This Greek Lekythos is made of red clay and painted in black. The form is elongated and cylindrical, while the neck is long with a shoulder. Its a type of Greek pottery used in the toilet to store oils or in funeral rites to be placed with the deceased in the grave.

Greek Lekythos

This Greek Lekythos is made of red clay and painted in black. The form is elongated and cylindrical,…

This Greek Lekythos is made of red clay and painted in black. The form is elongated and cylindrical, while the neck is long with a shoulder. Its a type of Greek pottery used in the toilet to store oils or in funeral rites to be placed with the deceased in the grave.

Greek Lekythos

This Greek Lekythos is made of red clay and painted in black. The form is elongated and cylindrical,…

This Greek Lekythos is painted in black and white. The form is elongated and cylindrical, while the neck is long with a shoulder. Its a type of Greek pottery used in the toilet to store oils or in funeral rites to be placed with the deceased in the grave.

Greek Lekythos

This Greek Lekythos is painted in black and white. The form is elongated and cylindrical, while the…

An illustration of a man wearing a black top hat and holding a cane in his left hand.

Man with Hat and Cane

An illustration of a man wearing a black top hat and holding a cane in his left hand.

A plant used both as a salad and for manufacturing into table mustard.

Black Seeded Mustard

A plant used both as a salad and for manufacturing into table mustard.

The Argent Ordinary is a barrulet sable (black).

Argent Ordinary

The Argent Ordinary is a barrulet sable (black).

The Argent Ordinary has a canton (corner) sable (black) on the dexter side (right side).

Argent Ordinary

The Argent Ordinary has a canton (corner) sable (black) on the dexter side (right side).

The Argent Ordinary is a pallet (narrow vertical strip) in sable (black) color.

Argent Ordinary

The Argent Ordinary is a pallet (narrow vertical strip) in sable (black) color.

The Or Ordinary in the dexter (right side) is a chief triangle sable (black).

Or Ordinary

The Or Ordinary in the dexter (right side) is a chief triangle sable (black).

The Or Ordinary is a pile design in sable (black). The Per chevron design is in or and sable (black).

Or Ordinary

The Or Ordinary is a pile design in sable (black). The Per chevron design is in or and sable (black).

The Paly of Four Ordinary is colors of argent (silver) and sable (black)

Paly of Four Ordinary

The Paly of Four Ordinary is colors of argent (silver) and sable (black)

The Paly of six Ordinary is in colors argent (silver) and sable (black) with a fesse counterchanged.

Paly of Six Ordinary

The Paly of six Ordinary is in colors argent (silver) and sable (black) with a fesse counterchanged.

The Per Bend Sinister Ordinary is a bendy of six. It has colors of sable (black) and argent (silver), counterchanged.

Per Bend Sinister Ordinary

The Per Bend Sinister Ordinary is a bendy of six. It has colors of sable (black) and argent (silver),…

The Per Fesse Ordinary has an upper half that is per pale sable (black) and gules (red), and the lower half is argent (silver).

Per Fesse Ordinary

The Per Fesse Ordinary has an upper half that is per pale sable (black) and gules (red), and the lower…

The Per pale Ordinary has colors of sable (black) and or.

Per Pale Ordinary

The Per pale Ordinary has colors of sable (black) and or.

The Per Pall Ordinary is in sable (black), argent (silver) and gules (red).

Per Pall Ordinary

The Per Pall Ordinary is in sable (black), argent (silver) and gules (red).

The Sable Ordinary has a chief engrailed in or color, and a per fesse engrailed in or and sable (black).

Sable Ordinary

The Sable Ordinary has a chief engrailed in or color, and a per fesse engrailed in or and sable (black).

Illustrations depicting a black knot of a plum. "1...represents the general appearance of the black-knot of the plum; 2, a cross-section; 2, an enlarged view of it, showing indentations on the external surface of the conceptacles or perithecia of the fungus; 4, a longitudinal section of the black-knot and branch of a plumtree...5, a typical representation of the perithecia." -Watts, 1874

Black knot of the plum

Illustrations depicting a black knot of a plum. "1...represents the general appearance of the black-knot…

"In answer to a communication of mine, Professor C. H. Peck, botanist, of Albany new York, informs me that he has found sacks filled with spores with in the perithecia of black-knot, and has furnished me with a sketch of the sack as seen by him, (see U, Fig. 17.) I represents a highly magnified view of the true spore of this for of Shaeria." -Watts, 1874

Black knot of the plum

"In answer to a communication of mine, Professor C. H. Peck, botanist, of Albany new York, informs me…

This Greek Prochous has a geometrical style made out of red clay and painted in black. It was used as a sacrificial vessel from which offerings of wine were poured out.

