EditorialGold belt buckle fom the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, early 7th century. It is hollow and made in two parts joined by a hinge. The master-craftsman who made it devised a locking system involving a complex system of sliders and internal rods whic...
EditorialBand, Medium: linen Technique: bobbin lace, discontinuous tape, Wide band of bobbin lace with a symmetrical design of foliage, flowers, birds and animals. The repeating design alternates between a flowering plant and a crowned siren with a tail in each...
EditorialThe four brothers embrace outside the palace (centre), with women looking down from a shuttered jharokhā window supported by curving serpentine brackets. A rich cloth is spread over the sill. Then Bharata and ?atrughna go off in one chariot, with Yud...
EditorialWriting table (part of a set), Joseph Baumhauer (French, active ca. 1749?72), ca. 1770, French, Oak, veneered with tulipwood, purplewood, casuarina wood, and kingwood; gilt-bronze mounts, gilt-tooled leather, H. 29-3/4 x W. 69 x D. 39-1/4 in. (75.6 x 1...
EditorialSemicircular card table, Two semicircular card tables with fold-out tops, resting on four conical, square-sectioned legs, the two hind legs of which are rotatable. The leaf and the line are painted with a border of flowers and leaf vines, the legs show...
EditorialSmall Double Spout Bowl with Repeated Curving Motif. Possibly Lima or Maranga; Central coast, Peru. Date: 450 AD-750 AD. Dimensions: 6.4 x 20 cm (2 1/2 x 7 7/8 in.). Ceramic and pigment. Origin: Peruvian Central Coast.
EditorialLandscape with Curving Road. Charles ?mile Jacque; French, 1813-1894. Date: 1849. Dimensions: 154 ? 201 mm (image); 168 ? 204 mm (plate); 298 ? 424 mm (sheet). Etching on mounted china paper. Origin: France.
EditorialCurving Vessel with Molded Head Spout. Chim?-Inca; North coast, Peru. Date: 1200-1450. Dimensions: H. 11 cm (4 5/16 in.). Ceramic. Origin: North Coast.
EditorialA dirt road curving to the left in the foreground; a gate, fence and barn on the left-hand side; buildings on the right; a boat on the water in the distance. VIEW AT NEWTOWN, ISLE OF WIGHT. [London] : Pubd Novr 14th 1796 F. Jukes Howland Street., [Nove...
EditorialTextile, Medium: cotton Technique: mordants for three reds and purple applied by brush or pen; blue applied over resist; yellow over blue to create green; mordant for background spattered through a stencil; chintz on plain weave, Large, exotic flowers ...
EditorialQuarter of a Ceiling, Livre de Portion de Plafonds en Vousures (Book of Portions of Vaulted Ceilings), Fran?ois de Cuvilli?s the Elder, Belgian, active Germany, 1695 - 1768, Fran?ois de Cuvilli?s the younger, German, 1731 - 1777, Nicolas Jean-Baptiste ...
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk Technique: compound weave with supplementary weft, Fragment of horizontally ribbed, self-patterned with curving checkered leaves and brocaded with typical Louis XV trimming sprays of flowers in greens, blues, mauves, pinks, white...
EditorialRibbon, Medium: silk, metallic thread Technique: woven, Narrow woven ribbon with a pattern of fruit and floral forms on a curving ribbon in multicolors on a gold background., France, 18th century, woven textiles, Ribbon.
EditorialTextile, Medium: linen warp, cotton weft Technique: relief printed, Curving bands of foliage and ribbons, more or less symmetrically arranged: a hunter on horseback blowing his horn and pursuing a stag with hounds. block print in polychrome, now somewh...
EditorialBedcover, Medium: silk, gilded paper on silk core, metallic thread Technique: embroidered on satin weave, Large bedcover of white satin embroidered in allover floral pattern in brilliant colored silks and metallic thread. Design, symmetrically arranged...
EditorialFragment, Medium: cotton Technique: plain weave foundation. block-printed: a resist medium. Dyed blue., Alternation of a slightly curving with a fine flowering vine superposed on it with units containing two peony-like flowers., France, 18th century, p...
EditorialBorder, Medium: linen Technique: bobbin lace, Mechlin style with five hole ground, Fragment with an unusual design of curving stems forming medallions filled with cinq trous (five hole) stitches., Genoa, 18th century, lace, Border.
EditorialFragment, Medium: linen Technique: block printed on plain weave, Fragment of heavy hand-woven linen in a dark cream color block printed in black. Design is mostly reserved in background color with details in black. Curving vine and stylized flowers for...
EditorialCollar, Medium: linen Technique: plain weave embroidered with deflected element work, Collar with a slightly scalloped edge showing design of large flowers and buds with curving leaves., possibly France, possibly Italy, 18th century, embroidery & stitc...
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk, polychrome paint Technique: painted and printed on plain weave, Panel with several repeats of a conventionalized design made from leaves and flowers, arabesques and curving, intersecting lines., China, 18th century, printed, dye...
EditorialTowel, Medium: silk, raw silk Technique: withdrawn element work with embroidery on plain weave, Cream-colored panel embroidered with cream raw silk and silk floss, with drawn work. One end, almost half the towel, has two stylized vines containing tulip...
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk and metallic thread, Galloon fragment with design of curving leaves and open flowers with borders at either side; slightly scalloped edge; furnishing trim; fragment is now purple and appears to have been dyed. See 1905-2-49., Fra...
EditorialLetter case, Medium: straw, paper, linen Technique: embroidered in couching stitches, Letter case of braids, coils and strips of natural colored straw couched to a surface of flat strips of red dyed straw which have been sewn to paper and backed with p...
EditorialTrimming, Medium: silk Technique: cut and uncut, voided supplementary warp pile (velvet), Red trimming fragment in a design of a curving stem with flowers, leaves and buds between wavy borders., France, 18th century, trimmings, Trimming.
EditorialTextile, Medium: silk Technique: compound weave, Large-scale flowers and fruit on curving ogival stems, in white on salmon pink weft-ribbed ground. Two plain selvages., England, 18th century, woven textiles, Textile.