EditorialTin Mirror Frame with 2 Candle Sockets. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 28.8 x 36.6 cm (11 5/16 x 14 7/16 in.) Original IAD Object: Approximately 15"wide. Medium: watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, and graphite on paper.
EditorialTin Mirror Frame with 2 Candle Sockets. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 28.8 x 36.6 cm (11 5/16 x 14 7/16 in.) Original IAD Object: Approximately 15"wide. Medium: watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, and graphite on paper.
EditorialChariot fragments, sockets, Archaic, ca. 500?480 B.C., Etruscan, Bronze, Iron, 6 7/8 ? 8 1/2 in. (17.5 ? 21.6 cm), Bronzes, Large collection of bronze and iron attachments once belonging to a chariot.
EditorialChariot fragments, sockets, Archaic, ca. 500?480 B.C., Etruscan, Bronze, Iron, 1: 5 1/2 ? 4 in. (14 ? 10.2 cm), Bronzes, Large collection of bronze and iron attachments once belonging to a chariot.
EditorialChariot fragments, sockets, Archaic, ca. 500?480 B.C., Etruscan, Bronze, 1 1/16in. (2.7cm), Bronzes, Large collection of bronze and iron attachments once belonging to a chariot.
EditorialChariot fragments, rectangular sockets, Archaic, ca. 500?480 B.C., Etruscan, Bronze, 1: 2 7/8 ? 2 7/8 in. (7.3 ? 7.3 cm), Bronzes, Large collection of bronze and iron attachments once belonging to a chariot.
EditorialChariot fragments, sockets with Medusa masks, Archaic, ca. 500?480 B.C., Etruscan, Bronze, Body diameter (1): 2 5/16 in. (6 cm), Bronzes, Large collection of bronze and iron attachments once belonging to a chariot.
EditorialWinged bull with human torso and head and clasped hands, from Toprakkale, eastern Anatolia, around 700 BCE. This bronze figure was part of the decoration of a throne. The missing face and horns were probably made of ivory and the sockets and wings once...
EditorialGlass head pendant, Hellenistic, 3rd?1st century B.C., Carthaginian or Eastern Mediterranean, Glass; rod-formed and trailed, Other: 3/4 x 7/16 x 3/8 in. (1.9 x 1.1 x 1 cm), Glass, Translucent blue and opaque yellow., Oval with irregular flat back; smal...
EditorialGlass head pendant, Hellenistic, 3rd?1st century B.C., Carthaginian or Eastern Mediterranean, Glass; rod-formed and trailed, Other: 3/4 x 3/8 x 7/16 in. (1.9 x 1 x 1.1 cm), Glass, Translucent blue, appearing opaque black, and opaque yellow., Oval with ...
EditorialGlass head pendant, Hellenistic, 3rd?1st century B.C., Carthaginian or Eastern Mediterranean, Glass, Other: 1 x 11/16 x 7/16 in. (2.5 x 1.7 x 1.2 cm), Glass, Translucent blue, appearing opaque black, and opaque yellow., Oval with uneven, irregular back...
EditorialChariot fragments, sockets, Archaic, ca. 500?480 B.C., Etruscan, Bronze, Iron, 6 7/8 ? 8 1/2 in. (17.5 ? 21.6 cm), Bronzes, Large collection of bronze and iron attachments once belonging to a chariot.
EditorialChariot fragments, sockets, Archaic, ca. 500?480 B.C., Etruscan, Bronze, Iron, 1: 5 1/2 ? 4 in. (14 ? 10.2 cm), Bronzes, Large collection of bronze and iron attachments once belonging to a chariot.
EditorialChariot fragments, sockets, Archaic, ca. 500?480 B.C., Etruscan, Bronze, 1 1/16in. (2.7cm), Bronzes, Large collection of bronze and iron attachments once belonging to a chariot.
EditorialChariot fragments, rectangular sockets, Archaic, ca. 500?480 B.C., Etruscan, Bronze, 1: 2 7/8 ? 2 7/8 in. (7.3 ? 7.3 cm), Bronzes, Large collection of bronze and iron attachments once belonging to a chariot.
EditorialChariot fragments, sockets with Medusa masks, Archaic, ca. 500?480 B.C., Etruscan, Bronze, Body diameter (1): 2 5/16 in. (6 cm), Bronzes, Large collection of bronze and iron attachments once belonging to a chariot.
EditorialPendant Figure, 13th?15th century, Dominican Republic, Caribbean, Distrito Nacional, La Caleta, reportedly, Taino, Stone, H. 3 x W. 1 1/4 x D. 1 1/4 in., Stone-Ornaments, Death imagery in the form of skeletal figures and skulls with deep eye sockets an...
EditorialPendant Mask, 13th?15th century, Dominican Republic, Caribbean, Hiqu?y, Macao area, reportedly, Taino, Bone, H. 3-5/8 x W. 3 7/8 in., Bone/Ivory-Ornaments, Large, prominent eye sockets and evenly matched teeth exhibit the skeletonization of human and a...
EditorialThe Quetzal-Mariposa Palace within the Teotihuacan Ceremonial Center. The rooms, arranges around a court-yard, belong to the priestly residences. The square pillars show reliefs of the quetzal-bird; the eye-sockets of the birds are inlaid with obsidian...
EditorialDetail of a turquois mosaic of a double-headed serpent, Aztec / Mixtec. It is carved in wood and covered with turquois mosaic. The eye sockets were probably inlaid with iron pyrites and shell. This ornment was probablyworn as a pectoral on ceremonial o...
EditorialPlastered skull from Jericho, 7000-6000 BCE. The removal of the skull and its separate burial was widely practiced in the Levant during the 7th millenium BCE. The lower jaw was often removed and the skull remodelled with plaster to build up the facial ...
EditorialGypsum head of a man, from Sippar, southern Iraq, early Dynastic period, 2500 BCE. This very worn head was probably once part of a votive figurine, set up in a temple in Sippar to pray on behalf of the donor. The eyes would originally have been inlaid;...
EditorialCoffin of Hor,22nd dynasty,around 850 BCE. The falcon-headed god Horus is shown on the inside. The mummified body of a man called Hor was x-rayed in the 1960s. No fractures or medical conditions were found; he had been circumsized; artificial eyes had ...
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