EditorialRegency gentleman riding a horse with one hind leg buckled into the surcingle. A man with tobacco pipe and ale jug shouts at him. Another rider falls from galloping horse. How to Ride a Horse Upon Three Legs. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Thoma...
EditorialFour Saints in a Historiated Initial "P" from a Choirbook or Antiphonal. Northern Italian (likely Lombardy); Bartolomeo Rigossi da Gallarte (Italian, active 1460/80). Date: 1435-1465. Dimensions: 153 x 151 mm (buckled). Manuscript cutting in tempera an...
EditorialToilette de garden-party. Woman wearing yellow skirt and a green cropped jacket both with black fur trimming, tied with a multicolured belt. Also wearing a straw hat with multicoloured trimming, and black buckled heels. Costumes Parisiens no.38. Journa...
EditorialVettore Pisani, Venetian admiral, 1324-1380. He wears a red toque, ted tunic buckled up the front, suit of steel plate armour, cuisses, greaves, gauntlets, and shoes, edged with gold. His arms include two-handed sword and dagger. From the statue in Ven...
EditorialA buckled window grille, damaged in the Great Fire of Rome in A.D. 64, in the new exhibit “Nero: The Man Behind the Myth,” at the British Museum in London, May 25, 2021. (Tom Jamieson/The New York Times)
EditorialButtons, Silver-plated brass, Circular buttons with shank - shield with coat of arms [three flowering stems in handled vase]; against crossed flags with drapery mantling held at top with crown, ribbon with motto below. On reverse, 'Perfectionne' on a b...
EditorialBowl, glass, glass making, glass, cast and cut, Total: Height: 7,20 cm; Diameter: 19,20 cm, container, storage, kitchen work, drinking and barware, The bowl has a high neck with outwardly curved rim. The body of the bowl is decorated on the outside in ...
EditorialBuckled pot of gray Frankish pottery with ornaments, pot, bending pot, earthenware (Frankish), h: 11.3 cm, diam: 12.5 cm, vme 500-700 AD, The Netherlands, Gelderland, Berg en Dal, Beek.
EditorialFifty-year celebration of the liberation of Deventer, one-sided pewter sign, consisting of two round plates of pleated, yellow textile, metal shield on top, including a red and a white ribbon, shield: coat of arms between two dates within buckled belt ...
EditorialA medal of St. Christopher, the patron saint of travelers, is displayed in a car, Aug. 14, 2009, in New York. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)
EditorialRegency gentleman riding a horse with one hind leg buckled into the surcingle. A man with tobacco pipe and ale jug shouts at him. Another rider falls from galloping horse. How to Ride a Horse Upon Three Legs. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Thoma...
EditorialFour Saints in a Historiated Initial "P" from a Choirbook or Antiphonal. Northern Italian (likely Lombardy); Bartolomeo Rigossi da Gallarte (Italian, active 1460/80). Date: 1435-1465. Dimensions: 153 x 151 mm (buckled). Manuscript cutting in tempera an...
EditorialThe Brooks Brothers Flatiron Shop at The Streets at Southpoint shopping mall in Durham, N.C., May 30, 2020, remains closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Jeremy M. Lange/The New York TImes)
EditorialCaddy, oval, with fillet edges, The oval canister has a slightly curved, widening body that rises slightly higher on the sides. A hinged, curved lid with a buckled wall and a straight bottom edge closes over the can. It is crowned by a round button on ...
EditorialHalberd with hook adorned with two clovers, Halberd composed of a rosette-shaped openwork ax with a straight cut and pairwise scalloped top and bottom, a very decorative mandrel-shaped tip on a leaf with buckled top and bottom, the bend itself is accen...
EditorialThird centenary of the capture of Den Briel, one-sided silver carrier sign on a red-white-blue bow, in the form of an anchor, on which a medallion rests, surrounded by a buckled belt, in medallion: two hands clasped together, on which hang bag, cup and...
EditorialMars, The god stands head-on, the head slightly to the right, in full armor with equally spread legs on a protruding floor for a framed flat background. The right hand rests on a hatchet, the stem of which rests on the ground behind him, on the left ar...
EditorialFifty-year celebration of the liberation of Deventer, one-sided pewter sign, consisting of two round plates of pleated, yellow textile, metal shield on top, including a red and a white ribbon, shield: coat of arms between two dates within buckled belt ...
EditorialFour Saints in a Historiated Initial "P" from a Choirbook or Antiphonal. Northern Italian (likely Lombardy); Bartolomeo Rigossi da Gallarte (Italian, active 1460/80). Date: 1435-1465. Dimensions: 153 x 151 mm (buckled). Manuscript cutting in tempera an...
EditorialHauling canoes up Inkisi Falls. Illustrated London News. London, February 6, 1878. Inviting my friendly natives to my aid, we buckled on to the two largest canoes, while the weaker Wangnana cut a road through the forest- H.M. Stanley. From a sketch by ...
EditorialToilette de garden-party. Woman wearing yellow skirt and a green cropped jacket both with black fur trimming, tied with a multicolured belt. Also wearing a straw hat with multicoloured trimming, and black buckled heels. Costumes Parisiens no.38. Journa...
EditorialOld Geordie Syme, the Piper of Dalkeith, a famous bagpiper, in his formal clothes: yellow coat, red plush breeches, white stockings and buckled shoes. Copperplate engraving by John Kay from A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, Hugh P...
EditorialVettore Pisani, Venetian admiral, 1324-1380. He wears a red toque, ted tunic buckled up the front, suit of steel plate armour, cuisses, greaves, gauntlets, and shoes, edged with gold. His arms include two-handed sword and dagger. From the statue in Ven...