EditorialTerracotta vase in the form of a sleeping African (known as Ethiopian) boy, Hellenistic, ca. 3rd?2nd century B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta, H. 8 3/16 in. (20.8 cm), Vases, The sleeping boy's nakedness and exhausted state suggest that he is a slave or serva...
EditorialSmart Balance with differing amounts of vegetable oils at consumer advocate Edgar Dworsky’s home in Somerville, Mass., Nov. 7, 2022. (Simon Simard/The New York Times)
EditorialLaure de Noves or Laure de Sade, wife of Count Hugues de Sade, and muse of Francesco Petrarch, 1308-1348. She wears a long blue surtout with laced bodice and slashed sleeves, crakows or poulaines, and small cap with her long hair tied behind. After a p...
EditorialTepary beans from Ramona Farms and oils and vinegars from Seka Hills, foods featured at Tocabe Indigenous Marketplace, in Denver, Colo., May 28, 2021. (Rachel Woolf/The New York Times)
EditorialMagenta class, Jug in the shape of a woman's head, clay, pressed into the mold, hand modeled, painted (ceramic), fired (ceramic), clay, Total: Height: 10 cm; Width: 5.9 cm, ceramic, woman, head, face, Late Classicism (Greek Antiquity), Early Hellenisti...
EditorialCharon Painter, Lekythos (farewell at the grave), clay, quickly turned, painted (ceramic), alternately fired, cold painting, clay, Total: Height: 30 cm, ceramic, High Classical (Greek antiquity), In Greek antiquity, all vessels for ointment and perfume...
EditorialUnguentarium, Glass, mouth-blown, hand-modeled, glass, Total: Height: 24.4 cm; Diameter: 6.4 cm; Mouth diameter: 5.8 cm, Roman Antiquity, Middle Imperial Period, From the low, bulbous container with a deepened center of the bottom, a slender, upwardly ...
EditorialSpindle-Shaped Unguentarium, Roman, An unguentarium (plural unguentaria) was a small bottle used to store balms or scented oils (unguents)., Glass, Classical Roman, Antiquities, Ancient Civilisations, Bottle, Antiquities, Europe.