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.
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.
EditorialFoot stool, Walnut, blue flowered tapestry covered seat, In William and Mary Style. Scroll legs and feet, carved back and front stretchers. Turned stretchers at sides are united by shaped and pierced stretcher of unusual design, probably a modern repla...
EditorialNegative - Camperdown District, Victoria, circa 1860, Family on the verandah of the first homestead on 'Terrinallum' station. The house is an unusual design and appears to have two later extensions at either end of the original house. There is a small ...
EditorialCoin with Gemini Zodiac Sign, dated A.H. 1027/ A.D. 1618, Attributed to India, Silver, Diam. 13/16 in. (2 cm), Coins, This coin bears a Gemini symbol, but it was not created for talismanic purposes. This sign instead corresponds to the month in which i...
EditorialBanister-back chair, 1715?35, Possibly made in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States; Possibly made in Massachusetts, United States, American, Poplar, ash, 47 1/2 x 21 x 15 3/4 in. (120.7 x 53.3 x 40 cm), Furniture, American-made banister-back chair...
EditorialFrench infantry soldiers, 10th century. Their helmets, bucklers (shields), pikes and shoes are of an unusual design. From a manuscript by Prudentius in the Bibliotheque royale. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from "French...