EditorialFolding fan with a leaf on which in watercolor an outdoor party with a dancing couple and bagpipe players, on a mother-of-pearl frame with 'm?tal en quattre couleurs', mother-of-pearl frame with stone at pin pin, 16 non-contiguous legs decorated with t...
EditorialBowl with ships and Dutch figures, Porcelain bowl with a flat, narrow rim, painted in underglaze blue and on the enamel red, green, black and gold. At the bottom a Dutch ship with two people on deck. Around this a decorative band with dragons and cloud...
EditorialFan-shaped dish with a water landscape, fan-shaped dish of porcelain, painted in underglaze blue. The ribs of the fan are cut open and covered with blue with a flower in reserve at the bottom. The part with the performance is slightly deeper and shows ...
EditorialThe two spouses in a palanquin doing a great walk, It is customary for a newlywed couple to be carried in a litter and accompanied by the people. Signed: P. Sonnerat pinx, Poisson sc, pl. 13, after p. 82 (vol. 1), Sonnerat, Pierre M. (pinx.); Poisson, ...
EditorialMonkeys on the ice Monkey game in the world (series title) 't Aapenpel in de Werelt (series title), Monkeys of all ages play on ice. On the right is a couple in a sleigh. A skating monkey has fallen on the ground to the left and a female ape is frighte...
EditorialPlate with an icing scene, Porcelain plate, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, yellow, eggplant and black. On the shelf a representation of a skating couple with two sticks in their hands, in the background a few other people, based on an ...
EditorialDutch people on a day off in Yokohama, Yokohama kyujitsu Oranda-jin yuko (series title), In the foreground a European couple (Dutch) are walking with two children across a quay. The oldest child has a horn on his wrist, the youngest child is held by hi...
EditorialTwo Bowls Bowl with ships and Dutch figures, Bowl of porcelain, painted in underglaze blue and on the enamel red, green, black and gold. At the bottom a Dutch ship with two people on deck. Around this a decorative band with dragons and clouds. On the w...
EditorialWedding couple under an arch of honor among a hedge of people, bride and groom in wedding dress, triumphal arch, Europe, anonymous, c. 1850 - c. 1880, cardboard, photographic paper, albumen print, h 85 mm ? w 170 mm.
EditorialFolding fan, consisting of a single sheet of thin leather on which with a gouache a Gods meal (?) Surrounded by a border with red, blue and gold quinoiser motifs, on a frame of ivory ajour and carved in relief, In a garden with many water features, nin...
EditorialGroup of people raise the glass to the wedding couple, To the health of the bride (title on object), wedding feast, wedding meal, H.C. White and Co. (mentioned on object), 1902, photographic paper, cardboard, gelatin silver print, h 87 mm ? w 177 mm.
EditorialMutsuki, January., Hanabusa, Itcho, 1652-1724, artist, [between 1830 and 1844], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 21.9 x 35 cm., Print shows several people outside the entrance to a building, a couple is about to enter, an elderly man is using a broom to knoc...
EditorialMutsuki, January., Hanabusa, Itcho, 1652-1724, artist, [between 1830 and 1844], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 21.9 x 35 cm., Print shows several people outside the entrance to a building, a couple is about to enter, an elderly man is using a broom to knoc...
EditorialThe last of the nomadic Charrua people, Uruguay, 1833. Medicine man Senacua Senaque (perhaps drinking yerba mate tea), warrior with bow and arrow Vaimaca-Piru Sira, and young couple Laureano Tacuave Martinez and Maria Micaela Guyunusa. The Charrua were...
EditorialIn 1956, the Sopot Jazz festival in Poland helped redefine the country's cultural landscape allowing jazz to be played openly despite it having been banned under the Communist regime. The first "International Jazz Festival" in Sopot, including two ba...
EditorialA group of people gather before a stage on which a mountebank displays his goods on the left, next to two ecclesiastics and a street-seller surrounded by small children in the middle and a couple walking past a puppet show on the right in the foregroun...
EditorialThe last of the Charruas. The Charrúa were an indigenous people of South America. After a massacre at Salsipuedes, four surviving Charrúas were captured. They were Senacua Sénaqué, a medicine man; Vaimaca-Pirú Sira, a warrior; and a young couple, ...
EditorialMirror of National Costumes of All Nations (Bankoku isho kagami), ???????, Meiji period (1868?1912), 1882, Japan, Triptych of polychrome woodblock prints; ink and color on paper, Image (a): 14 x 9 1/4 in. (35.6 x 23.5 cm), Prints, Kobayashi Kiyochika (...
EditorialMutsuki, January., Hanabusa, Itcho, 1652-1724, artist, [between 1830 and 1844], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 21.9 x 35 cm., Print shows several people outside the entrance to a building, a couple is about to enter, an elderly man is using a broom to knoc...
EditorialMutsuki, January., Hanabusa, Itcho, 1652-1724, artist, [between 1830 and 1844], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 21.9 x 35 cm., Print shows several people outside the entrance to a building, a couple is about to enter, an elderly man is using a broom to knoc...
EditorialCostumes of Peru, 18th century: couple from Lima 1, noblewoman of Lima 2, indigenous people 3, indigenous people in their best clothes 4, and inhabitants of Quito 5. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Boo...
EditorialThe last of the nomadic Charrua people, Uruguay, 1833. Medicine man Senacua Senaque (perhaps drinking yerba mate tea), warrior with bow and arrow Vaimaca-Piru Sira, and young couple Laureano Tacuave Martinez and Maria Micaela Guyunusa. The Charrua were...
EditorialTHE "GALUMBO," A POPULAR SPORT IN SPAIN; And the sport is started in the principal square, a long rope attached to the Bull's horns, to which men tail on, keeps him (in a degree) under control; A young Bull, escorted by a couple of trained "Cabestros" ...
EditorialIn 1956, the Sopot Jazz festival in Poland helped redefine the country's cultural landscape allowing jazz to be played openly despite it having been banned under the Communist regime. The first "International Jazz Festival" in Sopot, including two ba...