EditorialAt this moment, we perceive in front of us, threatening at the top of its embankment, perpendicular to our race, a locomotive in motion dragging its tender and two wagons ..., Hot air balloon G?ant by Felix Nadar before the crash near Neustadt am R?ben...
EditorialAloe African- perpendicular triangular, Aloe viscosa Sp. I, Fig. 31, after p. 82, p. 157, 1703, Caspari Commelin ... Praeludia botanica ad publicas plantarum exoticarum demonstrationes, dicta in horto medico ... his accedunt plantarum rariorum et exoti...
EditorialCandle holder consisting of a sleeve for the candle and two perpendicular pins, Candle holder consisting of a sleeve for the candle and two perpendicular pins. The majority of deer candle cases have been demolished, Nova Zembla, Behouden Huys, Willem B...
EditorialTin jug, also called 'pipe jug.' The stand ring and the lip edge are profiled. The jug is closed with a curved, profiled lid. The thumb rest is decorated with two acorns and merges into the handle via a single hinge. The spout is perpendicular to the h...
EditorialFire screen with landscape preservation (fragment), Fire screen resting on two two console-shaped legs placed mutually perpendicular to each other and ending in a Janus head. The bottom rail is open and shows a man's head flanked by a lambrequin patter...
EditorialCandle holder consisting of a sleeve for a candle and two perpendicular pins, Nova Zembla, Behouden Huys, Willem Barendsz, Jacob van Heemskerck, anonymous, Amsterdam, c. 1590 - c. 1596, iron (metal), forging, h 14.2 cm ? w 6.5 cm ? d 2.6.
EditorialAngle meter, The object consists of the following twelve movable parts: two arms composed of three layers of metal (whereby the middle part of the right arm can be expanded again to an angle of 90 degrees), as well as a third arm which, due to the cons...
EditorialSerpent glass with ground bowl, conical foot with folded rim. The trunk built from a ribbed wire, curved in the shape of an eight, with two times two perpendicular wings of ribbed and twisted wires, trimmed with a pinched comb ornament. Vertically ribb...
EditorialCandle holder consisting of a sleeve for a candle and two perpendicular pins, Candle holder consisting of a sleeve for a candle and two perpendicular pins. A piece of the candle shell is broken off, Nova Zembla, Behouden Huys, Willem Barendsz, Jacob va...
EditorialModel of a Jeer, Model of a mine consisting of two blocks. Each block has two rows of discs that are perpendicular to each other, the blocks are connected by the hoist so that outer and inner rows of disks run parallel. The outer row of disks of the up...
EditorialHand lead with octagonal elongated cone, below a hollow (soul) and at the top a hole to attach it to the perpendicular, Nova Zembla, Behouden Huys, Willem Barendsz, Jacob van Heemskerck, anonymous, c. 1590 - c. 1596, founding, h 28 cm d 3.5 cm w 248 gr.
EditorialModel of a Sounding Lead, Model of a deep red, painted black, incomplete. It consists of a ball attached to a round bar. This rod hangs with two arms on a double line, which must be attached to the perpendicular, the arms fall as soon as the weight of ...
EditorialA crutch for Willem Barentsz? Walking stick, presumably from Willem Barendsz, Stick or walking stick with a handle perpendicular to the stick and at the bottom a half-round leg (flat side below, convex side above). A piece of rope is wrapped around the...
EditorialMilk jug with birds in a landscape, Porcelain milk jug with an egg-shaped body, straight spout ending in an animal head and perpendicular to it a curled ear in the shape of a leaf tendril. Painted on the enamel in enamel colors and gold. On the belly t...
EditorialFragment of a children's tunica, ocher-colored linen fragment of a children's tunic with sewn-on decoration of two perpendicular straight strips and a strip mounted in a circle. These decorations have a red woolen ground with stepped sling motif in bei...
