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Urn with lid. Kangxi, Qing Dynasty
Urn with lid. Kangxi, Qing Dynasty
The URNA with a lid. Low-neck oviposition Cupy lid with round bud. Main motif consisting of a landscape with two bird Fenix.
Purchased by Johanna Kempe on 22 March 1890 at art de...
Landscape with Poultry and Birds of Prey
Landscape with Poultry and Birds of Prey
Melchior de Hondecoeter was a painter who specialised in depicting birds of all types. He began his training with his father Gijsbert, who also painted animals, as did his grandfat...
Mosaic Pavement with Birds, from Feleet Village Building (Panel B)
Mosaic Pavement with Birds, from Feleet Village Building (Panel B)
This polychrome mosaic floor pavement depicts twelve birds on a plain, white background framed by a decorative, guilloche border in shades of green, yellow, and red. In the center ...
Pen Box with Birds, Butterflies, and Flowers
Pen Box with Birds, Butterflies, and Flowers
Cover and sliding compartment with rounded ends. The top is decorated in horizontal format with central cartouche with concentric gold frames containing a songbird. An inscription ...
Romantic Verses, folio from an album made for Shah Jahan
Romantic Verses, folio from an album made for Shah Jahan
The five lines of Persian poetry, likely copied in the 16th century, are extracted from a ghazal (a short lyric love poem) by Jalal Azad, a 14th-century Persian poet and a contempo...
Lotuses and Birds
Lotuses and Birds
Painted with ink and colored pigments on paper, this magnificent eight-panel folding screen boasts a continuous scene of a lotus pond with tall, luxuriant stalks of lotus flowers, ...
Jacket with bodice, embroidered with red crewel-work on twill ground; outlines in stem stitch, filling in long and short and coral stitches and French knots. Full sleeves, not full length, plain edge at the wrist. The embroidery consists of individual spr
Jacket with bodice, embroidered with red crewel-work on twill ground; outlines in stem stitch, filling in long and short and coral stitches and French knots. Full sleeves, not full length, plain edge at the wrist. The embroidery consists of individual spr
Jacket with bodice, embroidered with red crewel-work on twill ground; outlines in stem stitch, filling in long and short and coral stitches and French knots. Full sleeves, not full...
Cloth for men
Cloth for men
A men's cloth (hinggi), consisting of two weaves sewn together. On the cloth are skull trees and horses. The central band shows the 'patola ratu' motif, a motif inspired by the pat...