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Book Review
Chinese Ivory Carvings: The Sir Victor Sassoon Collection. By Rose Kerr, Phillip Allen and Shi Ching-fei
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 869-870
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Reviewer:
Pearce, Nick (Pearce, Nick)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Sassoon, Victor / Lucas, S. E.
dates:
2000–1500 BC / 1500-1000 BC / 1000–500 BC / 0499-0400 BC / 0399-0300 BC / 0299-0200 BC / 0199-0100 BC / 0099-0001 BC / 0001-0099 / 0100-0199 / 0200-0299 / 0300-0399 / 0400-0499 / 0500-0599 / 0600-0699 / 0700-0799 / 0800-0899 / 0900-0999 / 1000-1099 / 1100-1199 / 1200-1299 / 1300-1399 / 1400-1499 / 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 / 1800-1899
media:
Ivories
places:
China / Guangdong / Guangzhou / Shanghai / Great Britain
subjects:
Collecting / Collections / Sassoon Collection / Gifts / Collectors / Merchants / Vessels / Chinese export / Chinese sculpture / Carvings
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
2. Brush pot carved with a continuous landscape design. Qing dynasty, 18th century. Ivory, height 19.5 cm. (Sir Victor Sassoon Collection).
Article
Greek and Roman Sculpture in the Holy Land
01/1981 | 934 | 123
Pages: 7-8+10-19
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Author:
Anderson, Kristin (Anderson, Kristin)
Author:
Vermeule, Cornelius C. (Vermeule, Cornelius C.; III, Cornelius C. Vermeule,; Vermeule, Cornelius)
Subjects
dates:
0100-0199
dates:
0200-0299
places:
Israel / Rome (historical region) / Greece
subjects:
Greek (ancient) sculpture / Roman (ancient) sculpture
subjects:
Greco-Roman / Hellenistic
subjects:
Sarcophagi
subjects:
Early Christian / Late Antique / Jewish
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
18. Another View of Fig.17. [Hermes. Marble, Height with Plinth 85 cm. From Askalon. (Palestine Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem)]
Non-western art unattributed:
21. Hermarchos. Marble, Height 58 cm. From Samaria-Sebaste. (Palestine Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem).
Non-western art unattributed:
38. Sarcophagus with the Rape of Persephone. Marble, Height 67 cm, Length 222 cm. From near Askalon. (Museum in the Civic Centre, Ashkelon-Afridar).
Western art unattributed:
13. Dionysus (Alexander the Great) from Scythopolis. Marble, Height 42 cm. (Palestine Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem).
Western art unattributed:
14. Another View of Fig.13. [Dionysus (Alexander the Great) from Scythopolis. Marble, Height 42 cm. (Palestine Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem).]
Western art unattributed:
15. Asklepios. Marble, Height 73 cm. (Caesarea Maritima).
Western art unattributed:
16. Zeus or the Demos. Marble, Over-Lifesize. (Caesarea Maritima).
Western art unattributed:
17. Hermes. Marble, Height with Plinth 85 cm. From Askalon. (Palestine Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem).
Western art unattributed:
19. Pan. Marble, Height 43 cm, Diameter of Medallion 42 cm. From Askalon. (Palestine Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem).
Western art unattributed:
20. Another View of Fig.19. [Pan. Marble, Height 43 cm, Diameter of Medallion 42 cm. From Askalon. (Palestine Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem)].
Western art unattributed:
22. Hadrian. Porphyry. Over-Lifesize. (Caesarea Maritima).
Western art unattributed:
23. Late Hadrianic Woman. Marble, Height 32 cm. From the Jordan valley. (Palestine Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem).
Western art unattributed:
24. Another View of Fig.23. [Late Hadrianic Woman. Marble, Height 32 cm. From the Jordan valley. (Palestine Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem)].
Western art unattributed:
25. Woman. c. 245 A. D. Marble, Height 75 cm. From Askalon. (Palestine Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem).
Western art unattributed:
26. Another View of Fig.25. [Woman. c. 245 A. D. Marble, Height 75 cm. From Askalon. (Palestine Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem)].
