EditorialPouch with four pattes, of silk with which the Four Cardinal Virtues are knitted with multicolored glass beads: Caution, Justice, Moderation and Courage, with drawstring and large acorns with tassel, of silk with the Four Cardinal Virtues, with caution...
EditorialCape, Medium: S-spun tussah silk embroidery, Z-spun cotton foundation Technique: embroidered in chain and back stitch with French knots on two layers of plain weave; inner layer of unspun cotton Label: cotton embroidered with tussah silk in chain and b...
EditorialSjees, Sjees without hood, pulled by a horse. There is a man with a stab in the huts, a stick in his right hand and a woman with a fan in her right hand. The image is marked: stk. = Haarlem, mt. = Attributed to Abraham van der Hoeff, and a dolphin, two...
EditorialAquamanile in the form of a lion Aquamanile in the form of a lion Lion-aquamanile, The object cast in cire perdue technique and then partially embellished, the details of which are extended, engraved or punched, has the shape of a lion. This one has a ...
EditorialTwo badges, Carrying sign with a bishop, flanked by Saint Catherine and Saint Barbara, from Mook, Carrier sign of partially gold-plated silver. The round plate is decorated with a border of open-worked leaf ornament in relief, between which animals and...
EditorialEngraved bronze pyxis (small box with lid), Archaic, ca. 675?625 B.C., Etruscan, Bronze, H. 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm), Bronzes, The engraved decoration, consisting of heraldic animals alternating with stylized plants, is similar to Orientalizing friezes inc...
Editorial***EMBARGOED UNTIL 9am EST on TUESDAY 21 DEC*** The Beatles seen in rare and newly-discovered photos in Ringo Starrs upcoming memoir, set for 2022 release
Editorial“About 10 percent of my donations every year goes to easing, or ending, the suffering of factory farmed animals, which is mind-melting in its scale,” writes New York Times columnist Ezra Klein. (Igor Bastidas/The New York Times)