EditorialPier tables, Joined, turned, veneered satinwood inlaid with tulipwood, harewood and other woods, Each of demi-lune form, the top inlaid with ribbon-tied floral garlands set into the satinwood, all centered by a fluted demi-lune, that when the tables ar...
EditorialLongcase clock, Clockmaker: Hermann Achenbach (German, born 1730, active before 1759?92), Clockmaker: Johann Schmidt (German, 1735?1795), Case by David Roentgen (German, Herrnhaag 1743?1807 Wiesbaden, master 1780), Marquetry panel by Reusch, ca. 1774?7...
EditorialChinese man bowing cotton to remove husks, Qing Dynasty. He uses a bamboo frame to bow the cotton to remove dirt from the cotton down. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste Bertin and...
EditorialThe least of pepper husks into circles, round about was with the greatest Piper Indicum, Pepper, Copperplate, p. 734, Besler, Basilius; Jungermann, Ludwig, 1713, Basilius Besler: Hortus Eystettensis (...). N?rnberg, 1713.
EditorialLongcase clock, Clockmaker: Hermann Achenbach (German, born 1730, active before 1759?92), Clockmaker: Johann Schmidt (German, 1735?1795), Case by David Roentgen (German, Herrnhaag 1743?1807 Wiesbaden, master 1780), Marquetry panel by Reusch, ca. 1774?7...
EditorialLongcase clock, Clockmaker: Hermann Achenbach (German, born 1730, active before 1759?92), Clockmaker: Johann Schmidt (German, 1735?1795), Case by David Roentgen (German, Herrnhaag 1743?1807 Wiesbaden, master 1780), Marquetry panel by Reusch, ca. 1774?7...