Editorialattributed to Gaspero Bruschi, Italian, 1701-1780, after a model by Massimiliano Soldani, Italian, 1656-1740, Venus Plucking the Wings of Cupid, 1745/1746, Hard-paste porcelain on original gilt wood base, Overall: 14 5/8 ? 13 1/2 ? 9 inches (37.1 ? 34....
EditorialSatyr sitting on a tortoise shell, inkwell. He is sitting with his left leg raised and his right leg stretched backwards on a tortoise shell. He holds the right hand on the shell in front of him, the left rests on the head of a dolphin. A grin lies on ...
EditorialSaucer, painted with a flower-plucking woman sitting on her knees, Saucer of multi-colored majolica. A landscape is painted on the saucer with houses on the left in the background and a tree on the right in the foreground. A woman is picking flowers in...
EditorialGriffin with accompanying velvet pedestal, On a rectangular skirting board is the griffin, formed from an elongated dog body with wings on the shoulders and an eagle's head with a comb on the neck, the front of the neck is covered with plucking hair. I...
EditorialScene from the legend of Phra Malai, a famous Buddhist monk believed to have travelled to heaven and hell. Woodcutter plucking lotus flowers from a pond and offering them to the monk. Phra Malai. Central Thailand, 19th Century. Source: Add. 15347, f.1...
EditorialA Lady Plucking Flowers with Peacocks, Gunakali Ragini of Malkos, from the ?Chawand Ragamala?, 1605. Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Mewar, Chawand. Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper; 20.6 x 18.1 cm (8 1/8 x 7 1/8 in.).
EditorialPage from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): First night: The merchant hears of his wife?s unfaithfulness (above); the unfaithful wife performs penance by plucking her hair (below), c. 1560. India, Mughal, Reign of Akbar, 16th century. Opaque watercolor an...
EditorialSeptember - Plucking a Goose from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853. George Cruikshank (English, 1792-1878); published by Pickering & Chatto (English, 19th century). Date: 1839. Dimensions: 94 ? 156 mm (primary su...
EditorialScene from the legend of Phra Malai, a famous Buddhist monk believed to have travelled to heaven and hell. Woodcutter plucking lotus flowers from a pond and offering them to the monk. Phra Malai. Central Thailand, 19th Century. Source: Add. 15347, f.1...
EditorialManufacture of tea at Darjeeling. Plucking leaf. A view of tea pickers in the field. Album of 'Views of Darjeeling'. 1870s. Photograph. Source: Photo 637/(47).
EditorialFernando as Hercules Plucking the Apples of the Hesperides [reverse]. Dimensions: overall (diameter): 7.2 cm (2 13/16 in.) gross weight: 125.12 gr (0.276 lb.) axis: 12:00. Medium: bronze.
EditorialG?nserupferinnen / Women Plucking Geese. Date/Period: From 1871 until 1872. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 119.5 cm (47 in); Width: 170.5 cm (67.1 in).
EditorialA Virtuous Woman Placates the King by Plucking Out Her Eyes. Date/Period: 1597-1598 (Mughal). Illuminated manuscripts; folios (leaves). Ink and pigments on laid paper ink and pigments on laid paper. Height: 28.50 mm (1.12 in); Width: 19 mm (0.74 in).
EditorialFernando as Hercules Plucking the Apples of the Hesperides [reverse]. Dimensions: overall (diameter): 7.2 cm (2 13/16 in.) gross weight: 125.12 gr (0.276 lb.) axis: 12:00. Medium: bronze.
EditorialOld Woman Plucking a Fowl. Dated: 1650/1655. Dimensions: overall: 133 x 104.7 cm (52 3/8 x 41 1/4 in.) framed: 162.6 x 136.2 cm (64 x 53 5/8 in.). Medium: oil on canvas.
Editorial?, ???, ???, ?, Plucking Chrysanthemums, Qing dynasty (1644?1911), dated 1658, China, Hanging scroll; ink on paper, Image: 32 1/2 x 12 in. (82.6 x 30.5 cm), Paintings, After Zhang Feng (Chinese, active ca. 1628?1662), This painting is a copy of a work ...
Editorial?, ???, ???, ?, Plucking Chrysanthemums, Qing dynasty (1644?1911), dated 1658, China, Hanging scroll; ink on paper, Image: 32 1/2 x 12 in. (82.6 x 30.5 cm), Paintings, After Zhang Feng (Chinese, active ca. 1628?1662), This painting is a copy of a work ...
EditorialAdam plucking an apple and Eve tasting the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, encouraged by a serpent with a human head. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar from The Dance of Death by Hans Holbein, Coxhead, London, 1816.
EditorialTEA CULTIVATION IN BRITISH INDIA, 1876: 1. Ging Tea Plantation, Darjeeling. 2. Weighing the Leaf. 3. Plucking the Leaf. 4. Rolling by Hand. 5. Withering in the Sun. 6. Rolling by Machinery. 7. Withering in the Factory. 8. Sorting by Machinery.
EditorialMarguerite daisy flower fairy, Argyranthemum frutescens, plucking petals from a flower. Handcoloured lithograph by Louis Lassalle from Louise Leneveux' Les Fleurs Parlantes (The Talking Flowers), Louis Janet, Paris, 1848.
EditorialOxeye daisy flower fairies wearing flower hats, plucking petals from flowers. Leucanthemum vulgare. Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from "Les Fleurs Animees," Paris, Gabriel de Gonet,...
EditorialOstracon, showing monkeys plucking dates from a palmtree, 19th-20th-dynasty, 1295-1069 BCE, from Deir el-Medina. Limestone, H: 8,6 cm Inv.14298.
EditorialServants plucking geese. Detail of a wallpainting in the tomb of Nakht, scribe and priest under Pharaoh Thutmosis IV (18th Dynasty, 16th-14th BCE), in the cemetery of Sheikh Abd al-Qurnah.