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Living room, two chairs by Henry Van de Velde, designer and architect of the Rijksmuseum Kroeller- Mueller, Otterloo. St. Hubertus Lodge, house of the Kroeller-Mueller family, Dutch industrialists and founders of the Rijksmuseum Kroeller-Mueller. 1916
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Living room, two chairs by Henry Van de Velde, designer and architect o...

Coupe de vendange - Harvest cup, offered to Princess Mathilde,cousin of Napoleon III. ca.1844 Silver,partly gilded,enamel,agate,35 x 27 x 15 cm Diamonds of the Crown C.95.012
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Coupe de vendange - Harvest cup, offered to Princess Mathilde,cousi...

Tapestry "The Hunts of Maximilian",one of twelve. Month of November,sign of the Sagittarius,11th piece of the Tapestry,wool,silk,gold and silver thread,seven kettfaeden per centimeter, 440 x 750 cm,OA 7322 Brussels around 1528-1533 After Bernaert van Orley. Hunting dinner.
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Tapestry "The Hunts of Maximilian",one of twelve. Month of November,sign...

Cavalier and lady in a garden.Flemish,around 1630
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Cavalier and lady in a garden.Flemish,around 1630

Gold-glass medallion showing Heracles and a husband and wife, and a small image of Herakles, 4th. The man wears a tunic with a red stripe and she wears a gemstone nacklace with pendant pearls. The inscription to "Orfitus and Constantia" could point to Memmius Vitruvius Orfitus, a pagan aristocrat and prefect of Rome in the 4th century. Herakles wears the skin of the Nemean lion and carries his club and the apples of the Hesperides, which were his wedding present to Jupiter and Juno, suggesting that the medallion was a wedding gift. M&ME, 1863,7-27,3
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Gold-glass medallion showing Heracles and a husband and wife, and a small image...

Gold disc brooch,Merovingian, probaly from Germany, late 6th. The brooch is made in cloisonnee technique with garnets and glass, adopted from Eastern mediterranean jewellers by the Franks, Goths, Lombards and other "barbarians". The wearing of single disc brooches developed in the 6th and 7th centuries as costume fashions changed under Byzantine influence. M&ME, 1894,4-21,2
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Gold disc brooch,Merovingian, probaly from Germany, late 6th. The brooch is made...

Gold medallion with the Adoration of the Magi, obverse side of 30-01-08/6. Early Byzantine,around 600. Two gold discs mounted back to back. The three Magi approach the seated Virgin who holds the Christchild in her lap. The Magis'clothing shows their Persian origin: leggings, tunics and Phrygian caps. M&ME 1983,7-4,1
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Gold medallion with the Adoration of the Magi, obverse side of 30-01-08/6. Early...

Lovers' brooch, set alternatively with cabochon rubies and sapphires. The pin is set with a sapphire. Between the gems punched crosses and lettrs in Lombardic script. Inscription on the reverse side says "io sui ici en liu dami amo" indicating that the brooch ws an expensive love token. M&ME, AF.2683
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Lovers' brooch, set alternatively with cabochon rubies and sapphires. The pin is...

Glass drinking-horn, Lombardic, 6th-7th. The colouring and decoration show the use of sophisticated techniques which were kept up by Italian glassblowers from the late Roman period. The horn would have been used to pass around strong drink at feasts and drinking sessions. Found in a grave at Sutri,Viterbo,Italy. M&ME, 1887,1-8,2
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Glass drinking-horn, Lombardic, 6th-7th. The colouring and decoration show the u...

The Magdeburg panel, Ottonian, around 965 CE. Ivory panel with a scene from the gospel of Saint Luke: Christ and a group of disciples meet a bier being carried out of the city gate. The background is pierced with equal-armed crosses. The panel would have been backed with gold or copper and is one of sixteen depicting scenes from the Life of Christ, originally in the cathedral at Magdeburg, Germany. The mounting was destroyed around the middle of the 11th, when plaques from the series were incorporated into the book cover of a codex. The panel was made in Milan. M&ME, 1856,6-23,25
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The Magdeburg panel, Ottonian, around 965 CE. Ivory panel with a scene from the...

0310000133 Dish with portrait of a woman, c1490-c1525. Maiolica dish painted with a woman in profile, and a scroll inscribed 'PÊDORMIRENONSAQUISTA', ('nothing is gained by sleeping'). When applied to maiolica, the term 'belle donne', (Italian for 'beautiful women'), usually refers to dishes or plates bearing female heads and a scroll inscribed with a name or motto. The female image is idealised to such a degree that it is unlikely to be an accurate likeness of a particular woman. However, the names are thought to refer to contemporary women, often local worthies or beauties. Those pieces with a moralizing inscription are not belle donne wares in the true sense, but are part of the artistic tradition of portraying female images with a moralizing statement, often one that appears to be specifically addressed to a female audience. This example was made in Deruta, Umbria, Italy. M&ME, 1853,2-21,5
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0310000133 Dish with portrait of a woman, c1490-c1525. Maiolica dish painted wi...

0310000124 Portrait dish, (Dutch?), c1583. Portrait of a woman in Elizabethan dress with Venetian-style border decoration of fruit and flowers. In the sixteenth century, immigrant Italian potters spread the styles and techniques of painted maiolica into the Southern Netherlands; maiolica is a ceramic technique using tin-glaze which produces a surface similar to porcelain and can be easily painted. Antwerp and Haarlem also produced pottery with sophisticated decoration inspired by Italian prototypes with the town of Delft later emerging as the principal pottery centre. M&ME, 1885,5-8,40
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0310000124 Portrait dish, (Dutch?), c1583. Portrait of a woman in Elizabethan d...