EditorialMonk skull cultus in monastery Trojan, Kind of skull cult in Trojan Monastery (Bulgaria), women are looking out skulls of their deceased loved ones, sticking burning candles on them and praying before, date appreciated, Fig. 57, p. 105, 1879, F. Kanitz...
EditorialThe venom of the asp's lips, Parallel Title: Sticking to the Serpents' Lips, Signed: J. G. Pintz sculps, copperplate engraving, plate DLXXIII, F?ssli, Johann Melchior; Pinz, Johann Georg (sculps.), 1731, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer: Kupfer-Bibel (...). Aug...
EditorialPumps in a mine, A: pumping so that you use your hand, B: pumping with a dick, C: a pump with 2 roars kicking your two with your feet, D: an art of sticking with a crooked spigot, Fig. 7, p. 62, 1617, Georg Engelhard L?hneysen: Bericht vom Bergkwerck, ...
EditorialBottle Bottle with the inscription: Use each thing for utility, Inserted soul. Spherical body, passing into a slender neck, around which a drip ring has been placed. The body is inscribed in Italian letters 'Use each thing for utility.' and on the bott...
EditorialJapon strip of needle lace with standing oval medallions in a rich pattern of flower garlands, Japon strip of natural-colored needle lace: Alen?on lace. The repeating pattern consists of standing oval medallions in a rich pattern of flower garlands. Th...
EditorialCrozier head, Curl of a bishop's staff with Crucifixion and Virgin and Child, A leafy twig of a vine sprouts from a cracked lion's mouth, which curves into a curl and ends in a dragon, the head of which has a tongue sticking out reconnect the tips of i...
EditorialMedal on the occasion of the 25-year marriage of Laurens Pit and Elisabeth Vogels in 1658, Round cast silver medal, ex: inside, on the top two hands sticking out of clouds and touching each other under a heart with arrows, and at the bottom a coat of a...
EditorialWalbuks, Walbuks with octagonal drawn barrel. The drawer is made of wood and is decorated with incised curl motifs. A copper drawer strap at the end of the drawer. Halfway through the barrel a square copper drawer band with an iron pin sticking through...
EditorialDrawing table with extra tops under the table top, Oak table drawing table resting on four carved legs. The legs contain carving in vegetable motifs at the top and are interconnected by means of an H-shaped cross with the pins sticking slightly through...
EditorialSoldier sticking his skewer forward by moving his right hand from the point to the base of the Corte Onderwysinghe weapon on the figuerliicke image Soldaet acting of the Spies noodich is (original series title), A soldier, full-length, to the right, wh...
EditorialEgyptian: Relief or Votive Plaque of the God Bes, Unidentified artist, Egyptian, 664?30 B.C., Limestone with red and black pigment, This limestone plaque depicts Bes, an ancient Egyptian god believed to protect against evil. Bes is usually shown with a...
EditorialA scene from a play by William Shakespeare. A man sticking a sword into a lion. The Gateway to Shakespeare for Children. Containing a life of Shakespeare, by Mrs. Andrew Lang, a selection from the plays, and from Lamb's “Tales.” With sixteen colour...
Editorial"He stetches out his neck like tape." A giraffe sticking his head through a window. Tails with a Twist. The verses by “Belgian Hare.” The pictures by E. T. Reed. London : Edwin Arnold, [1898]. See digital file 1876_a_30_p52 for accompanying poem. S...
EditorialBowls, 14th century, Attributed to Egypt or Syria, Stonepaste; underglaze painted, Ceramics, Fuel has always been an expensive commodity and Islamic potters, like those of today, often sought to economize on its use by packing their ceramic kilns as ti...
EditorialMolded Vessel in the Form of a Mother and Child, 12th?13th century, Attributed to Iran, Stonepaste; molded, painted under transparent turquoise glaze, H. 8 1/16 in. (20.5 cm), Ceramics, This object in the shape of a woman cradling a baby belongs to a l...
EditorialANY PORT IN A STORM, THE BOAR EVADES CAPTURE BY GOING THROUGH THE PRAIRIE FIRE. PIG-STICKING ON THE BRAMAPOOTRA CHURS, BAULKED, India 1889 Asia.
EditorialAN AUTUMN TOUR IN SWITZERLAND: A LESSON IN LATIN; The celebrated Lion Monument at Lucerne is from a design by Thorwaldsen, to commemorate the Swiss Guards who fell in the memorable attack on the Tuileries, 10th August, 1972. The figure, which is hewn o...