BahÃa artist(s) – Double-chambered bottle – Bahia – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/316001
head crests; long streamers emerge from their open, fanged mouths; their bodies have
head crests; long streamers emerge from their open, fanged mouths; their bodies have
Fred H. Andrews O.B.E. (until d. 1957; by descent to Andrews family); by descent in the Fred H. Andrews O.B.E. family (until 2017; sale, Christie’s, London, Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art: Including Export Art, May 15, 2007, lot 171, as „An extremely rare and important Tang dynasty painting on silk,“ through Eskenaz, Ltd
It consists of two parts that may or may not have matched each other originally.
Excavated by the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art at Lisht, 1913-1914. Acquired by the Museum in the division of finds, 1914.Excavated by the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
One or more deities, who have not been preserved, would have stood in front of and
Depicting warriors, musicians, hunters, and dancers, the figures were mold-made and have
How is Black dandyism integral to Black identity and the history of fashion?
Others, like Equiano, might not have been dressed in this way, but through their
A second diagonal cross divides the plane of the lower square, which would have remained
[Before 1963, with Ayoub Rabenou]; from 1963, on loan by The Guennol Collection (Alastair Bradley Martin’s collection) to the Museum (L.63.10.2); until 1994, Alastair Bradley Martin’s family; acquired by the Museum in 1994, purchased from The Merrin Gallery, New York
The story seems to have been popular for centuries—both in Sasanian times and under
Throughout the greater part of his career Greuze made what are referred to as either study heads or expressive heads, in French called têtes d’expression. He showed paintings of the kind at every biannual Salon in which he participated, that is, from 1755 through 1765 and in 1769
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 639 Greuze’s contemporaries would have
The Richard and Gloria Manney John Henry Belter Rococo Revival Parlor presents a sumptuous mid-nineteenth-century parlor characteristic of affluent homes in the United States. It features furniture by one of the most innovative and virtuosic American cabinetmakers of the period in a room whose architectural elements are from the double parlor of a Classical Revival style villa built around 1850 in Astoria, Queens, for a prosperous businessman named Horace Whittemore (1813–1871).
elaborately carved furniture represents the height of fashionability and would have
Carnarvon Collection until 1926. Purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art from Almina, Countess of Carnarvon, 1926. Lord Carnarvon had purchased the ram (26.7.1019) at the Dattari Collection sale, Paris, June 1912, and purchased the masks (26
Roman Period A.D. 2nd century Not on view These three pieces are said to have