EditorialFurniture leg, lion's paw, Middle Bronze Age?Old Assyrian Trading Colony, ca. 18th century B.C., Anatolia, probably from Acemh?y?k, Old Assyrian Trading Colony, Ivory, 2.01 x 3.2 in. (5.11 x 8.13 cm), Ivory/Bone-Sculpture,.
EditorialPlaque, 12th century, Made in Italy, Sicily, Bone; carved and incised, H. 1 5/8 (4.1 cm), Ivories and Bone, This small pentagonal ivory plaque depicts a lion set against foliage. With one paw raised, the lion tilts its head upwards, and its tail swings...
EditorialPair of bronze cista (toiletries box) feet with panthers attacking cranes, Late Classical-Hellenistic, ca. 350?300 B.C., Praenestine, Bronze, H.: 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm), Bronzes, The attachments on these lion's-paw feet show a panther attacking a crane.
EditorialBronze jug, Late Archaic, early 5th century B.C., Etruscan, Bronze, H. (without handle): 5 in. (12.7 cm), Bronzes, High handle; the lower part of the handle is in the form of a lion's paw.
EditorialTall kangaroo paw, Anigozanthos flavidus (Yellow-haired anigozanthus, Anigosanthus flavida. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by G. Barclay after Miss Sarah Drake from John Lindley and Robert Sweet's Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G. Willis, ...
EditorialRed-and-green kangaroo paw, Anigozanthos manglesii (Mr. Mangles' anigozanthus, Anigozanthus manglesii). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Mills from Benjamin Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Henslow's The Botanist, Lon...
EditorialTall kangaroo paw, Anigozanthos flavidus (Two-coloured anigozanthus, Anigosanthos flavida var. bicolor). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by G. Barclay after Miss Sarah Drake from John Lindley and Robert Sweet's Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery...
EditorialRed-and-green kangaroo paw, Mr. Mangles kangaroo paw, Anigozanthos manglesii (Anigosanthos manglesii). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Frederick W. Smith after J. Hart from John Lindley and Robert Sweet's Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G...
EditorialSaint Jerome Extracting a Thorn from a Lion's Paw; Master of the Murano Gradual, Italian, active about 1430 - 1460; Italy, Northern, Europe; second quarter of 15th century; Tempera and gold leaf on parchment; Leaf: 21 x 16.5 cm (8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.).
EditorialYork town, en sanguine engraving shows America receiving the surrender of Cornwallis in the background, while an emaciated cow representing English commerce is robbed of her milk by France, Spain, and Holland in the left foreground, on the right a froc...
EditorialBlack kangaroo paw, Macropidia fuliginosa (Sooty anigozanthos, Anigozanthos fuliginosa), native to Australia. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Walter Fitch from Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Curtis's Botanical Magazine," Lo...
EditorialEurasian beaver or European beaver, Castor fiber, with webbed rear paw 1, and smaller front paw 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792.
EditorialYork town, en sanguine engraving shows America receiving the surrender of Cornwallis in the background, while an emaciated cow representing English commerce is robbed of her milk by France, Spain, and Holland in the left foreground, on the right a froc...
EditorialPaw of a large sphinx with lion's claws. Quartzite. Middle or New Kingdom. C. 2000-1000 BC. From Memphis, Egypt. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark.
EditorialSaint Jerome pulls a thorn from the lion's paw; the lion pursues the thieves who have stolen the monastery's donkey; the lion returns with a caravan loaded with merchandise. See 40-08-06 / 6-10 Wood, 235 x 78 cm M. I. 472.
EditorialThe Odeon, Pompeii. This small, covered theatre with a seating capacity of 1500, was reserved for poetry recitals accompanied by lyre. At the end of the balustrade which separates the better seats from the narrower ranks, a winged lion's paw of tuff. 1...
EditorialGold diadem with oval butts, each with a lion's paw and winged horse on a filigree stand, from the tomb " Lady of Vix", Burgundy, France. Length: 22 cm, weight: 400 g.
EditorialChair with blue legs, New Kingdom. Legs in form of a lion's paw, back with incrustation of Lotus flowers. Wood and incrustations, paint, 91 x 47,5 x 59 cm N 2950.