Canvases, carats & curiosities

    Imagine how it feels to enter a room filled with wondrous dis...

Beginning in the 4th Dynasty, attempts were made to stiffen and mold the...

Enamel is not paint. It is actually a thin coat of glass applied to a me...

The sophisticated use of oyster veneer was a striking innovation that Wi...

Lorestan (Luristan) bronze refers to a set of Early Iron Age bronze arti...

Glass was one of the most popular and useful materials in nearly every a...

Thomas Chippendale was the first cabinetmaker to boast such a strong fol...

François Boucher was chosen as Director of the royal tapestry workshops ...

The Fifteenth was the last American field army to see service in Europe ...

Josiah Wedgwood's jasper was the triumphant outcome of more than 5,000 e...

The architects of Tiffany & Co.'s New York boutique on 5th Avenue wa...

Fire screens and chenets were a staple of any well-appointed home, servi...

There is commonly a difference between the dates of terrestrial and cele...

Before the 16th century, it would have been unheard of to have a purely ...

The first recorded use of the pedestal was as a decorative support for c...