EditorialBand, Medium: cotton, wool Technique: dove-tailed tapestry (for all verticals) 1:1 general, 2:1, 2:2 some; slit tapestry (for all diagonals) generally with 2 shots non-horizontal weft between color areas; double-faced; sides both intact, end are cut, B...
EditorialBedcover, Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved roller on plain weave; woven tape with weft fringe, Unlined bed cover make up of three lengths of printed fabric with white fringe sewn to four sides. Pattern composed oftwo vertical elements: the...
EditorialTextile, Medium: wool Technique: slit tapestry: use of nonhorizontal weft, wrapping of single warps for verticals, On brown linen warps, two rows of abstracted small birds in profile. In pink, magenta, purple, ochre and brown on mustart ground., Peru, ...
EditorialFrieze, Maxwell & Co., S.A., Chicago, Illinois, USA, Machine-printed paper, liquid mica, ungrounded, Clusters of blue flowers with green leaves, with upright white verticals separating into compartments. Narrow band of purple floral motifs at bottom of...
EditorialFragment, Medium: silk, metal thread Technique: damass? foundation (8 harness satin plus plain weave). Satin patterned by floats of discontinuous supplementary wefts, Fragment of a pattern of two alternating verticals: architectural motifs, ornamental ...
EditorialBronze helmet of Illyrian type, Classical, early 5th century B.C., Greek, Bronze, H. 8 11/16 in. (22 cm), Bronzes, In the Illyrian helmet, the opening for the face is rectilinear, with a horizontal line at the forehead and two verticals at the inner ed...
EditorialBronze helmet of Illyrian type, Classical, early 5th century B.C., Greek, Bronze, H. 8 11/16 in. (22 cm), Bronzes, In the Illyrian helmet, the opening for the face is rectilinear, with a horizontal line at the forehead and two verticals at the inner ed...
EditorialComposition in Oval with Color Planes 1, 1914. Oil on canvas, 107.6 x 78.8 cm. Made two years after Mondrian moved from Holland to Paris, the geometry of this composition is directly based on sketches of partially demolished buildings, with exposed...
EditorialFolio from a Qur'an Manuscript, probably early 15th century, Attributed to India, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, 8 3/4 x 9 5/16 in. (22.2 x 23.7 cm), Codices, Sura 8 (al-'Anfal): end of 74 through 75; Sura 9(al-Tawba): 1 to the beginning of...
EditorialFolio from a Qur'an Manuscript, late 14th century, Attributed to India, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, 8 3/4 x 9 5/16 in. (22.2 x 23.7 cm), Codices, A unique cursive script was used for Indian Qur'ans between the late fourteenth and mid-six...
EditorialFolio from a Qur'an Manuscript, probably 15th century, Attributed to India, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, 20 9/16 x 12 3/8in. (52.2 x 31.4cm), Codices, A unique cursive script was used for Indian Qur'ans between the late fourteenth and mid...
EditorialBronze helmet of Illyrian type, Classical, early 5th century B.C., Greek, Bronze, H. 8 11/16 in. (22 cm), Bronzes, In the Illyrian helmet, the opening for the face is rectilinear, with a horizontal line at the forehead and two verticals at the inner ed...