EditorialGoods from Arima Arimasan (title on object) A series with horses (series title) Umazukushi (series title on object), Two brushes with a small doll on top, a portable copper writing set, a knife in protective cover and scissors on folded paper. These wr...
EditorialKnives or Scissors to Grind. Genre subject. Watercolor, with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, wove paper. Height: 106 mm (4.17 in); Width: 70 mm (2.75 in).
EditorialScissors. Dated: 1939. Dimensions: overall: 28 x 22.9 cm (11 x 9 in.) Original IAD Object: 3 5/8" long. Medium: watercolor and graphite on paperboard.
EditorialBishop Hill: Small Scissors. Dated: c. 1939. Dimensions: overall: 35.7 x 25 cm (14 1/16 x 9 13/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 7" long; 3/4" wide; loops: 1 3/8" long. Medium: watercolor and graphite on paper.
EditorialThe Scissors-Grinder. Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich; German, 1712-1774. Date: 1741. Dimensions: 141 x 121 mm. Etching printed in black on laid paper. Origin: Germany.
EditorialBishop Hill: Scissors. Dated: c. 1939. Dimensions: overall: 34 x 24.5 cm (13 3/8 x 9 5/8 in.) Original IAD Object: 10 1/2" long; 1" wide. Medium: watercolor and graphite on paper.
EditorialCup with an ear, multi-colored with a representation of the month of November, Cylindrical cup with an S-shaped ear, painted porcelain. The cup is painted with a cartouche of leaf and network, with a couple and a beggar on stools in a landscape and abo...
EditorialScissors case, 17th century, French, Steel, Overall (confirmed): 3 13/16 ? 1 5/16 ? 3/16 in. (9.7 ? 3.4 ? 0.5 cm), Metalwork-Steel, The rather sophisticated ornamental piercing on this case represents a transitional moment: the language is ultimately d...
EditorialGames unknown, 14th century. A variant of hide and seek, and boys playing a guessing game where one holds up a certain number of fingers and his colleagues have to show the same, similar to scissors, paper, rock. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strut...
EditorialTailor's workshop, In a tailor's workshop there is a woman with a copper bucket and a tailor with his two young servants who are sewing on a table by the window. On the wall hang a painting (river landscape), a pincushion and a birdcage and on the tabl...
EditorialNecessaire of gilded copper in relief decorated with rocailles, in which a pair of scissors, screw-in travel cutlery, screw, awl, curved needle, folding ruler, slate, toothpick / ear scoop, needle case and tweezers / file. Model: Flat, tapered, with li...
EditorialJean Louis Petit's machine to compress the femoral artery during amputation of the thigh 1, and bandages 2, aneurysm needle 3 and scissors 4. Copperplate engraving by Robert Benard from Denis Diderot's Encyclopedia, Pellet, Geneva, 1779.
EditorialBone saw 1, pincers 2,3, scissors 4, lead mallet 5 and hook for childbirth 6. Copperplate engraving by Robert Benard from Denis Diderot's Encyclopedia, Pellet, Geneva, 1779.
EditorialButterfly collector's tools from the 18th century: aerial net on a cane 1, scissors with racquets 2, small preservative brush 6, and soft brush to remove dust 9. Steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers from Hippolyte Lucas' Natural History of European ...
EditorialItems for Japanese flower arrangement, ikebana. Teapot, scissors, flowers and a lacquer tray. Handcoloured woodblock engraving hanga from a book of the Shinshintei school of Ikebana, 1835.
EditorialWoman of the Puster Valley, Tyrol, Switzerland, 19th century. She wears a large crepe hat over a small muslin bonnet. The scissors and belt is a family heirloom passed from mother to daughter. She is tending a rose bush in a pot. Handcoloured copperpla...
EditorialThe Fates (Atropos) - detail.The figure on the right,"Morta", cuts the thread of human life with her scissors. One of the "black paintings" from the Quinta del Sordo, Goya's house. 1819-1823 Canvas, 123 x 266 cm Cat.757.
EditorialScissors. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 34.8 x 27.8 cm (13 11/16 x 10 15/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 10" long; 2" wide. Medium: watercolor and graphite on paper.