EditorialVest, Medium: silk, indigo Technique: stencil-applied rice resist, indigo dyed (katazome) on plain weave, Woven silk vest with stencil-applied resist pattern of lanterns and flowering vines in indigo. Ground covered in delicate white lines, suggesting ...
EditorialTeapot with Chinoiserie Vignettes, Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, German, established 1763, hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold, A white rounded teapot with very delicate spout and handle. Three figures and a fourth on a raised seat in an...
EditorialWaistcoat, Medium: silk embroidery on silk foundation Technique: embroidered in chain stitch on ribbed plain weave, Waistcoat with standing collar and slightly curved hem, in green grosgrain silk embroidered with silk thread in a delicate pink and gree...
EditorialSneak peek inside Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolies Fleur de Miraval estate as former couple prepare to launch $390-a-pop rosé Champagne this week
EditorialTerracotta hydria (water jar), Late Classical, 4th century B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; black-glaze, H. 15 1/2 in. (39.4 cm), Vases, This extraordinarily beautiful vase is decorated at the neck with a wreath of vine tendrils and gilded leaves. There...
EditorialLantern Slide - 'Delicate Owls', 1920-1940, Coloured lantern slide depicting two juvenile delicate owls in a natural woodland setting. Image by J. R. Kinghorn, (1891-1983), zoologist, museum curator and broadcaster. Kinghorn was employed at the Austral...
EditorialTerracotta hydria (water jar), Late Classical, 4th century B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; black-glaze, H. 15 1/2 in. (39.4 cm), Vases, This extraordinarily beautiful vase is decorated at the neck with a wreath of vine tendrils and gilded leaves. There...