EditorialDish with Chinese figures in a fenced garden near a pavilion, Porcelain dish, painted in underglaze blue and on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, yellow, black and gold. On the shelf two scholars at a table with a servant in a fenced garden by a pav...
EditorialTerracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup), Late Archaic, early 5th century B.C., Greek, Corinthian, Terracotta; black-glaze, H. x width 3 7/8 x 8 in. (9.9 x 20.3 cm); diameter 5 5/16 in. (13.5 cm), Vases, Although Attica stood in the forefront of the prod...
EditorialGarden Fountain, early 17th century, Attributed to India, Deccan, Brass; cast in sections, joined and engraved, H. 38 7/16 in. (97.7 cm), Metal, Some of the forms on this fountain, such as its hourglass shape and the lion mask (kirttimukha) on its spou...
EditorialTerracotta jug, Middle Minoan IIB, ca. 1800?1750 B.C., Minoan, Terracotta; Coarse painted ware, H. 6 1/8 in. (15.5 cm), Vases, Numerous examples of this type of jug have been found in the old palace at Phaistos, and their production has been linked to ...