Double gourd-shaped Bottles, of fine polychromatic ware of old Kaga porcelain
Old Kaga porcelain. Polychromatic bottles. Japan.
Category: Costume
Hanaike. Japanese flower vases. Owari, Japan.
The figure is that of Onono Komachi, who lived in the ninth century.
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books about japan 19th,20th c.
Coloured terracotta figures. Artistic specimen of Japan.
Specimen of Japan. Group of figures of a traveller with a child. Coloured terracotta.
Stirling Castle, Scotland.
The View was taken in the Year 1778. The Print shews the south-west aspect of the Castle.
Mesopotamia. The Sumerian Chale. Sumer & Accad.
Restitution of the Sumerian garment in real life, based on a seated statue of Gudea, known as the “Architect with a ruler”.
Attitudes by Emma, Lady Hamilton (1765-1815)
Emma, Lady Hamilton (1765-1815) was a Europe-wide celebrated beauty, artist and socialite of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century.
Jericho, the lowest city in the world.
Its location in the Jordan Rift Valley makes it the lowest city in the world, about ten kilometres north of the Dead Sea.
Djouni, once the Residence of Lady Hester Stanhope.
Lady Hester Stanhope was an English aristocrat, antiquarian, and one of the most famous travellers of her age.
Italy. Rural costumes. The farmers of the Terra di Lavoro. The Pifferari.
The figures represent inhabitants of Monte Cassino, the old Casinum, in the Terra di Lavoro, as they walk through the streets of Rome as models and through the capitals of the mainland as musicians.