EditorialFILE PHOTO: Customers dine near a giant screen broadcasting news footage of the Eastern Theatre Command of PLA taking part in an exercises around Taiwan, at a restaurant in Beijing
EditorialFILE PHOTO: Nuclear-powered Type 094A Jin-class ballistic missile submarine of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy is seen during a military display in the South China Sea
EditorialFILE PHOTO: Nuclear-powered Type 094A Jin-class ballistic missile submarine of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy is seen during a military display in the South China Sea
EditorialFILE PHOTO: Nuclear-powered Type 094A Jin-class ballistic missile submarine of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy is seen during a military display in the South China Sea
EditorialFILE PHOTO: Nuclear-powered Type 094A Jin-class ballistic missile submarine of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy is seen during a military display in the South China Sea
EditorialMantilla, Medium: silk Technique: bobbin lace, Chantilly style Label: silk bobbin lace, Square mantilla of black Chantilly lace with a cross in the center and a design of floral swags forming a deeply scalloped innter border; bunches of flowers are pla...
EditorialMedalist: Pisanello (Antonio Pisano), Sigismondo Malatesta, as Captain General of the Roman Church, Italian, Medalist: Pisanello (Antonio Pisano) (Italian, Pisa or Verona by 13951455), 1445, Italian, Bronze, Diameter: 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm), Medals and Pla...
EditorialPlate with two schematic figures in a fenced garden, Porcelain plate with a scalloped edge, painted in underglaze blue. On the shelf two schematic persons in a fenced garden with flowering plants in the background. The edge with a band of flowering pla...
EditorialTeapot with lid, painted in underglaze blue with leaves, Teapot of painted porcelain. The pot has an S-shaped ear and an octagonal spout. The body is decorated with three rows of staggered ribs in relief. The painting consists of stylized flowering pla...
EditorialBox, One of a few ko-dogu. Square box, tied in at the corners, consisting of four sections and a lid. (Cf.MAK 147) Golden swastika motifs against black ground., anonymous, Japan, 1700 - 1900, Edo-period (1600-1868) / Meiji-period (1868-1912), wood (pla...
EditorialPlate with a cross surrounded by flowers on the shelf, Plate of earthenware with liquid blue and orange transfer decor, painted with orange and gold. The flat is divided into four by means of a cross and is decorated with flowers. The border of the pla...
EditorialFire plate and fire screen on fire plate, Rectangular fire plate on four profiled, curved legs, on one long side a standing fire plate with round top and on a short side a fire screen. A six-pointed star is engraved in a circle in the standing fire pla...