EditorialChalice, Chalice of gilt silver, on a six-lobed foot, decorated with cherubs and Louis XVIth band ornament. The smooth chalice is enclosed in a broad band with the same decoration as on the foot, cherubs, i.e. children's heads with wings, Johann Sebast...
EditorialAlbum - Olympic Games, Melbourne, 1956, Album produced as a souvenir of the 1956 Olympics which were held in Melbourne, Australia. The unused album has a metal plaque attached to the cover that features an image of a sprinter, the Olympic rings and dat...
EditorialFirst Day Cover - Olympic Games, Australia, 1956, First Day Cover produced in 1956 as a souvenir of the Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia. The stamped, addressed and franked envelope is sealed but empty. It was posted to the donor's mother's father...
EditorialJacques Necker (1732-1804), statesman and economist, Minister of Finance to Louis XVIth; father of Germaine, Madame de Stael. Necker's economic reforms could not prevent the Revolution of 1789.
EditorialPortrait of a man, aged 40. Coats-of-arms painted below. Dated 1536. Hours of the Virgin, the Cross, and the Holy Ghost, with penitential psalms, vigils of the dead, commemorations, etc. xvith cent. Source: Add. 31240. Language: Latin.
EditorialThe Annunciation. An angel appearing to the Virgin Mary. . TWELVE miniatures by Italian artists of the XVth and XVIth centuries, cut out of choral service books. Italy. TWELVE miniatures by Italian artists of the XVth and XVIth centuries, cut out of ch...
EditorialBaptism of Constatine. Date/Period: First half of XVIth century. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 303 mm (11.92 in); Width: 200.50 mm (7.89 in).
EditorialPlate, XVIth Century - XVIIth Century, Pottery (earthenware decorated in blue, black and orange, with the shield of the order of Calatrava, surrounded by scrolls and vegetal motifs), of Talavera de la Reina or Puente del Arzobispo (Toledo), Diameter: 3...
EditorialJacques Necker (1732-1804), statesman and economist, Minister of Finance to Louis XVIth; father of Germaine, Madame de Stael. Necker's economic reforms could not prevent the Revolution of 1789.