EditorialSilver cabinet, Silver case whose face is dominated by turning, with all hurled mahogany colonets and pinnacles inlaid with an ivory piping, and furthermore with thin tracing, both on a background of mirrors and against a wooden ground, and because of ...
EditorialOchiyo and Hanbei take off, Ochiya and her husband Hanbei, looking up at a cuckoo, under an umbrella, elopement, running away, Torii Kiyonaga (mentioned on object), 1780 - 1784, paper, colour woodcut, h 712 mm × w 122 mm.
EditorialInro with lilies Inro with Yoritomo and cranes, peach-shaped nestuke, ojime, Box of gold lacquer, consisting of five parts, with a representation in inlaid ivory and gold leaf (kirikane), nashiji, and different colors of gold hira and taka makie, of fi...
EditorialCabinet Art cabinet glued with walnut and ebony, ivory and turtle, marble plates and gilt copper. In the middle a porch with doors and drawers around which Old Testament scenes. A balustrade crowning with top piece and female figures and dolphins, Art ...
EditorialDesign for an organ pendulum, Organ pendulum, inlaid with two blue and white plaques, probably from S?vres porcelain, cut-away with a Chinese-looking geometric pattern, topped by a white vase with griffins., clock, organ, anonymous, Paris (possibly), c...
EditorialCrozier head, Curl of a bishop's staff with Crucifixion and Virgin and Child, A leafy twig of a vine sprouts from a cracked lion's mouth, which curves into a curl and ends in a dragon, the head of which has a tongue sticking out reconnect the tips of i...
EditorialScene from a life of saints, Five men stand in front of a fa?ade wall, which at the top becomes a gallery of three arcades, on which a roof (?). From the gallery, four men look down upon them, of whom only the upper body is visible. Below are standing ...
Editorialheartstone with a diamond ornament with two heads, heartstone with a diamond ornament, in which two heads looking away from each other. The half and quarter diamonds on the top and bottom are filled with parts of medallions with a stylized floral patte...
EditorialGenroku no hanami, Cherry blossom viewing during the Genroku period., Totoya, Hokkei, 1780-1850, artist, [between 1818 and 1830], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 37.9 x 51.2 cm., Print shows two women on a red cloth spread on the ground behind a screen, and...
EditorialGenroku no hanami, Cherry blossom viewing during the Genroku period., Totoya, Hokkei, 1780-1850, artist, [between 1818 and 1830], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 37.9 x 51.2 cm., Print shows two women on a red cloth spread on the ground behind a screen, and...
EditorialMachined lace stole with symmetrical pattern of large flowers, Natural colored machined lace stole: machined blonde. Elongated rectangular model. The symmetrical pattern consists of various large flowers. In the middle a relatively smaller flower is si...
EditorialTrim of linen with a front piece of needle lace with the coat of arms of Belgium, Demolition of natural colored linen with a front piece of parts made in needle lace and parts made in bobbin lace. Inside a reticella frame (needle side) of squares with ...
EditorialOno no Komachi, Hosoda Eishi (Japanese, 1756-1829), Edo, about 1785, ink on paper, color woodblock print, 15 x 10 in. (image & sheet; bled to margins), Signed by artist, reads: Eishi zu (Picture by Eishi) Publisher's mark: unidentified Censor's seal: c...
EditorialAngels conducting the spirits of benefactors to the Heavenly Jerusalem, the portal of which is opened by St Peter for their reception. Both this image and the next extend across the two pages. (Lower)Two saints looking on a contest between St Peter a...
EditorialAngels conducting the spirits of benefactors to the Heavenly Jerusalem, the portal of which is opened by St Peter for their reception. Both this image and the previous extend across the two pages. Two saints looking on a contest between St Peter and ...
EditorialDesign for Paul Fierens "l'Art Hollandais contemporain": naked woman between two men heads looking away from each other. Draughtsman: Leo Gestel. Dating: c. 1933. Measurements: h 306 mm ? w 249 mm.
EditorialDesign sketch for Paul Fierens "l'Art Hollandais contemporain": two men heads, and profil pictured, looking away from each other. Draughtsman: Leo Gestel. Dating: c. 1933. Measurements: h 330 mm ? w 258 mm.
EditorialA View from Moel Cynwich: Looking Over the Vale of Afon Mawddach and Toward Cader Idris, c. 1850. William Turner (British, 1789-1862). Watercolor with scratch-away, heightened with white;.
EditorialDesign for Paul Fierens "l'Art Hollandais contemporain": naked woman between two men heads looking away from each other. Draughtsman: Leo Gestel. Dating: c. 1933. Measurements: h 306 mm ? w 249 mm.
EditorialDesign sketch for Paul Fierens "l'Art Hollandais contemporain": two men heads, and profil pictured, looking away from each other. Draughtsman: Leo Gestel. Dating: c. 1933. Measurements: h 330 mm ? w 258 mm.
EditorialAngels conducting the spirits of benefactors to the Heavenly Jerusalem, the portal of which is opened by St Peter for their reception. Both this image and the next extend across the two pages. (Lower)Two saints looking on a contest between St Peter a...
EditorialThe huntsman riding away. Anvar-i Suhayli. India, 1610-1611. The lynx looking at the dead leopard while the huntsman rides off with the leopard's skin. A miniature painting from a seventeenth century manuscript of Anvar-i Suhayli, a version of the Kali...
EditorialAngels conducting the spirits of benefactors to the Heavenly Jerusalem, the portal of which is opened by St Peter for their reception. Both this image and the previous extend across the two pages. Two saints looking on a contest between St Peter and ...
EditorialGenroku no hanami, Cherry blossom viewing during the Genroku period., Totoya, Hokkei, 1780-1850, artist, [between 1818 and 1830], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 37.9 x 51.2 cm., Print shows two women on a red cloth spread on the ground behind a screen, and...
EditorialGenroku no hanami, Cherry blossom viewing during the Genroku period., Totoya, Hokkei, 1780-1850, artist, [between 1818 and 1830], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 37.9 x 51.2 cm., Print shows two women on a red cloth spread on the ground behind a screen, and...