EditorialFILE PHOTO: A view shows a one Russian rouble coin inside a bulb with crude oil at a laboratory in the Irkutsk Oil Company-owned Yarakta Oil Field in Irkutsk Region
EditorialEmbroidered picture, Medium: wool on cotton Technique: split and flat surface embroidery stitches, English schooner in full sail running off tropical island fortress that flies the British flag. Executed in a crude style that depitcs a child-like persp...
EditorialTile, Tin-enameled earthenware, underglaze manganese, overglaze white slip decoration, Square tile. Grayish white ground centered with manganese figures in the Chinese style, of a woman and boy holding parasol, both figures standing on a low mound. Bor...
EditorialTwo figures in a scene of childbirth, Cypro-Archaic II, ca. 600?480 B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta; hand-made, H. 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm), Terracottas, The two embracing figures are handmade and solid. They are quite crude and without detail.