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Editorial Cover of a mirror case with a man and a woman playing chess Cover of a mirror box with a young man and a woman at the chess game, Under a opened tent a young man and a woman are sitting on a couch with a chess game on their knees. The man on the left h...
Editorial Tea kettle and stand, Dominick and Haff, New York, Cast, chased, repouss? silver, ivory, The stand is square; a curved stepped edge is ornamented with a repeating design of repousse leaves and berries, against a chased background of overlapping leaves....
Editorial Writing kit, Wood (ebony?), ivory, gold, steel, metal, cork, Writing kit turned from one piece of wood to form a baluster shaft. The base of the shaft unscrews to reveal a small metal inkpot of tapered conical shape. Above a globular section, the centr...
Editorial Spindle, Painted wood shaft; incised and painted ceramic whorl, Spindle with a slender wooden shaft tapered to ends; both ends broken. Black ceramic disk whorl in center with geometric design incised and painted in red and white. Traces of black, white...
Editorial Puzzle glass, Glass, Tapered cylindrical bowl on baluster stem with circular foot. The bowl engraved around the rim with a band of flower heads interwined with leafy fronds., England or Netherlands, ca. 1750, glasswares, Decorative Arts, Puzzle glass.
Editorial Armchair, wood (beech), painted and gilded, Curved and sloping armrests; top and lower seat rails include an oval caned medallion with a central oval panel painted en grisaille with a woman and child. Curved arms are received by stumps extended vertica...
Editorial Side chair, wood, poplar (?), Chair has an open rectangular back. Upper panel is pierced and carved with perspective view of avenue of poplars leading to an arch. Moulded seat rails receive slip seat. Front legs are straight, flat, square, and tapered....
Editorial Side chair, Mahogany, Shield-shaped back. The vase shaped openwork vertical splat consists of five curved vertical slats-- the center one is carved with foliage at the base; the branches into three ostrich feathers. Splats on both sides curving outward...
Editorial Spindle, Medium: wood shaft, ceramic whorl, paint, Spindle with slender wooden shaft tapered to ends. One end broken. Black pottery oval whorl in center, incised and painted with red, white and yellow in design of minute conventionalized faces. Traces ...
Editorial sprinkler.
Editorial Console made of oak, bolus-plated. The body is a cube, embossed in relief with acanthus leaf and ending in a capital of the Ionian order, decorated with leafwork and a large egg frame, including a pearl frame. The cube stands on a protruding base, whic...
Editorial Tankard, 1763, Made in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, American, Silver, Overall: 8 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. (21 x 18.4 cm); 29 oz. 9 oz. (915.2 g), Silver, Benjamin Burt (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1729?1805 Boston, Massachusetts), Early American ta...
Editorial Cover of a mirror case with a man and a woman playing chess Cover of a mirror box with a young man and a woman at the chess game, Under a opened tent a young man and a woman are sitting on a couch with a chess game on their knees. The man on the left h...
Editorial Salt vessel, Salt vessel on a broad low foot, becoming a conically tapered trunk. The base is surrounded by a smooth blue thread, a wavy blue thread around the trunk. The semi-spherical cup, blown in one piece with the trunk, is double-walled due to th...
Editorial Dish of multicolored painted majolica, Round dish of multicolored painted majolica. Three apples with leaves are painted on the arched flat within a broadly decorated circle border. Outside this border, pointed tapered ornaments consisting of stripes a...
Editorial Fragment of a dish with Taoist symbols, Fragment of a dish on a low foot ring. Light red shard covered with tin glaze on the front and lead glaze on the back. Painted in blue, manganese purple, yellow and green with a tube (?), Behind which two crosses...
Editorial Vase with Juda token, Small vase with low, cylindrical foot, spherical body of colorless glass and slightly tapered neck. Double ?berfang in light gray and purple. The decor of Juda tokens made in two etchings. On the body the signature Gall?., ?mile G...
Editorial Cup with golden lines on a blue ground, Porcelain cup with a downwardly tapered wall and angular ear, covered with blue and painted on the glaze in gold. The outer wall is covered with blue, on which twice a double golden line. Just above the base and ...
Editorial Stamp stamp of black stoneware with a depiction of a priestess from the Wedgwood and Bentley factory, Stamp stamp of black stoneware with a recessed depiction of a priestess with two snakes. On the reverse side, octagonal ground and tapered. 'Basalt' f...
Editorial Console made of oak, bolus-plated. The body is a cube, embossed in relief with acanthus leaf and ending in a capital of the Ionian order, decorated with leafwork and a large egg frame, including a pearl frame. The cube stands on a protruding base, whic...
Editorial Boiler, Round boiler with a broad base and tapered upwards. The kettle has a handle and a lid with a knob. The wall of the boiler is six-lobed due to constrictions. The cover is decorated with leaf motifs and the bud has the shape of a flower bud. The ...
Editorial Tea kettle, Tea kettle on low foot. The wide, round barrel gradually changes into a tapered neck. The curved spout ends in a dragon head, the high-curved lid has a vase-shaped bud. Barrel, spout and lid are adorned with fine, driven flowers and leaves ...
Editorial Buckle, Buckle of gold. The long, narrow tapered extension is open cut and consists of flower and leaf motifs. Found in Antioch., anonymous, Byzantium (possibly), c. 500 - c. 700, gold (metal), l 7.0 cm ? w 3.6 cm.
Editorial sprinkler.
Editorial sprinkler.
Editorial Tankard, ca. 1795, Made in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, American, Silver, Overall: 10 1/4 x 8 5/8 in. (26 x 21.9 cm); 42 oz. 4 dwt. (1312.7 g), Silver, Paul Revere Jr. (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1734?1818 Boston, Massachusetts), Mid-eigh...
Editorial Tankard, 1763, Made in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, American, Silver, Overall: 8 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. (21 x 18.4 cm); 29 oz. 9 oz. (915.2 g), Silver, Benjamin Burt (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1729?1805 Boston, Massachusetts), Early American ta...