EditorialTextile, Medium: linen, cotton, wool Technique: embroidered, Breadth of soft course cloth with two squares of embroidered decoration: in one square, mythological beast (related to Mude jar lion (?) ) with palmate feet, long tail with leaf ending , styl...
EditorialFragments, Medium: silk Technique: cut and uncut supplementary warp pile (velvet) in a woven foundation, Two small fragments of green velvet with cut and uncut pile on a cream-colored ground. Pattern is an intertwined lattice enclosing small-scale styl...
EditorialSecr?taire ? Abattant, Kimbel & Cabus, New York, New York, USA, active 18631882, Oak, nickel-plated metal (probably bronze), Upright rectangular form of solid oak construction; surface covered with carved and incised decoration of naturalistic and styl...
EditorialFrieze, Carey Bros. W.P. Mfg. Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded 1882, Machine-printed paper, Horizontally repeating pattern of short and tall groups of stylized lotus blossoms. Clouds of smaller flowers frame the lotus blossoms. Art Nouveau styl...
EditorialVz: Arabic text in 3 lines: glory of god protect me, words of god protect me, messages of god protect me, Kz: Arabic signs and along side edge also, gem, intaglio, hematite, Color: brown-gray mottled , Shape: rectangular, horizontal, Processing :, Styl...
EditorialArmchair, ca. 1810, Made in New York, New York, United States, American, Mahogany, 32 7/8 x 22 1/8 x 19 in. (83.5 x 56.2 x 48.3 cm), Furniture, Charles-Honor? Lannuier (France 1779?1819 New York), This unusually wide scroll-back armchair is in the styl...
EditorialFragment of Eastern textile, Gold on red. Pattern of network of windows, in which styl. leaves., Indie, c. 1800 - c. 1850, silk, cotton (textile), h 26 cm ? w 18.2 cm.
EditorialDish with rocks, bamboo, prunus and birds, Porcelain plate, painted on the glaze in blue, red, green, yellow, black and gold with rocks, bamboo branch and prunus with two birds on a prunus branch. Brown border. Six proen in the foot ring. Kakiemon styl...
EditorialStrip of bobbin lace with pearl cords and little ovals, Strip of natural-colored bobbin lace: Lille lace. The repeating pattern along the lower half of the strip consists of a succession of small ovals, alternately formed by a pearl necklace and a styl...
EditorialSupper at Emmaus, Jean Pierre Rousselet (French, active about 1677 - 1736), Paris, France, about 1720?1730, Tempera and gold leaf on paper bound between pasteboard covered outside in original dark blue morocco, and inside in red morocco in fanfare styl...
EditorialLantern Slide - Man Carrying Baskets, Pacific Islands, circa 1930s, Lantern slide depicting a man carrying baskets on pole, with thatched buildings in background. Although the location of this image is unknown, it appears to depict a building of a styl...
EditorialPortrait of Anna Hungerl, wife of the Munich councilor Joseph Schowinger von Wyl (?), 1553, oil on maple wood (?), 55.5 x 42.5 cm, Not specified, but dated in the scrolled cartouche: IERES ALTES [sic!] ? 26 ? /, ANNO 1553, Hans Mielich, (Art (?) / styl...
EditorialFisherman's God, Polynesian, (late 18th- early 19th?).The short, squat figure is a typical example of the so-called "fisherman's god", mounted at the front of ebery fishing canoe on Rarotonga, one of the Cook islands in the South Pacific.The wood carve...
EditorialMango tree. Vaki'at-i Baburi, the Memoirs of Babur, translated from the Turki original by Mirza 'Abd al-Rahim, Khan-i khanan. One hundred and forty-three miniatures (mostly with attributions). c.1590. Opaque watercolour. Mughal style; Mughal/Akbar styl...
EditorialHog deer (‘axis porcinus’). Vaki'at-i Baburi, the Memoirs of Babur, translated from the Turki original by Mirza 'Abd al-Rahim, Khan-i khanan. One hundred and forty-three miniatures (mostly with attributions). c.1590. Opaque watercolour. Mughal styl...
EditorialRhinoceros. Vaki'at-i Baburi, the Memoirs of Babur, translated from the Turki original by Mirza 'Abd al-Rahim, Khan-i khanan. One hundred and forty-three miniatures (mostly with attributions). c.1590. Opaque watercolour. Mughal style; Mughal/Akbar styl...
EditorialMango tree. Vaki'at-i Baburi, the Memoirs of Babur, translated from the Turki original by Mirza 'Abd al-Rahim, Khan-i khanan. One hundred and forty-three miniatures (mostly with attributions). c.1590. Opaque watercolour. Mughal style; Mughal/Akbar styl...
EditorialHog deer (‘axis porcinus’). Vaki'at-i Baburi, the Memoirs of Babur, translated from the Turki original by Mirza 'Abd al-Rahim, Khan-i khanan. One hundred and forty-three miniatures (mostly with attributions). c.1590. Opaque watercolour. Mughal styl...
EditorialRhinoceros. Vaki'at-i Baburi, the Memoirs of Babur, translated from the Turki original by Mirza 'Abd al-Rahim, Khan-i khanan. One hundred and forty-three miniatures (mostly with attributions). c.1590. Opaque watercolour. Mughal style; Mughal/Akbar styl...
EditorialDish with dragon, 1680?1700, Japanese, for European market, Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze (Hizen ware; Kakiemon type), Diameter: 9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm), Ceramics-Porcelain-Export, The motifs of this Kakiemon-styl...
EditorialFriezes with Birds, Flowers and Meandering Wreaths and Scrolls (4), ca. 1600?1617 , Etching, Sheet: 2 7/8 x 8 3/4 in. (7.3 x 22.2 cm), Theodor Bang (German, active in Nuremberg (fl6)), Frieze with a decorative pattern made up out of very delicate, styl...
EditorialArmchair, ca. 1810, Made in New York, New York, United States, American, Mahogany, 32 7/8 x 22 1/8 x 19 in. (83.5 x 56.2 x 48.3 cm), Furniture, Charles-Honor? Lannuier (France 1779?1819 New York), This unusually wide scroll-back armchair is in the styl...
EditorialSaint James the Lesser, 13th century, Made in Rhine Valley, German, Wood, painted, in some places over gesso and canvas, H. 77 in. (195.6 cm), Sculpture-Wood, This figure has been linked to sculpture of the Upper Rhine Valley, but there are closer styl...
EditorialFisherman's God, Polynesian, (late 18th- early 19th?).The short, squat figure is a typical example of the so-called "fisherman's god", mounted at the front of ebery fishing canoe on Rarotonga, one of the Cook islands in the South Pacific.The wood carve...