Western art unattributed:
27. Altar in the Name of Legio XII Fulminata. Limestone. Height 146 cm, Width 62 cm. (Palestine Archaeological Museum).
Western art unattributed:
28. Altar from Legio (Maximianopolis). Marble, Height 105 cm. (Palestine Archaeological Museum).
Western art unattributed:
29. Another View of Fig.28. [Altar from Legio (Maximianopolis). Marble, Height 105 cm. (Palestine Archaeological Museum)].
Western art unattributed:
30. Another View of Fig.27. [Altar in the Name of Legio XII Fulminata. Limestone. Height 146 cm, Width 62 cm. (Palestine Archaeological Museum).
Western art unattributed:
31. Victoria on Orb with Atlas. Marble, Height of Atlas on Base 136 cm. (Severan Bouleuterion, Askalon).
Western art unattributed:
32. Victoria, Similar to Fig.31. Marble, Height 224 cm.
Western art unattributed:
33. Fragments of a Victoria Similar to Fig.31. Marble, Height 70 cm.
Western art unattributed:
34. Good Shepherd. Marble, Height 63 cm. From Gaza. (Palestine Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem).
Western art unattributed:
35. Demeter. Marble, Height 117 cm. From Sameria-Sebaste. (Palestine Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem).
Western art unattributed:
36. Detail from Fig.35. [Demeter. Marble, Height 117 cm. From Sameria-Sebaste. (Palestine Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem)
Western art unattributed:
37. Sarcophagus with Greeks, Trojans and an Amazon. Marble, Dimensions Similar to Fig.38. Attic, from near Askalon. (Museum in the Civic Centre, Ashkelon-Afridar).
Western art unattributed:
Fig. A. Map of the Holy Land in Antiquity.
Short Notice
Recent Museum Acquisition: Buddhist Stele (Krannert Art Museum)
12/1966 | 765 | 108
Pages: 630-631+633
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Author:
Christison, Muriel B. (Christison, Muriel B.)
Subjects
dates:
1960-1969
dates:
0100-0199
museums and institutions:
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, Urbana Champaign, United States
places:
United States / India
places:
Urbana-Champaign
subjects:
Art museums / Acquisitions
subjects:
Indian sculpture / Gandhara / Buddhist
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
47. Stele. Buddhist (Gandhāra), Second Century A. D. Marble Schist Relief; Height, 79 cm. (Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign). Gift of Mrs Ellnora D. Krannert, 1965.
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Recent Museum Acquisitions: Blue Glass Facet-Cut Ewer (Corning Museum of Glass, New York)
03/1966 | 756 | 108
Pages: 143+145
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Subjects
dates:
1960-1969
dates:
0100-0199 / 0200-0299
museums and institutions:
Corning Museum of Glass, New York, United States
places:
United States / New York / Iran
subjects:
Art museums / Acquisitions / Glassware / Ewers
subjects:
Sassanian / Parthian
subjects:
Persian
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
51. Facet-Cut Ewer. Late Parthian or Early Sassanian Origin. Second-Third Century A. D. Height, 14.3 cm. (Corning Museum of Glass, New York.)
Article
A Glass Bowl with the 'Judgment of Paris'
06/1953 | 603 | 95
Pages: 180-185+187
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Author:
Richter, Gisela M. A. (Richter, Gisela M. A.; Richter, Gisela Marie Augusta; Richter, G. M. A.; Richter, Gisela M.; Richter, Gisela)
Author:
Smith, Ray Winfield (Smith, Ray Winfield)
Subjects
dates:
0100-0199 / 0200-0299
media:
Glass paintings / Bowls
places:
Rome (historical region)
places:
Pompeii
places:
Antioch (Turkey)
sources:
Homer
subjects:
Paris (Greek hero) / Glassware
subjects:
Roman (ancient) / Greek iconography
subjects:
Late Antique
subjects:
Roman (ancient) painting / Visual sources
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
1. The Judgment of Paris. Roman Imperial Period, Late Second or Carly Third Century A. D. Glass Bowl, with Slight Yellowish Tinge at Edges. Numerous Pinpoint Bubbles. Diameter, 20.5 cm, Depth, 3.1 cm. (Mr Ray W. Smith.) Note: The Light Blue Tones on the Figures and Elsewhere Represent Areas Where Paint is Missing, and Where Background Shows Through.
