Sterling silver is an alloy of silver containing 92.5% by weight of silver and 7.5% by weight of other metals, usually copper. The sterling silver standard has a minimum millesimal fineness of 925.
Silver of 921/2 percent purity
a silver alloy with no more than 7.5% copper
Silver of a fineness of 92.5%.
A painting by such a painter
A great artist of former times, esp. of the 13th–17th century in Europe
a great European painter prior to 19th century
(Old Masters (novel)) Old Masters (subtitled A Comedy) is a novel by the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard, first published in 1985. It tells of the life and opinions of Reger, a 'musical philosopher', through the voice of his acquaintance Atzbacher, a 'private academic'.
"Old Master" (or "old master") is a term for a European painter of skill who worked before about 1800, or a painting by such an artist. An "old master print" is an original print (for example an engraving or etching) made by an artist in the same period. Likewise an "old master drawing".
Joseph Rishel, Old Masters Symposium
Participants in the Symposium for Thinking Museums: Old Masters and New Priorities
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, Missouri &
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
October 24 – 26, 2008
Michael Conforti (in Williamstown only)
Director
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Thomas Gaehtgens (in St. Louis only)
Director
The Getty Research Institute
Francesca Herndon-Consagra
Senior Curator
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis
Michael Anne Holly
Director of Research and Academic Programs
Sterline and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Eik Kahng
Curator and Head of the Department of 18th- and 19th-century art
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Mark Ledbury
Associate Director of Research and Academic Programs
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Judith Mann (in St. Louis only)
Curator of European Art to 1800
Saint Louis Art Museum
Richard Rand (in Williamstown only)
Senior Curator and Curator of Paintings and Sculpture
Clark Art Institute
Emily Rauh Pulitzer
Founder and Chairman
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis
Joseph Rishel
The Gisela and Dennis Alter Senior Curator of European Painting before 1900, and Senior Curator of the John G. Johnson Collection and the Rodin Museum
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Martha Ward
Associate Professor of Art History
The University of Chicago
Matthias Waschek
Director
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis
Giles Waterfield
Novelist, Independent Curator and Director of the Attingham Summer School and Royal Collection Studies, London
Stephanie Wiles
John G. W. Cowles Director
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College
Stephan Wolohojian
Landon Lavinia Clay Curator; Head of Paintings, Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge
James N. Wood
President and Chief Executive Officer
The J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles
Kulapat Yantrasast
Partner
wHY Architecture, Los Angeles
Taijitu ring of the Old Master Laozi ,star sapphire set in sterling silver
Taijitu ring of the Old Master Laozi ,star sapphire set in sterling silver .
The stone is a white grey natural star sapphire 16. 2 ct roughly 12 mm x 10 mm x 8 mm . The band was crafted by weaving three wires together to create the center design then bordered with two more wires backed with a silver sheet . on one side the flow is interupted with the Taijitu symbol of opposite forces working in Balance .
ring size 8
total weight 10 grams
In Asian philosophy, the concept of yin yang which is often referred to in the West as yin and yang is used to describe how polar opposites or seemingly contrary forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, There is a perception in the West that yin and yang correspond to evil and good. However, Taoist philosophy generally discounts good/bad distinctions and other dichotomous moral judgments, in preference to the idea of balance .