EditorialAfter 20 years, “The Wire” is much praised and rarely imitated. For a series based on the idea that institutions don’t change, that’s fitting. (Chase Hall/The New York Times)
Editorial'The bell ringer imitated his graces." Illustration for 'Pudd'nhead Wilson'. The Writings of Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens). Author's e?dition de luxe. [With portraits.]. 1899. Source: 12296.ee opposite page 50.
EditorialVase, porphyry, red, black and white marble. As of the second half of the 18th century, vases were made according to the fashionable antique style; the marble pedestal imitated Roman altars, while the two personages on the vase play Greek aulos flutes....
EditorialVarious Roman Ionic capitals compared with Greek examples from Le Roy [S. Maria in Trastevere, S. Paoplo fuori le Mura, S. Clemente, etc.], from Della Magnificenza e d'Architettura de'Romani (On the Grandeur and the Architecture of the Romans by Gio. B...
EditorialTwenty-eight pennies, siege of Leiden, emergency currency of the second siege, Paper currency. Obverse: lion with freedom hat on spear in right and city coat of arms in left claw, right: imitated knock: little lion inside an inscription. Reverse: inscr...
EditorialPainting removed from a wall of a room, possibly a triclinium or dining room, in a house in Pompeii in 1749. It shows a Cernophores dancer with basket and plate, a crown of wheat, and a fine white robe with sandals. The Cernophores imitated religious d...
EditorialPainting removed from a wall of a room, possibly a triclinium or dining room, in a house in Pompeii in 1749. It shows a Cernophores dancer with basket and plate, a crown of wheat, and a fine white robe with sandals. The Cernophores imitated religious d...
EditorialEarthenware bowl, E.J. Birch Black Basalt, hemispherical bowl made of earthenware, Black Basalt. The bowl stands on a profiled foot, above it has an edge of imitated braid and above it a frieze with allegorical representations in relief (shepherd and s...
EditorialTwenty-eight pennies, siege of Leiden, emergency currency of the second siege, Paper currency. Obverse: lion with freedom hat on spear in right and city coat of arms in left claw, right: imitated knock: little lion inside an inscription. Reverse: inscr...
EditorialStrip of crocheted lace with pointed scallops as punto in aria, Strip of natural-colored crocheted lace that imitated punto in aria (needle lace). The repetitive and symmetrical pattern consists of triangular shells with an arc around each rosette at e...
EditorialHand guard, Square mocha-shaped tsuba with a decoration of two hanan in high relief on a background of imitated wood. In wooden box (not matching) with collector's stamp., anonymous, Japan, 1800 - 1900, iron (metal), copper (metal), d 8.2 cm ? t 0.5 cm.
EditorialCanopy bed made of walnut, fully rigged with curtains and falls from silk, fully rigged with curtains and falls from silk. The bed consists of a wooden box with raised headboard, resting on ball legs, where a construction is imitated with false hinges,...
EditorialFaience scarabs. a) Egyptian, probably with the name of Psammetichus I (664-610 BC), b) Type imitated in the Aegean area, c) Maybe made __in Phoenicia, d) Possibly made __in Rhodes, e) Egyptian, possibly with the name Psammetichus II (595-589 BC): f) E...
EditorialVase, porphyry, red, black and white marble. As of the second half of the 18th century, vases were made according to the fashionable antique style; the marble pedestal imitated Roman altars, while the two personages on the vase play Greek aulos flutes....
EditorialVarious Roman Ionic capitals compared with Greek examples from Le Roy [S. Maria in Trastevere, S. Paoplo fuori le Mura, S. Clemente, etc.], from Della Magnificenza e d'Architettura de'Romani (On the Grandeur and the Architecture of the Romans by Gio. B...
EditorialPainting removed from a wall of a room, possibly a triclinium or dining room, in a house in Pompeii in 1749. It shows a Cernophores dancer with basket and plate, a crown of wheat, and a fine white robe with sandals. The Cernophores imitated religious d...
Editorial'The bell ringer imitated his graces." Illustration for 'Pudd'nhead Wilson'. The Writings of Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens). Author's e?dition de luxe. [With portraits.]. 1899. Source: 12296.ee opposite page 50.
EditorialPsalms of David. The Psalms of David imitated in the Language of the New Testament, and apply’d to the christian state and worship, by I. Watts. 1719. Binding. Source: 218.d.5 Front binding.
EditorialCopy of a reliquary made in Scandinavia at the end of the 10th cent. The wooden casket was clad with elk horn and gilt-bronze bands. The form imitated a Viking house. The original reliquary was kept in the cathedral in Cammin, Pomerania, but disappeare...