EditorialGrand Piano, 1792, London, England, United Kingdom, British, Mahogany, oak, curly maple, ivory, ebony, brass and various materials, Case length (perpendicular to keyboard): 226.5 cm (89 3/16 in.), Chordophone-Zither-struck-piano, John Broadwood (1732?1...
EditorialMilk jug with birds in a landscape, Porcelain milk jug with an egg-shaped body, straight spout ending in an animal head and perpendicular to it a curled ear in the shape of a leaf tendril. Painted on the enamel in enamel colors and gold. On the belly t...
EditorialBeaded purse with a gold bracket and hook, The cast purse bracket consists of two equal, hingedly connected, arcuate halves with a scalloped contour. A wide, smooth top edge is attached perpendicular to one of these two halves. Each bracket half shows ...
EditorialTin jug with lid, Small tin jug. A baluster-shaped body rests on the stand ring. The lip edge is decorated with two profiled bands. The slightly curved lid contains a flat thumb rest with a double-hinged hinge. From here, the handle extends to the cent...
EditorialAtrypa, Print, Atrypa is a genus of brachiopod with shells round to short egg-shaped, covered with many fine radial ridges (or costae), that split further out and growthlines perpendicular to the costae and 2-3 times wider spaced. The pedunculate valve...
EditorialEgg-shaped bottle made from an ostrich eggshell: four perpendicular bronze strips along the body, two of them hold the handle. From Jerusalem Hyxos Period Height 17.6 cm.
EditorialArched Harp (shoulder harp), New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, late, ca. 1390?1295 B.C., From Egypt, Wood, L. (diagonally) 82 cm (32 5/16 in); l. of sound box 36 cm (14 3/16 in), Egyptian arched harps from Dynasty 4 onward coexisted with a great variety of harp...
EditorialUpright Piano and Reed Organ, ca. 1835 (?), United States, American, Various materials, Case length (perpendicular to keyboard) 57.3, Width (parallel to keyboard) 115.1 cm, Total height 212.0 cm, 3-octave span 47.2 cm, Chordophone and Aerophone-struck ...
EditorialCabinet Piano, ca. 1835, United Kingdom, British, Various materials, Case length not including handles (perpendicular to keyboard): 61 cm, Chordophone-Zither-struck-piano, John Broadwood & Sons.
EditorialUpright (Giraffe) Piano, 1810, Austria, Austrian, Wood, various materials, Case L. (perpendicular to keyboard): 55.3 cm (21-7/8 in.; W. parallel to keyboard): 115.8 cm (45-5/8 in.);H.: 199.5 cm (78-5/8 in.); 3-octave span: 47.7 cm (18-7/8 in.); Vibrati...
EditorialGrand Piano, 1792, London, England, United Kingdom, British, Mahogany, oak, curly maple, ivory, ebony, brass and various materials, Case length (perpendicular to keyboard): 226.5 cm (89 3/16 in.), Chordophone-Zither-struck-piano, John Broadwood (1732?1...
EditorialSquare 'Work Box' Piano, first quarter 19th century, Austria or Germany, Austrian or German, Various materials, Case length (perpendicular to keyboard) 42.0 cm, Width (parallel to keyboard) 72.5 cm, Case depth (without lid) 17.0 cm, Total height 83.5 c...
EditorialHarmonium, after 1886, Paris, France, French, Wood, various materials, H.: 112.8 cm (44-1/2 in.); W.: 127.9 cm (50-3/8 in.); L. (perpendicular to keyboard): 69.7 cm (27-1/2 in.); 3-octave span: 49 cm (19-38 in.); H. of chair: 94.6 (37-1/4 in.), Aeropho...
EditorialGarden bed plan 1, forcing frame 2, pulley 3, perpendicular pulley 4, transplanting instrument 5, handglass 6, rose 7, and watering pot 8. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from James Maddock's "The Florist's Directory," London, John Harding, 1810. Ne...
EditorialEgg-shaped bottle made from an ostrich eggshell: four perpendicular bronze strips along the body, two of them hold the handle. From Jerusalem Hyxos Period Height 17.6 cm.