EditorialModel of a Fan, Model of a fan operating as a double bellows. Part of the cover can be removed to show the inside. In the body, which has the shape of a circle segment at its point, a plank moves back and forth, hinged at the point. The board is pulled...
EditorialFragments of cow hair from the wreck of the East Indies shipwreck 't Vliegend Hart, which probably died in 1735. The fragment is a flat square consisting of loose, compressed cow hairs. These hairs were used to seal / caulk seams. It is orange in color...
EditorialPhotograph - Schumacher Mill Furnishing Works, 'Compressed Air Spray Unit Equipment', Port Melbourne, Victoria, circa 1940s, Black and white promotional image of compressed air spray unit equipment. It is part of a collection of photographs and marked ...
EditorialZeus faber, Print, John Dory, St Pierre or Peter's Fish, refers to fish of the genus Zeus, especially Zeus faber, of widespread distribution. It is an edible demersal coastal marine fish with a laterally compressed olive-yellow body which has a large d...
EditorialSerrasalmo piraya, Print, The fish Pygocentrus piraya, often called the piraya piranha or San Francisco piranha, and sometimes sold as the man-eating piranha, is a large, aggressive piranha from the S?o Francisco River basin in Brazil. It is one of the...
EditorialQuadruped (one of five medallions from a coffret), ca. 1110?30, Made in Conques, France, French, Copper-gilt, champlev? enamel, Overall: 3 9/16 x 9/16 in. (9 x 1.4 cm), Enamels-Champlev?, The blue and green beasts, locked in battle and compressed into ...
EditorialWinged Dragon (one of five medallions from a coffret), ca. 1110?30, Made in Conques, France, French, Copper-gilt, champlev? enamel, Overall: 3 9/16 x 9/16 in. (9 x 1.4 cm), Enamels-Champlev?, The blue and green beasts, locked in battle and compressed i...
EditorialThe Birth of Annette, ca. 1899, Color lithograph on China paper; trial proof of undescribed early state, sheet: 16 7/8 x 22 3/8 in. (42.9 x 56.8 cm), Prints, ?douard Vuillard (French, Cuiseaux 1868?1940 La Baule), In his multicolored prints of the late...
EditorialEagle Attacking a Fish (one of five medallions from a coffret), ca. 1110?30, Made in Conques, France, French, Copper-gilt, champlev? enamel, Overall: 3 9/16 x 9/16 in. (9 x 1.5 cm), Enamels-Champlev?, The blue and green beasts, locked in battle and com...
EditorialCombat Between Dragon and Dog (one of five medallions from a coffret), ca. 1110?30, Made in Conques, France, French, Copper-gilt, champlev? enamel, Overall: 3 9/16 x 1/2 in. (9 x 1.3 cm), Enamels-Champlev?, The blue and green beasts, locked in battle a...
EditorialTeapot, J.E. Terry and Co., 1820?21, British, London, Silver, wood, Height (approximate): 7 in. (17.8 cm), Metalwork-Silver, J.E. Terry and Co., Prominently displayed within shaped shields are the arms of Sir George Wombwell, second baronet (1769?1846)...
EditorialGlass mosaic inlay, Hellenistic, 1st century B.C.?1st century A.D., Egyptian, Roman, Glass; cast, Other: 1 7/16 in. (3.6 cm), Glass, Translucent cobalt blue ground; decoration in opaque white, yellow, red, and grayish green., Polygonal, flat, and very ...
EditorialTraveling set in leather case, mid-18th century, Hungarian, Silver, partly gilded, steel, tooled leather, Length (Knife [a]): 9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm), Metalwork-Silver, It is amazing that eight implements could be compressed into this leather case. Though ...
EditorialSwitzerland. 19th century. Locomotive driven by compressed air used for the drilling of Saint-Gothard. Colored engraving of "The Spanish and American Illustration," 1875.
EditorialSwitzerland. 19th century. Locomotive driven by compressed air used for the drilling of Saint-Gothard. Engraving of "The Spanish and American Illustration," 1875.