EditorialBox from Traces suspectes en surface. Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925-2008); text by Alain Robbe-Grillet (French, 1922-2008); box built by Carolyn Horton; published by Universal Limited Art Editions (American, founded 1955). Date: 1972-1978. Dimens...
EditorialThe Kill, 300-100 BC. China, late Warring States period (475-221 BC) to Western Han dynasty (202 BC-AD 9). Painted clamshell; overall: 7.5 x 9 cm (2 15/16 x 3 9/16 in.).
EditorialThe Hunt, 300-100 BC. China, late Warring States period (475-221 BC) to Western Han dynasty (202 BC-AD 9). Painted clamshell; overall: 7.5 x 9 cm (2 15/16 x 3 9/16 in.).
EditorialBox from Traces suspectes en surface. Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925-2008); text by Alain Robbe-Grillet (French, 1922-2008); box built by Carolyn Horton; published by Universal Limited Art Editions (American, founded 1955). Date: 1972-1978. Dimens...
EditorialFigured Gift Basket. Pomo; Northern California, United States. Date: 1885-1895. Dimensions: 10.2 ? 17.8 cm (4 ? 7 in.). Vegetable fibers, glass and clamshell beads, and quail feathers. Origin: California.
EditorialGabrielle d'Estrees, Marchioness of Monceaux, mistress of King Henry IV of France, 1571-1599. She wears her blonde hair tied in a pearl lattice, three-tier lace ruff collar, dress with slashed sleeves and corset, French clamshell farthingale or vertuga...
EditorialClamshell orchid, Prosthechea cochleata (Epidendrum cochleatum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke after George Loddiges from Conrad Loddiges' Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1817.
EditorialCatherine-Henriette de Balzac d'Etragues, Marquise de Verneuil, mistress of King Henry IV of France, 1579-1633. She wears her hair tied up with a ribbon of roses, a velvet dress with corset and French vertugadin or clamshell farthingale, slashed sleeve...
EditorialCharlotte de Montmorenci, wife to Henri de Bourbon, Prince of Conde, 1594-1650. She wears her hair tied up with ribbons, an upright lace collar, pearl necklaces, dress with embroidered corset, slashed sleeves, French farthingale or clamshell vertugadin...
EditorialGabrielle d'Estrees, Marchioness of Monceaux, mistress of King Henry IV of France, 1571-1599. She wears her blonde hair tied in a pearl lattice, three-tier lace ruff collar, dress with slashed sleeves and corset, French clamshell farthingale or vertuga...
EditorialJewelry from the end of the 15th and early 16th centuries. Brooch in the form of a painted shield A,B, bijou C, decorated clamshell clasp D,E, Gothic style girdle fasteners G,F, bust of a woman I, and ring K,L. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's "...
EditorialGabrielle d'Estrees, Marchioness of Monceaux, mistress of King Henry IV of France, 1571-1599. She wears her blonde hair tied in a pearl lattice, three-tier lace ruff collar, dress with slashed sleeves and corset, French clamshell farthingale or vertuga...
EditorialClamshell orchid, Prosthechea cochleata (Epidendrum cochleatum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke after George Loddiges from Conrad Loddiges' Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1817.
EditorialCatherine-Henriette de Balzac d'Etragues, Marquise de Verneuil, mistress of King Henry IV of France, 1579-1633. She wears her hair tied up with a ribbon of roses, a velvet dress with corset and French vertugadin or clamshell farthingale, slashed sleeve...
EditorialCharlotte de Montmorenci, wife to Henri de Bourbon, Prince of Conde, 1594-1650. She wears her hair tied up with ribbons, an upright lace collar, pearl necklaces, dress with embroidered corset, slashed sleeves, French farthingale or clamshell vertugadin...
EditorialJewelry from the end of the 15th and early 16th centuries. Brooch in the form of a painted shield A,B, bijou C, decorated clamshell clasp D,E, Gothic style girdle fasteners G,F, bust of a woman I, and ring K,L. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's "...
EditorialNeptune, Roman god of the sea, in wreath and cape, holding a trident, sitting on a clamshell throne. Handcoloured copperplate engraving engraved by Jacques Louis Constant Lacerf after illustrations by Leonard Defraine from "La Mythologie en Estampes" (...
EditorialClamshell orchid, Epidendrum cochleatum, native to central and south America and the Caribbean. Handcoloured stipple engraving on copper by Barrois from a botanical illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Mordant de Launay's "Herbier General de l'Amateur,"...