EditorialTriumphal chariot or Liberty, Triumphal car (shell model) on four wheels. The side walls are decorated with lobe ornaments. In the car sits a woman with a hat on her stick in her right hand (sign of freedom). There is a cupid in the front of the car. T...
EditorialTriumphal chariot or Liberty, Triumphal car (shell model) on four wheels. The side walls are decorated with lobe ornaments. In the car sits a woman with a hat on her stick in her right hand (sign of freedom). There is a cupid in the front of the car. T...
EditorialTankard with dragons, figures in landscapes and ornamental borders, Beer mug made of porcelain, with a spherical body and a C-shaped ear ending in a dragon head. Painted on the glaze in blue, red, green, yellow, eggplant, turquoise, black and gold. The...
EditorialPlaque with Adoration of the Shepherds. French (Paris?) or Southern German (Nuremberg?). Date: 1500-1540. Dimensions: Diameter: 5.1 cm (2 in.). Shell. Origin: France.
EditorialPleated fan and box, Alou?se van de Voord, Fr?d?ric Houbron, (French, 18501907), Silk leaf, painted with gouache and backed with silk satin, tortoise shell sticks, silk tassel, Pleated fan with black silk leaf. Obverse: scene of a fairy and three cupid...
EditorialPleated cockade fan, Glazed cotton leaf, tortoise shell handle, silk cord, Pleated cockade fan. Leaf of glazed cotton with silk cords attached--one to the upper center of leaf and the other to the lower center through a hole in the tortoiseshell tube. ...
EditorialServing Dish, Cozzi Porcelain Factory, Italian, 1763 1812, hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold, Shell form, decorated in Chinese style with carnations, in red and blue with gilt highlights, on a blue-grey glaze., Italy, ca. 1770, ceramics, Deco...
EditorialBris? fan, Tortoise shell sticks and bail, silk ribbon, Bris? fan. tortoise shell sticks connected with brown ribbon; tortoise shell bail. In box with tan paper tooled in gilt., possibly USA, possibly France, ca. 1875, costume & accessories, Bris? fan.
EditorialPitcher, Stoneware, Embossed decoration on pitcher. Hounds in purple, yellow and white landscape. Beneath spout and loop, feathered handle, a shell framed with purple. Open spout and rimmed with metallic purple., England, 18thmid-19th century, ceramics...
EditorialMusical clock stand, Molded and chased gilt bronze, formed of a series of S-curves in ormolu, surrounding a grille on the top with curvy scroll decoration, the front and back of different scroll forms, the front with central asymmetrical shell, Paris, ...
EditorialMilk Jug, from a Breakfast Service (Pot ? Lait; D?jeuner Mosa?que Florentine), S?vres Porcelain Manufactory, French, established 1756 to the present, hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold, Vase-shaped jug with broad everted lip and tall loop hand...
EditorialBris? fan, Carved tortoiseshell sticks, silk ribbon (probably replacement), tortoiseshell washer and metal loop at the rivet, Bris? fan of tortoise shell with green silk ribbon. Blades mostly plain with three carved panels. Guards carved in high relief...
EditorialSugar Tongs, silver, Scissors-type nippers, the arm composed of interlocking scrolls, terminating in shell-shaped ends. Circular swing-joint at center; engraved. Scroll handles with shaped finger loops., London, England, ca. 1760, metalwork, Decorative...
EditorialBris? fan, Tortoise shell sticks, silk ribbon and tassel, metal bail, Bris? fan with tortoise shell sticks. Brown silk connecting ribbon. Black metal bail and brown silk tassel., USA, England, ca. 1875, costume & accessories, Bris? fan.
EditorialRattle, Silver, shell [mother of pearl], Baby in nightcap with pendant bells in silver with handle in mother-of-pearl., USA, ca. 1910, metalwork, Decorative Arts, Rattle.
EditorialFragments, Medium: silk, metal Technique: 5-harness satin foundation patterned by floats of the complementary foundation wefts and discontinuous supplementary wefts bound on the front in 1/4 twill by a supplementary warp., Vertically symmetrical patter...
EditorialBris? fan, Carved tortoise shell sticks, silk ribbon and tassel, Bris? fan with tortoise shell sticks. Brown silk tassel, metal pin, possibly France, 19th century, costume & accessories, Bris? fan.