and the freedom and prosperity of the Seven Provincien, the Dutch Garden, Willem Pietersz. Buytewech, 1615.
EditorialSquare Dish with Symbols of Longevity and Immortality (Deer, Bats, Fungus, and Clouds) and the Phrase Tian Zhi Mei Lu (Beauty of Heavenly Prosperity). China. Date: 1279-1368. Dimensions: 2.1 ? 8.4 ? 8.4 cm (7/8 ? 3 5/16 ? 3 5/16 in.). Longquan ware; st...
EditorialTurkey. Side. The city of Side was founded in the 7th- 6th century BC. It was part of Greek, Ptolomaean and Seleucid empires. Side was incorporated in Roman Empire, province of Lycia et Pamphylia. Time of greatest prosperity under the Empire in the 1st...
EditorialSquare Dish with Symbols of Longevity and Immortality (Deer, Bats, Fungus, and Clouds) and the Phrase Tian Zhi Mei Lu (Beauty of Heavenly Prosperity). China. Date: 1279-1368. Dimensions: 2.1 ? 8.4 ? 8.4 cm (7/8 ? 3 5/16 ? 3 5/16 in.). Longquan ware; st...
EditorialSquare Dish with Symbols of Longevity and Immortality (Deer, Bats, Fungus, and Clouds) and the Phrase Tian Zhi Mei Lu (Beauty of Heavenly Prosperity). China. Date: 1279-1368. Dimensions: 2.1 ? 8.4 ? 8.4 cm (7/8 ? 3 5/16 ? 3 5/16 in.). Longquan ware; st...
EditorialAllegorical fresco depicting goddess Justice surrounded by the figures depicting Justice and Peace and the Sin and Retribution. The other allegorical figures depicts the Order, the Prosperity, the Arts and Sciences, the Glory, the Industries and Hermes...
EditorialJob and His Family Restored to Prosperity. Dated: 1821. Dimensions: overall: 23.4 x 28 cm (9 3/16 x 11 in.). Medium: pen and ink with watercolor over graphite.
EditorialPompeii. House of the Vettii. Lararium. Two Lares, holding a rhyton, flank a genius with a libation bowl and incense box, his head covered for a sacrifice. The snake, associated with the prosperity, approaches an altar. The tympanum shows a patera, an ...
EditorialAllegorical fresco depicting goddess Justice surrounded by the figures depicting Justice and Peace and the Sin and Retribution. The other allegorical figures depicts the Order, the Prosperity, the Arts and Sciences, the Glory, the Industries and Hermes...
EditorialJob and His Family Restored to Prosperity. Dated: 1821. Dimensions: overall: 23.4 x 28 cm (9 3/16 x 11 in.). Medium: pen and ink with watercolor over graphite.
EditorialBox for animal mummy surmounted by a cat, inscribed, Late Period?Ptolemaic Period, 664?30 B.C., From Egypt, Cupreous metal, H. 16.8 cm (6 5/8 in.); W. 8.2 cm (3 1/4 in.); L. 33.8 cm (13 5/16 in.), Bastet was a powerful goddess of Lower Egypt, one who w...
EditorialProsperity of the Family, Edo period (1615?1868), 1790, Japan, Two volumes; ink and color on paper, Each: 8 1/2 ? 6 ? 1/4 in. (21.6 ? 15.2 ? 0.6 cm), Illustrated Books, Katsukawa Shuncho (Japanese, active ca. 1783?95).
EditorialTrade card for George A. Schastey, 1876?79, Made in New York, New York, United States, American, Ink on paper, 2 1/4 ? 3 3/4 in. (5.7 ? 9.5 cm), Ephemera, This two-sided trade card captures the fashionable Aesthetic style of George A. Schastey?s firm a...
Editorial? ??? ?? ??, Peony, Qing dynasty (1644?1911), dated 1862, China, Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on gold-flecked paper, 7 x 20 3/4 in. (17.8 x 52.7 cm), Paintings, Zhao Zhiqian (Chinese, 1829?1884), Zhao Zhiqian focused his commitme...
EditorialRing with Seated Lion, 12th century, Attributed to Iran, Gold; inlaid with black organic compound, H. 7/8 in. (2.2 cm), Jewelry, This ring with molded lion and the niello inscription?which employs a black organic compound?of the words ?glory? and ?pros...
Editorial???????, Imperial Prosperity: Ceremony in the Eastern Capital (Miyo no sakae azuma no kewai), Meiji period (1868?1912), ca. 1900, Japan, Triptych of polychrome woodblock prints; ink and color on paper, Image: 14 5/8 x 29 in. (37.1 x 73.7 cm), Prints, Y...
EditorialBracelet, 11th?16th century, Mali, Inland Niger Delta region, Djenn? peoples, Copper alloy, Diameter 3 inches, Metal-Ornaments, A copper-alloy adornment, this bracelet was created in the ancient center of Jenne. Jenne's central location on numerous piv...
EditorialBracelet, 11th?16th century, Mali, Inland Niger Delta region, Djenn? peoples, Copper alloy, Diameter 4-7/8 in., Metal-Ornaments, A copper-alloy adornment, this armlet, was created in the ancient center of Jenne. Jenne's central location on numerous piv...
EditorialLararium. 4th style wallf fresco. Scene of a Genius, assited by a Camillus, sacrificing at an altar as a musician plays de tibia and a slave approaches driving a sacrificial pig. Beneath the scene of serpents, bringers of prosperity and abundance. Pomp...
EditorialAllegory of the unreliability of Spain and the freedom and prosperity of the Seven Provincien, the Dutch Garden, Willem Pietersz. Buytewech, 1615.
EditorialAllegorical fresco depicting goddess Justice surrounded by the figures depicting Justice and Peace and the Sin and Retribution. The other allegorical figures depicts the Order, the Prosperity, the Arts and Sciences, the Glory, the Industries and Hermes...
EditorialRecording an event, from 'Album of Scenes from Daily Life', late Choson dynasty, 19th century. The central figure in purple robes can be seen writing on a long scroll of parchment. The late Choson period was a period of relative prosperity in Korea. Ch...
EditorialHarris Papyrus, representation of the reign of Pharaoh Ramses III, his donations to temples, his wars, his expeditions to the mines and Egypt's prosperity; his death and the advent of Ramses IV. From Thebes, 1184-1153 BCE.