Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Roundel with two parrots perched symmetrically on a plant
View through Harvard Museums
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of The Hagop Kevorkian Foundation in memory of Hagop Kevorkian
Related Results
Roundel with Candelabra Plant and Animals
Roundel with Candelabra Plant and Animals
A bright polychrome tapestry roundel is applied to a linen tabby with self-bands. The roundel has a double border of a scale design (purple and black) and a stylized acanthus scrol...
Roundel: Animals Around a Hunter
Roundel: Animals Around a Hunter
Roundel containing purple animals running around an inner roundel. Innermost roundel contains a human figure, possibly a hunter holding a shield. This human figure is surrounded by...
Roundel with Hunters and Plants
Roundel with Hunters and Plants
Tapestry woven roundel on undyed warps. Many wefts missing. Border of blue, green, pink and white rinceaux with small flower buds on a purple background. Purple border has band of ...
Waistcoat panels embroidered in coloured silks in chain stitch on cream silk satin, design depicting gardeners pushing wheelbarrows filled with turnips and other gardening implements (barrels, ladders, watering cans, rakes), a bird perched on a post. Smal
Waistcoat panels embroidered in coloured silks in chain stitch on cream silk satin, design depicting gardeners pushing wheelbarrows filled with turnips and other gardening implements (barrels, ladders, watering cans, rakes), a bird perched on a post. Smal
Waistcoat panels embroidered in coloured silks in chain stitch on cream silk satin, design depicting gardeners pushing wheelbarrows filled with turnips and other gardening implemen...
Scarf 'Les Perroquets' (the parrots)
Scarf 'Les Perroquets' (the parrots)
Silk scarf titled 'Les Perroquets' (The parrots) with a design of parrots. Parrots of various sizes and colours are depicted on a mustard coloured background. In the centre field f...
Textile Fragment: Animals and Figures Around Vegetation
Textile Fragment: Animals and Figures Around Vegetation
A portion of a red tapestry woven square (tabula). The design is characterized by mirror symmetry. Animals and birds flank a large abstract, jeweled candelabra plant emerging from ...
Griffin Protome from a Cauldron
Griffin Protome from a Cauldron
Inspired by Near Eastern vessels and monster imagery, Greek metal smiths of the seventh century BC produced numerous cauldrons of hammered metal that were adorned with the heads an...
Circular Mirror with Articulated Lip and Decoration of Flying Birds and Blossoming Plants
Circular Mirror with Articulated Lip and Decoration of Flying Birds and Blossoming Plants
A well-articulated, relief lip encircles the periphery of this circular mirror; on the mirror's decorated back, a single bowstring line rises in relief about one centimeter in from...