Texas has opened up land for homesteaders. Clay Allison wants their land and has his men led by Plummer try to start a range war between them and the ranchers. With each side suspecting the other of their problems, the Mesquiteers realize someone else is responsible. Stony suspects Plummer and fakes leaving the Mesquiteers to…
Author: Myrian Cavalli
Spice jar
18th Century Chinese underglaze blue and white spice jar, with the original lid. This is an intensely decorated jar, fully ornamented with a motif. The design, with vertical panels of white on blue bamboo, was made for the southeast Asian market.
Buck Jones
The Pamplin Collection owns one of the largest western movie poster collections in private hands. Here is a poster of “Outlawed Guns,” starring the “B” western star Buck Jones. Although born in Indiana, Jones reportedly (but disputedly) grew up on a ranch near Red Rock, Oklahoma were he learned to ride and shoot, skills that…
Mending
by Daniel Ridgway Knight (1839-1924) Oil on canvas, 46 x 35”. Knight studied in America (with Mary Cassatt and Thomas Eakins) and at l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. After painting battle scenes during the Civil War, he returned to France, ultimately being knighted in the Legion of Honor. In 1896 Knight received the Grand Medal…
The Lone Ranger
Illustration for the cover of Dell Comics, by Don Spaulding (American, 1926). Spaulding studied with Norman Rockwell and by his early 30s was “the” Lone Ranger artist for Dell. He subsequently focused on fine art. His skill at presenting action and color are well illustrated here.
An Earth Spirit
(Lokapala), whose job is to provide protection against evil spirits. This statue has a head ornament of a bird figure, and epaulets of tigers’ faces, thus making this item quite rare. Only the phoenix and the tiger can introduce the deceased into the afterlife, making this specimen far more important than more typical earth spirits. …
Uniform, medals and maps of Lt. Robert L. Keller
Who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Silver Star, among other medals and awards, as a navigator on bombing expeditions in southern Europe, 1944-45. His plane, Dinah Might, flew dozens of missions out of northern Italy against enemy oil fields and fighter plane manufacturing plants. The painting of a B-25 (ca. 1944), is…
A Tang Dynasty scholar, dating to the early 10th century.
his type of figure was placed in the tomb to accompany the deceased into the afterlife and provide intellectual companionship through eternity.
Priest’s vestry, Bishop’s ring and silver cross from 1700s
A full-length priest’s vestry, a long, vest-like cloak, magnificently embroidered front and back on red velvet. French, ca. 1700. The Archbishop’s or Bishop’s ring is of gold with a Byzantine cross carved on the underside of the amethyst. 17th century. The large and elaborate silver cross dates from the early 1700s and is French, though…
One of four Earth Spirits from the Tang Dynasty (ca. 850 CE).
An earth spirit’s role is to protect the tomb from evil spirits, with one figure placed at each of the four cardinal directions.