EditorialFragment, Medium: linen Technique: bobbin lace, discontinuous tape, Fragment of a large scale foliated scroll pattern in diagonal, symmetric arrangement., Milan, Italy, 18th century, lace, Fragment.
EditorialCravat end, Medium: linen Technique: bobbin lace, Brussels style, In the center of the cravat end is a figure of Minerva below a canopy within symmetric tulip garden setting of balustrades, finials entwined by floral garlands and standing on arched tre...
Editorial'Oblong Fillet Flanked by Two Needle Cases (?),' Plate 5 from 'Goldsmith Ornament Designs', Heinrich Raab, German, active Nuremberg 1640 1650, Paul Furst, German, ca. 1605 1666, Engraving on off-white laid paper, Three separate white on black designs f...
EditorialBorder, Medium: linen, horsehair Technique: needle lace with 6-sided reworked ground, Border with a spray of foliage surrounded by garlands of medallions and floral sprays in symmetric design. Pattern outlined by cordonnet., France, 177090, lace, Border.
EditorialFragment, Medium: linen Technique: bobbin lace, discontinuous tape, Fragment of a large scale foliated scroll pattern in diagonal, symmetric arrangement., Milan, Italy, 18th century, lace, Fragment.
EditorialFragments, Medium: linen Technique: early 17th c. needle lace and style, Fragments with alternating arrangements of floral and foliated sprays in a symmetric pattern connected by bars., Italy, earlymid-17th century, lace, Fragments.
EditorialDetail, bed alcove, Palace of Fontainebleau, Frederick Marschall, Brush and watercolor, tempera, Chinese white on heavy paper, Elevation of section wall. Right, part of bed alcove; left, doorway. Marble dado, with wall surface above decorated with pane...
EditorialFragment, Medium: linen Technique: needle lace, Fragment of stylized floral and foliated forms in a large scale symmetric scroll design. Pattern connected by brides, picot?es, and is interspersed by gaze quadrill?e and portes., Italy, 17th century, lac...
EditorialOctopus niveus, Print, The octopus is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda. Around 300 species are recognised, and the order is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and nautiloids. Like other cephalopods, t...
EditorialBlackwork Print with a Symmetric Grotesque Pattern, ca. 1620, blackwork, Plate: 1 11/16 x 2 1/16 in. (4.3 x 5.2 cm), Blackwork print with an all-over grotesque pattern. The design is characterized by the figure of a winged soldier or cuirasse on top of...
EditorialThree Designs for Jewelry with a Beetle Motif, 1899, Graphite and gouache, sheet: 3 1/2 x 5 in. (8.9 x 12.7 cm), Edgar Gilstrap Simpson (British, 1867?1945 (presumed)), Three designs for jewelry, all decorated with beetles. The first design is for a sy...
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