Image: Winepot (left) and saucepot (right), Jingdezhen kilns, China, c.1670, Qing dynasty, Kangxi reign (1662–1722). From the Butler Collection. One of the world’s finest collections of seventeenth-century Chinese porcelain began with a single purchase and a...
Image: Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece). Workshop of Robert Campin Netherlandish ca. 1427–32 The figure of Mary’s husband Joseph is familiar from Christmas cards, carols, cribs and nativity plays, yet in the Bible he never speaks a word. It took many...
