EditorialDecorative Design for Ceiling, Felice Giani, Italian, 17581823, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over traces of graphite on cream laid paper, Central tondo with vestal Tuccia; four small octagons with scene of sacrifice. Four tondi in corners sh...
EditorialWallpaper Design, Brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on heavy white wove paper, A dado is shown at the bottom, an entablature on top. Panel has a lilac ground, decorated with rows of spherical octagons with plant motifs in the scheme of steering w...
EditorialFragment, Medium: cotton Technique: resist-printed on plain weave, Coarse undyed cotton plain cloth forms design against red ground. At right, broad incomplete border of rosettes with octagons, dots, and geometric forms. At left, plain red ground at to...
EditorialDesign for Theater Ceiling, Giuseppe Borsato, Italian, 1770 - 1840, Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on paper, Vertical format. Form of a horseshoe, similar to 1940-21-22. The central panel has the same shape. In the center is...
EditorialSidewall, Machine-printed paper, Large octagons containing gray and white morning glories against gray background, set within strong blue, white and dark gray border, alternating with cartouche containing gray and white flowers, gray background., USA, ...
EditorialCeiling paper, Henry Gledhill & Co., 1889 1900, Machine-printed paper, liquid mica, Tile design with quatrefoil motifs at intersection of octagons. Each octogaon has an inset circle. Printed in tan, green, yellow ocher, and white mica on light yellow o...
EditorialDesign for a Woven Fabric, Brush and blue, purple, and leteritious gouache on oily tracing paper, Same style as 1909-13-106. Five rows of two repeats each are shown. The repeat consists of an eight-pointed start in an octagon in the top and bottom rows...
EditorialFragment, Medium: wool, Fragment with a reversible desgin in tan against brown ground on face and the reverse on the back. Design has octagons, each enclosing a bird., Egypt, 5th century, woven textiles, Fragment.
EditorialJustice and Strength, in Two Octagons, Felice Giani, Italian, 17581823, Pen and dark brown ink, brush and greyish-brown wash over traces of graphite on textured laid paper, Top: woman, with civic crown shown holding sword and pair of scales, seated in ...
EditorialSidewall, Block-printed on handmade paper, joined sheets, Vertical rectangle on joined sheets of paper. Diagonally-running lattice design overlaid with alternating square and oblong octagons; the square octagons enclose a chair with vase, or a ewer wit...
EditorialCeiling paper, Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA, Machine-printed paper, Grid or trellis pattern, octagonal shapes with flourish in center, linked to other octagons by square with quatrefoil in center. Printed in brown, green, and tan on back...
EditorialCupid and Psyche: Four Octagons and Eight Drawings of Cupid, Felice Giani, Italian, 17581823, Pen and dark brown ink, brush and brown watercolor wash over traces of graphite, on laid paper, Top center: in a landscape, Psyche lies nude in the lap of sea...
EditorialNight and Day, in Two Octagons, for a Bedroom, Felice Giani, Italian, 17581823, Pen and dark brown ink on heavy laid paper, Top: Selene rides upon chariot with two horses towards left. Flying putto with torch accompanies her. Trophy consisting of bow a...
EditorialCobham Hall, Kent: Section of Tower Staircase, James Wyatt, 17461813, British, ca. 1790, Graphite, pen and brown and black ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper with one fold mark, Sheet: 18 x 12 5/8 inches (45.7 x 32 cm), arch...
EditorialOrbit silk damask with a pattern of sheets with leafwork, linked hexagons filled with flowers, lobed rectangle filled with birds and dragons and the like, Orbit silk damask with a relatively large design of sheets with leafwork, two switched hexagons f...
EditorialPlatonic body formed from octagons and squares, Polyhedron, 41, F. 75v, p. 157, D?rer, Albrecht, 1525, Albrecht D?rer: Underweysung der Messung, mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt, in Linien ebnen unnd gantzen Corporen. [N?rnberg], [s. n.], [1525.].
EditorialPaper wallpaper with a pattern of faceted octagons, Paper wallpaper with a pattern of faceted octagons in two colors of gray on a natural colored ground. Block print with a continuous pattern on a satin finish., Jules Desfoss? (workshop of), Paris, c. ...
EditorialFragment samiet, Tissue fragment with a red pattern on green ground, consisting of octagons, alternately filled with a deer jumping to the right or a dog walking to the left. A stylized floral pattern between the octagons. The pattern is interrupted by...
EditorialFolding chair made of elm wood, with leather back and seat, and resting on semi-circular legs, which are connected to semi-circular posts. The legs are on connecting spools. The armrests are slightly hollowed out, end in volutes and rise in the back po...
EditorialOrbit silk damask with a pattern of sheets with leafwork, linked hexagons filled with flowers, lobed rectangle filled with birds and dragons and the like, Orbit silk damask with a relatively large design of sheets with leafwork, two switched hexagons f...
EditorialTabula, Tabula in linen chain and wool weft. On a purple ground in the center a square with in the middle a natural colored woven cross around which four octagons with compound crosses. Around it two frames with on the one hand a weaving motif and a co...
EditorialTent pocket cover, Cover for an animal. The midfield is decorated with a flower within a window. Left and right intersected by concentric windows. Edge shaded with octagons. A beard on top and bottom., Ersari volk, Oost-Turkmenie, c. 1850 - c. 1900, ke...