EditorialCover of a mirror case with a man and a woman playing chess Cover of a mirror box with a young man and a woman at the chess game, Under a opened tent a young man and a woman are sitting on a couch with a chess game on their knees. The man on the left h...
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...
EditorialSampler, Medium: silk embroidery, linen foundation Technique: cross, birds-eye and satin stitches on plain weave, House, horse, flowers and alphabets with a floral border., Europe, mid-19th century, embroidery & stitching, Sampler.
EditorialDish with Chinese ladies in a fenced garden and flowering plants near a rock, Deep porcelain dish with a lobed edge, painted in underglaze blue. On the flat in a medallion a Chinese lady (long list) on a horse in an enclosed garden. Opposite her anothe...
EditorialDish with Chinese ladies in a fenced garden and flowering plants near a rock, Deep porcelain dish with a lobed edge, painted in underglaze blue. On the flat in a medallion a Chinese lady (long list) on a horse in an enclosed garden. Opposite her anothe...
EditorialTerracotta conical lekythos (vase for oil), Early Protocorinthian, ca. 700 B.C., Greek, Corinthian, Terracotta, H. 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm), Vases, The decoration combines birds, fish, horses, and a wolf in an exuberantly dynamic composition. Of particular n...
EditorialPlate, with a man and child on horseback in front of a mill on the shelf, Plate of earthenware with multi-colored transfer decor. On the flat a man with a child on horseback and a child who feeds the horse. In the foreground a dog drives away a group o...