Antique Law

The upper scene illustrates 1 Maccabees chapter 2, verse 49, where the dying priest Mattathias exhorts his sons to be zealous for the Law and names Judas Maccabeus their captain. The...

Hezekiah sits with an open book of the Law among his counsellors and soldiers while in the background men pull down statues from their pedestals.

(Long Live the Nation, The Law...). The Historical Erasure: Crucially, the final line of the official slogan—which originally read "Le Roi" (The King)—has been aggressively scraped a...

James, who stood at 5 ft 1 & a half inches tall, was a keen fox-hunter, and was often seen out with the York and Ainsty. He was the brother-in-law to Fred Barrett, each of the jo...

The manufacture was subsequently developed in association with Hans Riessner, a painter, his brother Karl Riessner, and Joseph Kessel, who were both employees and sons-in-law of Alfr...

In the Lycée Condorcet Vuillard met Ker Xavier Roussel (also a future painter and Vuillard's future brother in law), Maurice Denis, musician Pierre Hermant, writer Pierre Véber, and ...

The jug bears full Birmingham hallmarks for 1912 together with the maker’s mark for **Deakin & Francis Ltd**, the historic Birmingham firm established by brothers-in-law Stephen ...

Our international shipping follows all country laws. artfour is an owner-managed trading company dealing in Black Forest woodcarvings, antler furniture and an impressive variety of ...

Our international shipping follows all country laws. artfour is an owner-managed trading company dealing in Black Forest woodcarvings, antler furniture and an impressive variety of ...

The upper scene illustrates the Book of Ruth, chapter 1, verses 7 to 16, in which the widowed Ruth refuses to leave her mother in law Naomi on the road to Bethlehem, with the famous ...

Sir Edward Coke (1552 to 1634) was Chief Justice of the King's Bench under James the First and the author of the Institutes of the Lawes of England, and he was a principal author of ...

This goblets maintains the hallmarks and maker's marks of Brittania, date letter for 1808, maker's marks for Byrne and retailer Law and weighs approximately 10.75 troy ounces.

Impressed on the underside is the mark "GESCHÜTZT" (equivalent to the French "Déposé"), which was stamped onto bronzes to certify that the design was registered and protected under t...

He married into a family of painters: his father-in-law was the battle painter Henri Philippoteaux.

In 1858, following rapid expansion of the Sheffield factory, John Newton Mappin invited his brother-in-law, George Webb to join him in the business. The first association of Mappin &...

Westergo was historically the center of Frisian trade, law, and scholarship, with cities like Franeker (site of the Frisian University until 1811) and Harlingen as a major seaport.

He collaborated with Dublin's finest retailers, in particular, William Law, of Sackville and Catle Street in Dublin, and this piece has the retailer's hallmark as well (see images).

It is a historical trademark and copyright mark found on vintage jewelry, metalware, and tools, indicating the design was registered under German law. Note: This Imperator desk ciga...

Morgan silver dollar dated 1891 struck at New Orleans, a United States one dollar coin in 0.900 fine silver carrying the O mintmark. 1891 was the last year the Sherman Silver Purcha...

The Latin inscription identifies him as a Doctor of Law, Count Palatine and senator of the Republic of Bremen, as well as an envoy of Bremen and the Hanseatic League to the negotiati...

“The Attempted Siege of Mithila” - The approach of warriors with daggers drawn. “The Battle of the Law” - Kevatta kneels before Mahosodha. This epic narrative design is bordered by ...

Ship’s papers have occupied a prominent place in the history of maritime law and in treaties of commerce and navigation.

Hope's best men were his brother-in-law, Angus Hooper, and Fred Meredith, and the wedding was described in The Herald as, "quite a brilliant affair".

Maher was America's leading jockey in 1898. The Hart–Agnew Law anti-gambling legislation forced Maher and numerous other jockeys and trainers to leave America for Europe where they ...

Beginning in 1838 Mêne worked at his own foundry, casting first his own works and later also those of his son-in-law Auguste Cain. He became absorbed in the meticulous work of castin...

Under the management of Bruno Netter, son-in-law of Adolf Herz, who had run the business since the late 1920s, the company merged with Joseph Herz Heimerdinger, another traditional J...

Beside him are Moses and Elijah, representing the Law and the Prophets, while clouds and a wonderfully unruly population of cherubs fill the space beneath them.

Anna Akhmatova, born Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, began writing poetry at just eleven years old. She studied Law and Literature in kyiv between 1908 and 1910, and that same year married ...

Herring, Jr. would, at times, collaborate with his father-in-law, as well as other artists, painting the animals in their works.

Baudouin, a pupil and son-in-law of François Boucher, became renowned for his refined cabinet pictures depicting flirtation, romance and discreetly erotic domestic episodes.

