House of Worth

French, 1858–1956

medium: silk, linen, metal

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 2009.300.622a–c 2009

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Edith Gardiner, 1926

www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/159174

H. 12 9/16 in. (31.9 cm); W. 8 15/16 in. (22.7 cm); D. 13 1/2 in. (34.3 cm); Wt. 4 lb. 11 oz. (2126 g)

medium: Steel, silver, pigment,

brass, gold, glass

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 14.25.650 1914

Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913

www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/22237

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Each of the four gospels in this book opens on a page with brilliantly illuminated borders depicting the author of the text as well as birds-principally peacocks, symbols of the immortality of the soul-and fountains, representing the fountain of life and the salvation of the soul. This volume consists of 428 leaves with texts in Greek. Its level of sophistication suggests that it was probably written and decorated in a monastery in Constantinople.

Byzantium, Constantinople

ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; leather binding

Sheet: 28 x 23 cm (11 x 9 1/16 in.)

Did you know...

Gospel Books were carried in procession through Byzantine churches.

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

clevelandart.org/art/1942.152.219.a

Couthon was originally a supporter of a constitutional monarchy for France, but he became associated with Maximilien Robespierre and was named president of the Convention in 1793. Together with Robespierre he introduced the Reign of Terror. Couthon was guillotined in 1794. The inscription reads in translation, "Couthon: God and the law, virtue, and probity are the order of the day, [there can be] no Republic without morals, without patriotism, [and] without Virtue."

Approx. Diam: 5 1/2 in. (13.97 cm)

medium: bronze

Walters Art Museum, 2006, by gift.

art.thewalters.org/detail/4672

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Forepaws raised in adoration, this ichneumon (a type of mongoose) was a votive gift to the cobra-goddess Wadjet. The dedication to her of a snake-eating mongoose may seem ironic, but it is in keeping with Egyptian concepts of association. The inscription on the base names the donor.

Egyptian

H: 6 3/16 x W: 1 13/16 x D: 2 in. (15.7 x 4.6 x 5.1 cm)

H with tang: 6 11/16 x W: 1 13/16 x D: 2 in. (17 x 4.6 x 5.1 cm)

medium: bronze

culture: Egyptian

dynasty: 26th-27th Dynasty

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

art.thewalters.org/detail/98

Designs cast in sunken relief.

Chinese

5 5/8 x 7 9/16 in. (14.3 x 19.2 cm)

medium: bronze

culture: Chinese

dynasty: Western Zhou [Chou] Dynasty

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

art.thewalters.org/detail/203