Western art unattributed:
10. The Judgment of Paris. Detail from Relief. (National Museum of the Terme, Rome.)
Western art unattributed:
2. Paris, Hermes, and Pothos. Detail from the Painting on the Glass Bowl Shown in Fig.1. [The Judgment of Paris. (Mr Ray W. Smith.)]
Western art unattributed:
3. Aphrodite and Hera. Detail from the Painting on the Glass Bowl Shown in Fig.1. [The Judgment of Paris. (Mr Ray W. Smith.)]
Western art unattributed:
4. Paris's Flock. Detail from the Painting on the Glass Bowl Shown in Fig.1. [The Judgment of Paris. (Mr Ray W. Smith.)]
Western art unattributed:
5. The Judgment of Paris. Wall-Painting from Pompeii. From Helbig: Wandgemälde Campaniens, Pl. XVI.
Western art unattributed:
6. Artemis and Aktaion. Wall-Painting from Pompeii. From Helbig: Wandgemälde Campaniens, Pl. VIII.
Western art unattributed:
7. Mosaic from Hadrian's Villa. (Vatican, Rome.)
Western art unattributed:
8. The Judgment of Paris. Wall-Painting from Pompeii. From Hermann-Helbig: Denkmäler der Malerei des Altertums, p.23, Fig.5.
Western art unattributed:
9. The Judgment of Paris. Mosaic from Antioch. (Louvre.)
Short Notice
Poet or General? An Iconographical Puzzle
07/1950 | 568 | 92
Pages: 194+196-197
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Author:
Poulsen, Vagn (Poulsen, Vagn)
Subjects
dates:
0100-0199
places:
Greece / Rome (historical region)
subjects:
Greek iconography / Roman iconography / Roman (ancient) sculpture / Busts
subjects:
Miltiades
subjects:
Portraits / Identification
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
10. Head of a Statue Representing a Greek Poet. Marble. (Louvre, Paris.)
Western art unattributed:
11. Head from Ephesus. Variant of the Same Type as Fig. 10. Marble. (Kunsthist. Museum, Vienna.)
Western art unattributed:
12. Portrait Herm Found in 1901 near S. Saba on the Aventine. Variant of the Same Type as Fig. 10. Marble. (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Mass.)
Western art unattributed:
13. Portrait Herm Inscribed 'Miltiades' Found in the Sixteenth Century on the Caelius. Second Century A. D. (Museo Nazionale, Ravenna.)
Western art unattributed:
14. Profile View of Fig. 11. Head from Ephesus
Western art unattributed:
15. Profile View of Fig. 12. Portrait Herm.
Article
Monsieur Cumont on Roman Funerary Art
06/1945 | 507 | 86
Pages: 148+151-152
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Author:
Toynbee, J. M. C. (Toynbee, J. M. C.; Toynbee, Jocelyn; Toynbee, Jocelyn M. C.)
Subjects
art literature:
Cumont, Franz
dates:
0100-0199 / 0200-0299
places:
Rome (historical region)
subjects:
Philosophy of religion / Sarcophagi / Roman (ancient) / Sculpture / Iconography
subjects:
Funerary art / Classical mythology
Article
The Haughton Collection of Gandhara Sculpture
03/1945 | 504 | 86
Pages: 66-71+73
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Author:
Buchthal, Hugo (Buchthal, Hugo; Buchthal, H.)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Haughton, H. L.
