Praenestine Cista with Cover Medieval Money

Praenestine Cista with Cover Medieval MoneyCylindrical boxes such as the one that inspired this one were probably made to contain womens toilet articles and jewelry, and seem to have been popular during the Hellenistic period (between the fourth and first centuries B. C.) Excavated in 1864 at Palestrina, southeast of Rome, the site known in ancient times as Praeneste. A nude female acrobat forms the handle of the cover. We have stylized the cista, rendering it more appropriate aesthetically

Honoring the designers

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He earned his reputation as “the Napoleon of Wall Street” by reorganizing the nation’s railroads and creating industrial giants such as General Electric and U

The Blackwing One-Step Long Point Sharpener creates a long

the Hortus Eystettensis is in a class of its own when it comes to the range of flowers engraved

and decoration of the bindings

which attracted the likes of Antoine Watteau and Nicolas Lancret

shelf or hung on a wall using the pre-drilled mounting holes

Painter and draftsman Jacob Marrel became one of the foremost practitioners of the genre

Mary is pregnant with Jesus

The great painter Henri Matisse was also a great book illustrator

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