EditorialFILE PHOTO: General view of empty railway tracks during a nationwide strike by Germany's train drivers' union GDL, at Essen's main railway station
EditorialStatuette of Isis nursing Horus (missing above the legs), inscribed for Hor son of Padihorresnet, Late Period, Saite, Dynasty 26, 611?594 B.C., From Egypt, Bronze, gilded silver, electrum; separate leaded bronze throne, H. 39.3 ? W. 12.3 ? D. 18.8 cm (...
EditorialChristies to auction Michael Jordan game-worn, dual-signed and photo-matched Air Jordan hes got game XIIIs last dance championship sneakers from the last regular season game against the New York Knicks
EditorialRank badge, Medium: silk, metallic yarns Technique: plain weave with discontinuous wefts (tapestry or k'ossu), open slits, Most of a Ming dynasty Sixth Rank square showing a pair of egrets with spread wings arched across a gold sky filled with brightly...
EditorialDish, Plooischotel with a passionate depiction on the shelf of a man and a woman, braiding a floral wreath together, The round dish rests on a stand ring and has a wide rim, made up of eight gnats with soft, bony-like driven frames in which mask-like m...
EditorialDish, Plooischotel with a passionate depiction on the shelf of a man and a woman, braiding a floral wreath together, The round dish rests on a stand ring and has a wide rim, made up of eight gnats with soft, bony-like driven frames in which mask-like m...
EditorialTerracotta stemmed dish, Archaic, late 6th?early 5th century B.C., Greek, Attic?, Terracotta; black-glaze, H. 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm), Vases, The shape of this vase is exceedingly unusual. The stem and foot recall those of black-figure drinking cups of the ...
EditorialTerracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup), Archaic, ca. 500 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; black-figure, H. 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm); diameter 6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm); width with handles 8 1/4 in. (21 cm), Vases, Guinea fowl. Birds appear with some frequency on v...
EditorialTerracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup), Late Archaic, early 5th century B.C., Greek, Corinthian, Terracotta; black-glaze, H. x width 3 7/8 x 8 in. (9.9 x 20.3 cm); diameter 5 5/16 in. (13.5 cm), Vases, Although Attica stood in the forefront of the prod...
EditorialBronze helmet of Corinthian type, Archaic, early 6th century B.C., Greek, Bronze, Overall: 8 5/8 x 7 3/4 x 11 in. (21.9 x 19.7 x 27.9 cm), Bronzes, The helmet represents a characteristic form of the late seventh and early sixth century B.C. Unusual, ho...
EditorialMonth cup from the sixt month with a lotus and a poem, Bell-shaped porcelain cup, painted in underglaze blue and on the glaze blue, red, green, yellow, eggplant and black. Monthly cup of the sixth month with on the outside wall a lotus plant and a two-...