January 26, 2024 | Editorial Team
 

Left: Dish with a blue saz leaf
Turkey, Iznik, ca. 1580
Ceramic with painted underglaze
Abu Dhabi, Louvre Abu Dhabi, LAD 2012.045
Photo: © Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi / Photo: Ismail Noor/Seeing Things

Right: Vanity case with decoration inspired by Iznik ceramics
Cartier Paris, 1927
Gold, platinum, enamel, sapphires, emeralds, topazes, coral, moonstones, diamonds
Cartier Collection, VC 41 A 27
Nils Herrmann, Cartier Collection
Photo: © Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi / Photo: Ismail Noor/Seeing Things

 
 
January 24, 2024 | Editorial Team
 

A floral fantasy of animals and birds (Waq-waq), early 1600s. Mughal India. Gum tempera and gold on paper; page: 37.6 x 26.6 cm (14 13/16 x 10 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection 2013.319

 
 
December 30, 2023 | Steven G. Alpert
 

Wooden Figure of the Mythical 'Kalipau' Creature | Henta-koi
© Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford

 
 
December 28, 2023 | Editorial Team
 

Left: Ceremonial Bowl
© Borneo Cultures Museum
Top: Olmec Mask
© Dallas Museum of Art
Bottom: Female Dugong Charm Figure | Dangal
© The Trustees of the British Museum
Right: Uli Figure
© Linden-Museum Stuttgart

 
 
December 27, 2023 | Editorial Team
 

Unknown painter (French School), Enjoying Coffee, Turkey, first half of the 18th century, Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation's Orientalist Painting Collection, Pera Museum, Istanbul, photo © Pera Museum, Istanbul

 
 
December 26, 2023 | Editorial Team
 

Jarasandha besieges Mathura
Folio 43 from a Bhagavata Purana series (BhP 10.50), India, Bundelkhand, Datia, ca. 1635–50, gift of Horst Metzger, Museum Rietberg, Zurich (RVI 1923)

 
 
December 22, 2023 | Editorial Team
 

Tenaktak Canoes
Volume 10. The Kwakiutl
Written, illustrated, and published by Edward S. Curtis; edited by Frederick Webb Hodge; foreword by Theodore Roosevelt; field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan; Original photogravures produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son from 1914.
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University Libraries

 
 
December 21, 2023 | Editorial Team
 

Paul Gauguin. Pobre Pescador (Poor Fisherman). 1896. Oil on canvas. 75 x 65 cm Gift of Henrik Spitzman-Jordan, Ricardo Jafet and João di Pietro. Collection of Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand. Image courtesy of Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand; photo by Eduardo Ortega

 
 
November 29, 2023 | Steven G. Alpert
 

Kenyah Ceremonial Jacket
© Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen | The Netherlands

 
 
November 28, 2023 | Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin
 

Feathered Image | Ki’i Hulu Manu
Believed to represent Kuka’ilimoku
Wicker, feathers, mother-of-pearl, dog teeth, Hawaii,
h. 46.5 cm, w. 16 cm, d. 7.5 cm (neck), Inv. Oz 254
Cook-Forster Collection
© Georg-August University of Göttingen