dates:
0100-0199 / 0200-0299 / 0300-0399
places:
India / Italy / Greece / Rome
subjects:
Indian / Sculpture / Gandhara / Greek (ancient) / Roman (ancient) / Influence / Collections, Private
subjects:
Buddhas / Iconography / Hellenistic
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. A-Venus. Gold, Height, 5 cm. (Haughton Collection). The Haughton Collection of Gandhara Sculpture
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. C-Kanishka Casket. Detail. Bronze. (Peshavar Museum). The Haughton Collection of Gandhara Sculpture
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. F-Presentation of the Bride. Stone Relief from Gandhara. (British Museum). The Haughton Collection of Gandhara Sculpture
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. A-Unidentified Scene. Stone Relief. Height, 33 cm. The Haughton Collection of Gandhara Sculpture
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. B-Tyche of Kapilavastu (?). Fragment of Stone Relief. Height, 19 cm.. The Haughton Collection of Gandhara Sculpture
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. C-Standing Buddha. Bronze. Height. 27 cm. The Haughton Collection of Gandhara Sculpture
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate III. A-Standing Buddha. Stone Sculpture. Height, 64 cm. The Haughton Collection of Gandhara Sculpture
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate III. B-Head of a Buddhist Monk. Green Schist. Height 15 cm. The Haughton Collection of Gandhara Sculpture
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate III. C-Death of the Buddha. Stone Relief. Height, 20 cm. The Haughton Collection of Gandhara Sculpture
Western art unattributed:
Plate I. B-Asklepios. Serpentine. Height, 4 cm. (Haughton Collection). The Haughton Collection of Gandhara Sculpture
Western art unattributed:
Plate I. D-Minerva, Jupiter and Juno. Detail of the Silver Hoop from the Marengo Treasure. Roman, Second Century A. D. (Museo di Antichita, Turin). The Haughton Collection of Gandhara Sculpture
Western art unattributed:
Plate I. E-Proserpine and Ceres. Further Detail of Silver Hoop, See D. The Haughton Collection of Gandhara Sculpture
Article
The Bimaran Casket
05/1943 | 482 | 82
Pages: 116-120+123
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Author:
Le May, Reginald (Le May, Reginald; M., R. le; May, Reginald Le)
Subjects
dates:
0001-0099 / 0100-0199
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
India
subjects:
Sculpture / Metalwork / Gandhara / Indian / Hellenistic / Influence / Buddhas / Buddhist
subjects:
Reliquaries / Caskets
works:
Bimaran casket (British Museum, London)
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. A-Tope (Stupa) No. 2, Bimaran. The Bimaran Casket
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. B-Relic-Casket. Gold. First Half of the First Century. Ghandara School. (British Museum). The Bimaran Casket
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. C-Steatite Vase Which Contained the Gold Casket. Found in the Stupa at Bimaran. (British Museum). The Bimaran Casket
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. D-Lotus on the Base of the Casket. The Bimaran Casket
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. E-Copper Coin of Azes II (1st Century A. D.). Found near the Steatite Vase. (British Museum). The Bimaran Casket
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. A-Brahma. The Bimaran Casket
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. B-The Buddha Preaching. The Bimaran Casket
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. C-The Donor of the Casket (?). The Bimaran Casket
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. D-Indra. The Bimaran Casket
Article
Two Chinese Mirrors
01/1939 | 430 | 74
Pages: 22-24+26-28
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Author:
Yetts, W. Perceval (Yetts, W. Perceval; Yetts, Walter Perceval; Yetts, W. Percival; Y., W. P.; Yetts, Perceval; Y., P.; Yetts, W. P.)
Subjects
dates:
0199-0100 BC / 0100-0199 / 0001-0099
places:
China / Wu-yüeh (former Chinese state)
subjects:
Chinese sculpture / Bronzes / Mirrors / Chinese
subjects:
Metalwork / Inscriptions / Patronage / Royalty
subjects:
Fuchai, d. 473 B.C.
subjects:
Goujian, d. 465 B.C.
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. Chinese Mirror. Probably Second Century B. C. Bronze. Diam., 17.5 cm. (Sedgwick Collection, London). Two Chinese Mirrors
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. Chinese Mirror. First or Second Century A. D. Bronze. Diameter, 21 cm. (Sedgwick Collection, London). Two Chinese Mirrors
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