EditorialLathyris, Cataputia minor, Spring grains, Fol. 423v, 1590, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Joachim Camerarius: Kreuterbuch desz hochgelehrten unnd weitber?hmten Herrn D. Petri Andreae Matthioli. Franckfort am Mayn: [Feyrabendt], 1590.
EditorialYarn dyers, grains and Rex tinctorium coccigera, Scarlet, Fol. 359r, 1590, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Joachim Camerarius: Kreuterbuch desz hochgelehrten unnd weitber?hmten Herrn D. Petri Andreae Matthioli. Franckfort am Mayn: [Feyrabendt], 1590.
EditorialWeighing ores, metals and aggregates, The largest scale for weighing of lead and aggregates, the middle one for weighing of ores and metals and the small one in casing for gold and silver grains, woodcut, p. 207, (Liber septimus), Manuel, Hans Rudolf (...
EditorialVarious species of sea snails, sea trumpets, sea horns, Classe III, Pl. XXXIV, Fig. 221: Trumpet de mer, ? petites tubercules, Figs. 222-225: Cornets de mer de diff?rente esp?ce, Fig. 226: Current de mer, ray? en large & en travers, ? petits grains, Fi...
EditorialPoultry and a dog, A dog looks from its cage at some chickens, a rooster and chicks that pick up grains. In the window above the doghouse is an owl and in the air two swallows fly, dog, fowl (cock, hen, chicken, etc.), owls, Jan Griffier (I) (mentioned...
EditorialWing glass with landscape, Flat base. Straight trunk made of four twisted glass wires. Wings on both sides with pinched waffles. Funnel shaped chalice, on which a landscape is depicted on the underside with fine melted glass grains., anonymous, Germany...
EditorialFour Funeral Shields of the Amsterdam Guild of Corn Measurers Funeral Shield of the Korenmetersgilde Amsterdam size, a basket with cereal grains. In his left hand he holds a shovel and in his right a bar with which he passes the measure. This scene is ...
EditorialFour Funeral Shields of the Amsterdam Guild of Corn Measurers Funeral Shield of the Korenmetersgilde Amsterdam size, a basket with cereal grains. In his left hand he holds a shovel and in his right a bar with which he passes the measure. This scene is ...
EditorialJug with concentric circles, roundels and masks, Jar of stoneware on a high foot with an egg-shaped body and short, narrow neck. The C-shaped ear is attached to the neck and shoulder. Partially covered with cobalt blue. Twice a medallion of concentric ...
EditorialSpring: Soaking Rice Grains (Haru: tanehitashi no zu), No. 1 from the series "The Four Seasons of Farmers (Shiki no hyakusho)". Torii Kiyomasu II; Japanese, 1706 (?)-1763 (?). Date: 1730-1739. Dimensions: 12 1/8 x 5 1/8 in. Hand-colored woodblock print...
EditorialSpring: Soaking Rice Grains (Haru: tanehitashi no zu), No. 1 from the series "The Four Seasons of Farmers (Shiki no hyakusho)". Torii Kiyomasu II; Japanese, 1706 (?)-1763 (?). Date: 1730-1739. Dimensions: 12 1/8 x 5 1/8 in. Hand-colored woodblock print...
EditorialSpring: Soaking Rice Grains (Haru: tanehitashi no zu), No. 1 from the series "The Four Seasons of Farmers (Shiki no hyakusho)". Torii Kiyomasu II; Japanese, 1706 (?)-1763 (?). Date: 1730-1739. Dimensions: 12 1/8 x 5 1/8 in. Hand-colored woodblock print...
EditorialSpring: Soaking Rice Grains (Haru: tanehitashi no zu), No. 1 from the series "The Four Seasons of Farmers (Shiki no hyakusho)". Torii Kiyomasu II; Japanese, 1706 (?)-1763 (?). Date: 1730-1739. Dimensions: 12 1/8 x 5 1/8 in. Hand-colored woodblock print...
Editorial'Their sitting at meate'. Their way of eating food. Two inhabitants of Virginia eating from a large circular dish containing grains of food, corn. [America.-Part I.-English.] A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia, of the commoditie...
EditorialFunerary jar with dragon, Southern Song dynasty (1127?1279), 12th?13th century, China, Porcelain with carved and appliqu?d decoration under celadon glaze, H. with cover: 10 in. (25.4 cm), Ceramics, Several vessels like this one have been excavated from...
EditorialGrains of paradise, Melegueta pepper, alligator pepper, Aframomum melegueta (Amomum melegueta). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
EditorialCereals and grains: spelt or dinkled wheat, Triticum spelta 1, buckwheat, Fagopyrum esculentum 2, and rice, Oryza sativa 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1795.
EditorialZedoary or white turmeric, Curcuma zedoaria 1, flower a, leaf b, and grains of paradise, Aframomum melegueta 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. Friedrich Johann Bertuc...