EditorialStrip of needle lace with snail shell, Strip of natural colored needle lace: Venetian embossed lace. Despite repairs, an axis of symmetry can be recognized, on the sides of which two large, extending arabesque leaves are turned towards each other. They...
EditorialRound red and blue shell with smaller shells A series of shells (series title) Kaitsukushi (series title on object), Different shells with the waves of the sea in the background. With three poems, molluscs (shell, snail shell etc.), Totoya Hokkei (ment...
EditorialReflection shell, ivory shell and triton shell Utsusegai baishi hora (title on object) A series of shells (series title) Kaitsukushi (series title on object), A large triton shell with smaller shells. With three poems, molluscs (shell, snail shell etc....
EditorialShell from V.O.C. ship the 'Witte Leeuw', molluscs (shell, snail-shell etc.), Saint Helena, Dutch East India Company, niet van toepassing, before 1613, l 5.0 cm ? w 3.6 cm ? d 2.9 cm.
EditorialFlower shell, red shell and the pure red shell Hanagai akagai masuogai (title on object) A series of shells (series title) Kaitsukushi (series title on object), Ten shells with three poems, molluscs (shell, snail shell etc.), Totoya Hokkei (mentioned o...
EditorialStrip of needle lace with snail shell, Strip of natural colored needle lace: Venetian relief lace. Despite repairs, an axis of symmetry can be recognized, on the sides of which two large, extending arabesque leaves are turned towards each other. They s...
EditorialForgotten shell, plum blossom shell and cherry shell Wasuregai, umenohanagai, sakuragai (title on object) A series of shells (series title) Kaitsukushi (series title on object), Larger gray shell with pink saw shell and other shells. With three poems, ...
EditorialPlover shells, raw mussel and brocade shell Chidorigai namakaki nishikigai (title on object) A series of shells (series title) Kaitsukushi (series title on object), A large mussel, a gray pecten and five smaller ones shells. With three poems, one poem ...
EditorialPurple shell, freshwater clams and a turban shell Murasakigai shijimi sazae (title on object) A series of shells (series title) Kaitsukushi (series title on object), A large turban shovel (sazae) with three freshwater clams and smaller shells. With two...
EditorialLobster with shells, A lobster with a few shells. The most famous lobster comes from the Ise province and are therefore called Ise lobsters. This reference is also made in the poem: The Ise lobster has the color of a red morning mist rising from the wi...
EditorialCovered box in the shape of a conch, Box with porcelain lid, covered with brown and blue glaze The box is irregularly shaped to a shell with smaller shells on top, the lid with the same decoration, molluscs (shell, snail-shell etc.), anonymous, Japan, ...
EditorialFreshwater mussel and Japanese sun-and-moon mantelpiece Karasugai tsukihigai (title on object) A series of shells (series title) Kaitsukushi (series title on object), A Japanese mantle shell with a freshwater mussel and some seaweed. The sun and moon s...
EditorialShell of a sea snail, Gevoornde Belhoorn. / Tonne, Shell of a sea snail. Numbered top right: 13. Part of the sixth album with drawings of fish, shells and insects. Sixth of twelve albums with drawings of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, com...
EditorialShell from V.O.C. ship the 'Witte Leeuw', molluscs (shell, snail-shell etc.), Saint Helena, Dutch East India Company, niet van toepassing, before 1613, l 6.0 cm ? w 4.0 cm ? h 2.4 cm.
EditorialPsalm 103; mound with reptiles. Luttrell psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] Psalm 103. Border decoration including a bird grotesque with a large snail-shell on its head. Lower margin; green mound crawling with reptiles of di...
EditorialBreaking clods. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. {Whole folio] End of Psalm 94. Psalm 95 beginning with initial 'C', three laymen singing from a roll of music. Border decoration with grotesques, including a crane with a snail-s...
EditorialIllustrations from the Froissart manuscript in the British Museum. Calligraphic title page with illuminated panel showing mermaid and knight emerging from a snail shell with legs and tail. Handcoloured lithograph after an illuminated manuscript from Si...
EditorialJacques de Helly brings news of the terrible defeat at the Battle of Nicopolis and letters from the captured knights to King Charles VI of France, 1396. Sultan Bayezid demanded a ransom for his prisoners. Illuminated panel with bird in a snail shell an...