There are accounts of matchmakers and prospective mother in laws who would visit the homes of eligible young ladies while the lunch meal was being prepared, so as to listen to the so...

In the first composition, Christ stands centrally in a flowing red cloak, one hand raised in teaching or blessing, surrounded by a densely grouped assembly of turbaned and robed figu...

To his left is a table strewn with books, scrolls, and quill and inkpot to signify rule of law. This print was published after Washington's death, to celebrate his importance as one ...

Huntington; by descent from the estate of her mother-in-law Marian Prentice Huntington (daughter of American Industrialist Henry E.

The artist frequently visited the home of his brother-in-law in Narragansett, Rhode Island and the Narragansett Bay became his most painted subject throughout the remainder of his ca...

Deyman, the daughter of a mayor of Haarlem, sometime before 1603 and in 1605, he inherited a third of his wealthy father-in-law's estate. As a painter of portraits, of both groups a...

To protect domestic industries, Western governments passed laws requiring imported goods to be clearly marked with their place of origin.

Born at Bourgoin in the Isère in 1864, he read law in Paris and practised as an advocate in Paris and Lyon before abandoning the profession entirely for painting.

He was fascinated by their efforts to replace the intuitive approach of the Impressionists with the “Divisionist” method, a scientific study of nature’s phenomena based on optical la...

He is thus considered the founder of modern copyright law for designer goods and arts and crafts. Designed and made 1924-1936 Dimensions: Height: 17,5 cm / 6.88 in Diame...

Bénard, De Fer's son-in-law and successor, continued the publication and distribution of his cartographic works following De Fer's death.

The coconut-shell bowl having a reeded silver rim over a richly gilded silver-lined interior, the bowls exterior rendered with relief carved detail featuring the coat of arms, crest,...

Our international shipping follows all country laws. artfour is an owner-managed trading company dealing in Black Forest woodcarvings, antler furniture and an impressive variety of ...

Our international shipping follows all country laws. artfour is an owner-managed trading company dealing in Black Forest woodcarvings, antler furniture and an impressive variety of ...

Hoyle's Games of Whist, Quadrill, Piquet, Chess and Back-gammon, Complete : In Which Are Contained, the Method of Playing and Betting, At Those Games, Upon Equal, or Advantageous Ter...

The fleur-de-lis, banished under the Revolution and the Empire, could only be displayed openly after the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1814, and Marie Thérèse was styled Duc...

The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History of the government, of the laws, of the militia, of the religion of all the nations fro...

Our international shipping follows all country laws. artfour is an owner-managed trading company dealing in Black Forest woodcarvings, antler furniture and an impressive variety of ...

These various viewpoints nevertheless compose an Arcadian landscape of great harmony, inviting us on a still walk throughout the painting. While studying law, Pierre Bonnard joined ...

Brandreth; John George Butcher M.P., son-in-law of the above, by 1900; R. S Verelst; Christie’s, 28 June 1963, lot.76; Sabin Galleries Ltd, by 1984; Peter Koblenzer (1922-2019), pu...

Many European workshops used 935 silver in their silverware to ensure that, when exporting to the UK, the minimum standard of 925 sterling required by law there was guaranteed to be ...

Many European workshops used 935 silver in their silverware to ensure that, when exporting to the UK, the minimum standard of 925 sterling required by law there was guaranteed to be ...

So the poem written on the couplets conveys the following meanings: • Carefree yet dignified. • Earthly yet transcendent. • Sincere, rooted in place. 1.尊姻：Honorable In-Laws 2.翁⺟述林：M...

After Velázquez's death in 1660, Mazo succeeded his father-in-law as court painter to Philip IV of Spain, then to Charles II until his death in 1667.

Many European workshops used 935 silver in their silverware to ensure that, when exporting to the UK, the minimum standard of 925 sterling required by law there was guaranteed to be ...

Dow was born in Dysart, Fife and is considered a member of the Glasgow School. Initially he studied law but gave it up to pursue a career as an artist.

Similarly, in the ‘Allegory of Justice and Peace’, we see a solemn composition in which the abstract concepts of good governance and the law are humanised through classical poses and...

Having seen fantasy glass by Marianne von Allesch at an exhibition in Berlin, which he called poetry materialized, he set out to make what he termed frozen poetry: in 1923 he rented ...

Before dedicating himself fully to art, Blas began studying law at the University of Trujillo, but his calling as a painter soon asserted itself.

While no explicit foundry stamp is visible on the exterior rim, the vast majority of Rosa Bonheur’s lifetime bronzes were cast and edited by her brother-in-law, Hippolyte Peyrol, who...