~ Brazier in the Form of the Old God.

Place of origin: Teotihuacan, Mexico

Period: Early Classic period (250 B.C.–A.D. 600)

Date: ca. A.D. 400–500

~ Treasure of Boscoreale: Goblet with Skeletons

Date: 25 B.C-A.D. 50

Period: Imperial Period

Culture: Roman

Place of origin: Italy, Boscoreale (Villa de la Pisanella)

~ Stater of Phalasarna with head of Artemis.

Culture: Greek

Period: Late Classical Period

Date: 350 B.C.

Mint: Crete, Phalasarna

Sette

Designed by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (British)

c.1875

Wisteria Lamp

Tiffany and Co.

1903-1905

~ Pasiphae or Europa with a Bull.

Culture: Coptic

Date: A.D. 6th-7th century C.E.

Period: Late Antique Period

~ Standard of Selket.

Date: 1076-723 B.C.

Period: Third Intermediate Period

~ Bottle with Animals and Plants.

Date: A.D. 4th-5th century 

Culture: Roman or Early Byzantine, Eastern Mediterranean

Period: Roman-Byzantine

~ Pendant (Peishi) in the Form of a Dragon.

Place of origin: China

Place of origin: Late Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period

Date: 481-221 B.C.

This #publishersbindingThursday we are admiring this wonderfully textured cloth grain and the very fitting gilt title decoration on the spine. It also has us wondering, when was the last time you sent someone a letter? Send us one! We’ll write you back!