EditorialPutti and Fauns Climbing a Grapevine. Dated: 1650s. Dimensions: plate: 18.5 x 16.5 cm (7 5/16 x 6 1/2 in.) sheet: 38.5 x 26.8 cm (15 3/16 x 10 9/16 in.). Medium: etching with engraving on laid paper.
EditorialOval bowl with grapevine scrolls inhabited by birds and animals, Sasanian, ca. 6th?7th century A.D., Iran, Sasanian, Silver, mercury gilding, 2.76 x 4.37 x 9.17 in. (7.01 x 11.1 x 23.29 cm), Metalwork-Vessels, This oval bowl, made from a single piece o...
EditorialA Woman Seated at a Window, early 1660s, Oil on wood, 10 7/8 x 8 7/8 in. (27.6 x 22.5 cm), Paintings, Gabri?l Metsu (Dutch, Leiden 1629?1667 Amsterdam), A housewife holds an apple, which in this context more likely refers to the New Eve (the Virgin Mar...
Editorial????, Cicada on a Grapevine, Muromachi period (1392?1573), late 14th century, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink on paper, Image: 25 1/4 ? 12 1/8 in. (64.2 ? 30.8 cm), Paintings, Bokurin Guan (Japanese, active late 14th century), At the end of summer, the leav...
EditorialDoor Post with Grapevine Emerging from a Chalice, 6th?7th century, Found/excavated Egypt, Saqqara, Limestone; carved, H. 25 9/16 in. (65 cm), Sculpture, In the 500s Apa (Father) Jeremias founded a Coptic monastery at Saqqara, the ancient Egyptian necro...
EditorialLa Vigne. Grapevine, Vitis vinifera. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qui se cultivent tant dans les jardins de la chine, que dans ceux de l'Europe, Pari...
EditorialGrapevine with grapes, Vitis vinifera. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialEustera brachyura silk moth 1, grapevine epimenis, Psychomorpha epimenis 2, Lithosia? ino 3, and Aletis helcita 4. Handcoloured lithograph from John O. Westwood's new edition of Dru Drury's "Illustrations of Exotic Entomology," Bohn, London, 1837.
EditorialTipsy grapevine flower fairy, Vitis vinifera, with dress of leaves and headdress of tentdrils, holding a bunch of grapes. In the foreground, a drunken bird and a broken wine glass and bottle.
EditorialGrapevine with leaves and young grapes, Vitis vinifera. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn from nature by Mrs. Rebecca Hey from her own "Spirit of the Woods," London, Longman, Rees, 1837. Rebecca Hey was a Victorian writer, poet and artist who w...
EditorialThe intricately carved door in the center of the iconostasis of Transfiguration Church on Kizhi Island. An ancient Christian symbol, a grapevine, covers the gilded door. See also 30-01-01 / 12, 14.