EditorialAix sponsa, Print, The wood duck or Carolina duck (Aix sponsa) is a species of perching duck found in North America. It is one of the most colorful North American waterfowl., 1700-1880.
EditorialA starling undeterred by an anti-perching device on a lamppost at LaGuardia Airport in New York, March 25, 2022. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk, metallic thread Technique: plain weave with supplementary weft, Orange ground, faded from red, with a repeat of flowers arranged in a cone shape with a perching bird on the stem. Brocaded in blue, green, white, and grey with gol...
EditorialCravat end, Medium: linen Technique: bobbin lace, Brussels style, In the center of the cravat end is a figure of Minerva below a canopy within symmetric tulip garden setting of balustrades, finials entwined by floral garlands and standing on arched tre...
EditorialCup and Saucer, hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold, a) Flaring cup without handle, on a small foot rim that is gilded. On one side a small sailing vessel with two men and cargo; opposite, a bird perching on branch. b) Plain saucer, painted wit...
EditorialEmbroidered picture, Medium: silk and wool embroidery on silk foundation Technique: embroidered in stem and satin stitches on plain weave foundation; face, hands and sky are painted, Scene of a boy holding a bird's nest in his lap with one bird perchin...
EditorialMezzaro (shawl or headcovering), Medium: cotton Technique: block printed, Mezzaro in a multicolored design on a white ground. Central large-scale tree with many different blossoms. Small flanking tree on either side. Floral sprays, insects, birds and a...
EditorialTextile, Cheney Brothers, (South Manchester, Connecticut, USA), Medium: silk Technique: compound satin weave, Dark blue and beige reproduction textile inspired by a sixteenth century example in the Cooper Union Museum collection. Design has a large-sca...
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk, metallic thread Technique: plain weave with supplementary weft, Orange ground, faded from red, with a repeat of flowers arranged in a cone shape with a perching bird on the stem. Brocaded in blue, green, white, and grey with gol...
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk on cotton Technique: embroidered on plain weave, Textile fragment with yellow silk embroidered on a natural cotton ground. Design showing three horizontal bands of scrolls, a double-headed eagle, dragon-headed scrolls, perching b...
EditorialAves, Print, Birds, also known as Aves or avian dinosaurs, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightw...
EditorialAix sponsa, Print, The wood duck or Carolina duck (Aix sponsa) is a species of perching duck found in North America. It is one of the most colorful North American waterfowl., 1700-1880.
EditorialA caladrius perching at the bedside of a king, illustrating the text that the bird has the power to foretell whether an ill patient will live or die. If the bird turns its back on the patient, the patient is sure to die; however, if the bird faces him ...
EditorialCock and five chickens in a henhouse, two of them perching, two black chickens scratching around, print maker: Jan Gerard Smits (mentioned on object), Dating 1872.