EditorialH-Comb, 1500-1600, made in France or England. Richly carved boxwood combs were given as expensive love tokens in medieval times. The carver chose boxwood because it was the only wood with a sufficiently straight and dense grain to allow him to carve su...
EditorialH-Comb, 1500-1600, made in France or England. Richly carved boxwood combs were given as expensive love tokens in medieval times. The carver chose boxwood because it was the only wood with a sufficiently straight and dense grain to allow him to carve su...
EditorialInkstand, Pen Tray, Pen Holder, 1840-60 carved by William Gibbs Rogers. This ink stand was carved by William Gibbs Rogers (1792-1875) for the Great Exhibition of 1851. He has used lime wood, which is soft and easy to carve. Rogers was one of the most p...
EditorialH-Comb, 1500-1600, made in France or England. Richly carved boxwood combs were given as expensive love tokens in medieval times. The carver chose boxwood because it was the only wood with a sufficiently straight and dense grain to allow him to carve su...
EditorialH-Comb, 1500-1600, made in France or England. Richly carved boxwood combs were given as expensive love tokens in medieval times. The carver chose boxwood because it was the only wood with a sufficiently straight and dense grain to allow him to carve su...
EditorialInr with Flowering Peonies, Japan, Edo period (16151868), Date first half of the 19th century, Japan, Four cases; lacquered wood with gold, silver, red togidashimaki-e on black lacquer ground; Netsuke: carved ivory; sage with a handscroll; Ojime: carve...
EditorialFragment of a shell with a sculpted female head, Iron Age II, ca. 7th century B.C., Levant or Mesopotamia, Shell (Tridacna squamosa), 2 x 3 1/8 in. (5.1 x 7.9 cm), Shell-Vessels, The shell of a species of large clam (Tridacna squamosa), native to the I...
EditorialCrosses sculpted in a slab of the Roman city of Sardis. It was common to carve Christian symbols in places of pagan worship in the early years of Christianity. Anatolia, Turkey.
EditorialLamp, 9th?10th century, Excavated in Iran, Nishapur, Steatite; carved, incised, H. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm), Stone, The carving of utensils and other objects from soft stones is an extremely ancient art in the Near East. Steatite and other related talcs (the...
EditorialNegative - Butchers' Dinner, Ballarat, Victoria, circa 1910, A dinner for the Ballarat butchers. A man, wearing an apron and head covering is about to carve a piece of meat. The dinner is being held in a building with unlined corrugated iron walls. The...
EditorialCrosses sculpted in a slab of the Roman city of Sardis. It was common to carve Christian symbols in places of pagan worship in the early years of Christianity. Anatolia, Turkey.
EditorialStone Oil Lamp, 9th?10th century, Probably from Iran, Nishapur, Steatite; carved, 2 x 3 in. (5.1 x 7.6 cm), Stone, The carving of utensils and other objects from soft stones is is an extremely ancient tradition in the Near East. Steatite and other rela...
EditorialLamp, 9th?10th century, Excavated in Iran, Nishapur, Steatite; carved, incised, H. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm), Stone, The carving of utensils and other objects from soft stones is an extremely ancient art in the Near East. Steatite and other related talcs (the...
EditorialN.E. view of Kailasa. This view is from the rear of the deep pit which had been excavated to carve the temple. The basement of the main temple of the Kailasanath is constituted by a frieze of elephants in high relief almost life-size. The colonnade the...
EditorialFigures and cattle on a track in the foreground; trees and foliage nearby; the Firth of Forth stretching across the scene; a house on the shore; buildings and settlements in the distance; mountains on the horizon . VIEW of the FORTH including the QUEEN...
EditorialCrosses sculpted in a slab of the Roman city of Sardis. It was common to carve Christian symbols in places of pagan worship in the early years of Christianity. Anatolia, Turkey.
EditorialStone Oil Lamp, 9th?10th century, Probably from Iran, Nishapur, Steatite; carved, 2 x 3 in. (5.1 x 7.6 cm), Stone, The carving of utensils and other objects from soft stones is is an extremely ancient tradition in the Near East. Steatite and other rela...
EditorialLamp, 9th?10th century, Excavated in Iran, Nishapur, Steatite; carved, incised, H. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm), Stone, The carving of utensils and other objects from soft stones is an extremely ancient art in the Near East. Steatite and other related talcs (the...
EditorialCapital, late 12th?early 13th century, Made in probably Campania, Italy, South Italian, Marble (Naxian marble from island of Naxos (Greece), hardstone and lead inlay, Overall: 8 7/8 x 10 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. (22.5 x 26 x 26 cm), Sculpture-Stone, The marble...
EditorialFragment of a shell with a sculpted female head, Iron Age II, ca. 7th century B.C., Levant or Mesopotamia, Shell (Tridacna squamosa), 2 x 3 1/8 in. (5.1 x 7.9 cm), Shell-Vessels, The shell of a species of large clam (Tridacna squamosa), native to the I...
Editorial??, ???, ???, ??, Plantain Lily, early 20th century, China, Album leaf; ink and color on paper, 11 x 17 1/4 in. (27.9 x 43.8 cm), Paintings, Chen Hengke (Chinese, 1876?1923), The strong interplay of color and ink, decorative appeal and calligraphy upda...
EditorialGaucho cowboys of the Tucuman, River Plate, Argentina. They wear striped ponchos and trousers, long hair in fur hats, carve wood with knives, while resting near their wagons. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Nasi from Giulio Ferrrario's Costumes A...