Greek Prochous

This Greek Prochous has a geometrical style made out of red clay and painted in black. It was used as…

"Rooting 'tip' of black raspberry." — Baily, 1898

Black raspberry

"Rooting 'tip' of black raspberry." — Baily, 1898

"Pellet, sable. In addition to the foregoing tinctures, there are nine roundlets or balls used in Armory, the names of which are sufficient to denote their colour without expressing the same." -Hall, 1862

Roundlet Pellet

"Pellet, sable. In addition to the foregoing tinctures, there are nine roundlets or balls used in Armory,…

Sable (black) represented on a shield.

Sable

Sable (black) represented on a shield.

A shield or escutcheon emblazoned with the color tincture, sable (black), represented by crossed vertical and horizontal lines.

Sable Shield Color

A shield or escutcheon emblazoned with the color tincture, sable (black), represented by crossed vertical…

<i>Melanitta americana or &OElig;demia nigra</i> A large sea-duck of the genus <i>CEdemia</i>, belonging to the subfamily <i>Fuligulinaea</i>, having in the male the plumage black and a red gibbosity of the bill, as <i>&OElig;demia nigra</i> of Europe.
<p>In this illustration, the duck is swimming in a large body of water. There is a lighthouse in the background.

A Black Scoter Swimming

Melanitta americana or Œdemia nigra A large sea-duck of the genus CEdemia, belonging to the subfamily…

"They are accordingly found on the mountainour parts of Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cumberland, and Westmoreland; over the whole of the Lammermuir range, the upper part of Lanarkshire, and generally over the Highlands of Scotland. Both male and female of this breed have horns, which in the former are very large and spirally twisted. The face and legs are black or specked with black, with an occasional tendency to this color on the fleece; but there is nothing of the brown or russet color which distinguishes the down breeds." — Encyclopedia Britanica, 1893

Black-Faced Heath Sheep

"They are accordingly found on the mountainour parts of Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cumberland, and Westmoreland;…

A heraldic shield with a black surface, which is shown by the crossing horizontal and vertical lines.

Sable Shield

A heraldic shield with a black surface, which is shown by the crossing horizontal and vertical lines.

This Antique small vessel is made out of yellow clay and painted in black.

Antique Small Vessel

This Antique small vessel is made out of yellow clay and painted in black.

This Antique small vessel has engraved ornamentation and is painted in black clay.

Antique Small Vessel

This Antique small vessel has engraved ornamentation and is painted in black clay.

"Egyptian Statue in black basalt. Heroic size, in the British Museum." &mdash;D'Anvers, 1895

Egyptian statue

"Egyptian Statue in black basalt. Heroic size, in the British Museum." —D'Anvers, 1895

Also known as the European stilt, the black-winged stilt inhabits coastal areas where it forages for worms and small mollusca.

Black-Winged Stilt

Also known as the European stilt, the black-winged stilt inhabits coastal areas where it forages for…

An illustration of a black umbrella with a curved handle.

Black Umbrella with Curved Handle

An illustration of a black umbrella with a curved handle.

"The Umbrella Bird is a native of Peru. It is about the size of a crow, with deep black plumage; the head is adorned with a large spreading crest, which arises from a contractile skin, and capable of being erected at will; the shafts of the crest-feathers are white, and the plumes glossy blue, hair-like and curved outward at the tips. When the crest is laid back the shafts form a compact white mass, sloping up from the back of the head; when it is erected the shafts radiate on all sides from the top of the head, reaching in front beyond and below the beak, which is thus completely concealed from view. A long cylindrical plume hangs down from the middle of the neck; the feathers of the plume lap over each other like scales, and are bordered with metallic blue. Umbrella birds associate in small flocks, and live almost entirely upon fruits. Their cry, which resembles the lowing of a cow, is most frequently heard just before sunrise and after sunset."&mdash;(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)

Umbrellabird

"The Umbrella Bird is a native of Peru. It is about the size of a crow, with deep black plumage; the…

Found in Europe from Sweden to the Medittanean Sea, the black viper is also the only venemous reptile in Grat Britain.

Black viper

Found in Europe from Sweden to the Medittanean Sea, the black viper is also the only venemous reptile…

Genus <em>Coragyps</em>, about the size of a small turkey. This one is feeding on a cow's head.

Black Vulture

Genus Coragyps, about the size of a small turkey. This one is feeding on a cow's head.

Black vulture (or carrion crow), genus <em>Coragyps</em>, about the size of a small turkey. This group is feeding on a fallen pig.

Black Vulture

Black vulture (or carrion crow), genus Coragyps, about the size of a small turkey. This group…

This is tree is native to North America, known for its dark wood and edible nuts.

Black Walnut

This is tree is native to North America, known for its dark wood and edible nuts.

Chiefly making its habitat in Northern Europe, the great black woodpecker uses its long, sharp bill to bore into trees in search of insects.

Great black Woodpecker

Chiefly making its habitat in Northern Europe, the great black woodpecker uses its long, sharp bill…

An African equid best known for their distinctive black and white stripes.

Zebra

An African equid best known for their distinctive black and white stripes.