March 21, 2023 | Editorial Team
 

China, Zun wine vessel in the shape of an owl, 13th-12th century BCE, bronze. Bequest of Alfred F. Pillsbury, 50.46.116
© The Minneapolis Institute of Art

 
 
March 17, 2023 | Editorial Team
 

Le message de l’hirondelle
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
1853, éditeur Kitaya Magobei, 22,4 × 28,4 cm.
© Fundacja Jerzego Leskowicza 

 
 
February 27, 2023 | Alexandre Bernand
 

a, b: Anchor axes, Gê, Eastern Brazil, before XVIIth c.

a. Stone (probably diorite), wood, natural fibers
Dimensions: 56 x 20 x 3 cm
Sotheby’s Paris, 18 June 2014 Lot 1
CJ collection, Athens
© Sotheby’s

b. Stone (probably diorite), wood, stone, natural fibers, shells, gum
Dimensions: 79 x 11,5 x 4 cm
British Museum Am1949,22.178
Oldman Collection n.902 before 1949 and in collection of Sir A. Lamb of Beaufort Park, Bath, formerly 
Published in McEwan (2009:58)
© The Trustees of the British Museum

 
 
February 26, 2023 | Steven G. Alpert
 

Seated man and woman
Culture: Jalisco
Date: 100 BCE–200 CE
Department: Indigenous American Art
Classification: Sculpture
Material and Technique: Ceramic and slip paint
Dimensions: Overall: 16 1/16 x 18 5/8 x 11 5/16 in. (40.8 x 47.3 x 28.734 cm)
Location: Ancient Art of the Americas - A. H. Meadows Galleries, Level 4
Object Number: 1973.58
Credit Line: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene McDermott, the McDermott Foundation, and Mr. and Mrs. Algur H. Meadows and the Meadows Foundation, Incorporated
© Dallas Museum of Art

 
 
February 24, 2023 | Editorial Team
 

Plate
Sasanian period, Reign of Shapur II, 4th century
Iran
Silver and gilt
H x Diam: 5 x 24 cm (1 15/16 x 9 7/16 in)
Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
Freer Gallery of Art
F1934.23

 
 
February 23, 2023 | Editorial Team
 

Seated Ganesha
16th century
India, Odisha
Ivory
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Klejman, 1964
64.102
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 
 
February 22, 2023 | Editorial Team
 

MA11 Man's outer hip wrapper, saput endek. Bali, Indonesia, late 19th or early 20th century. Silk, weft ikat, metallic supplementary weft. 77 in x 42 in. 

 
 
February 20, 2023 | Editorial Team
 

Prayer Carpet
Geography: Türkiye; Gordes
Materials: Wool
Collection: The Textile Museum Collection
Accession Number: 1989.10.116
Credit Line: Bequest of Arthur D. Jenkins

 
 
January 29, 2023 | Steven G. Alpert
 

Ancestral Couple | Ana Deo
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 
 
January 27, 2023 | Editorial Team