Bowls with Repeating Inscription, "Blessing" – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/449133
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin vol. 32, section II (1937). p. 19, ill. fig.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin vol. 32, section II (1937). p. 19, ill. fig.
Beneath a curiously distended double arch of the nave of a church illuminated with bottle glass windows, the Virgin demurely extends her hand, on which a bearded Joseph places a ring rendered in raised, gilded pastiglia—the same technique used for the collar of the officiating priest and for the haloes decorated with pseudo-Kufic lettering
Art News 35 (May 1, 1937), p. 156, ill. p. 42. Charles Sterling.
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 3, p. 77.
BottleThis bottle clearly illustrates the transitional phase of development between Late Antique and early Islamic period artifacts. Of all the crafts, glassmaking was perhaps the most conservative in terms of both artistic continuity over time and the transfer of skills and ideas from one generation to another
London, p. 65, pl. 32i (related). Jenkins-Madina, Marilyn.
Margaret was the eldest child and favorite daughter of Sir Thomas More. She married William Roper (50.69.1) in 1521. She was born about October 1505, and the age assigned to her in the artist’s inscription indicates that this miniature was painted in 1535–36, shortly after her father’s execution
London, 1926, p. 225. Paul Ganz.
The Sons of Hephaistos: Aspects of the Archaic Greek bronze Industry. p. 154, Roma
Classification: Bronzes Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1960 Object Number: 60.11.2a, b
Two Zoomorphic Bottles (69.153 and 1999.145)Like the blue bottle decorated with applied threads of blue glass (X.21.210), the playful utilitarian objects 69.153 and 1999
Catalogue by Donald B. Harden and others. Milan, 1987.
1889 Object Number: 89.4.1473 Mary Elizabeth Adams Brown ; Felice Beato Sally B.