EditorialGoblet with Applied Decoration, 11th?early 12th century, Attributed to Iran, Colorless glass with greenish tinge; blown, applied decoration, H. 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm), Glass, This dainty goblet with a flange, or projecting ridge, and a splayed foot would ...
EditorialThe skeleton of Death brings a fatal Dainty Dish to a gluttonous feast in a grand hall. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson from The English Dance of Death, Ackermann, London, 1816.
EditorialSandwich-Carrots! dainty Sandwich Carrots, A buxom girl pushing a wheelbarrow of carrots along Bond Street, looking over her shoulder at an older man, possibly the son of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, who is tugging at her apron. In the backgroun...
EditorialTHE ENTHRONISATION OF THE NEW PRIMATE, SOME CANTERBURY VISIONS, UK, 1883: 1. A Puritan Bigot Destroying One of the Windows of the Cathedral. 2. Nell Cook: "A Warden-pie's a Dainty Dish to Mortify Withal" ("The Ingoldsby Legends"). 3. The Monument to th...
EditorialSandwich-Carrots! dainty Sandwich Carrots, A buxom girl pushing a wheelbarrow of carrots along Bond Street, looking over her shoulder at an older man, possibly the son of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, who is tugging at her apron. In the backgroun...