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Detailed sketches of decorative elements such as lamps, brooches, and candlesticks from the 19th century, reflecting elegant craftsmanship.

Girandole puts Slangen, A. Colinet, After Jean François Forty, 1775 - 1790 print An ornamented two -armed girandole with leaf motifs and snakes. Paris paper etching / engraving Chandelier, a candlestick. snakes
Girandole puts Slangen, A. Colinet, After Jean François Forty, 1775 - 1790 print An ornamented two -armed girandole with leaf motifs and snakes. Paris paper etching / engraving Chandelier, a candlestick. snakes
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Nine Designs for Decorated Cups 1845-55 Alfred Henry Forrester Alfred Crowquill British. Nine Designs for Decorated Cups 394848Wood Engraving, Tools, from Encyclopédie. A. J. Defehrt (French, active 18th century); published by André le Breton (French, 1708-1779), Michel-Antoine David (French, c. 1707-1769), Laurent Durand (French, 1712-1763), and Antoine-Claude Briasson (French, 1700-1775). Date: 1762-1777. Dimensions: 310 × 208 mm (image); 355 × 225 mm (plate); 400 × 265 mm (sheet). Engraving on cream laid paper. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: A. J. Defehrt.Showcase with metal objects including crates, referred to as iron tray; Gothic hall (formerly ceramic hall). .Metal dish and vase from the 16th century, Anonymous, c. 1860 - c. 1885 photograph photographic support albumen print container of metal: bucket, can, canister, drum, tinLon Cronk, Shaker Small Corner Cupboard, c 1937 Shaker Small Corner CupboardAmerican 20th Century, Chair, 1935 1942 ChairJuan Laurent y Minier (Photographer) / 'Cup with a gold mermaid, Jasper cup with cameos and emeralds, lapis lazuli goblet'. Ca. 1879. Albumen on photographic paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.Design for Five Vases ca. 1770-85 Anonymous, French, 18th century French. Design for Five Vases 344087Cups and saucers of the Carree style: with flowers by Huny, gilt by Chauveau; with flowers by Niquet, gilt by Vincent 1781; and with flowers by Catrice 1766. Chromolithograph by Gillot of an illustration by Edouard Garnier from The Soft Paste Porcelain of Sevres, Maison Quantin, Paris, 1891.Three vascular designs. Two lid cups and a double cup, reversed copy to A. Altdorfer (Bartsch No. 96), with Funck number 68. Foliage with hump-parent.Design for a Set of Silver Tableware, Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780-1828, Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash over graphite on off-white laid paper, A hand bell. the lower part of the handle is shaped like a lyre. Marked, as all the letters, in pencil: 'Q.' A glass in a lower frame, 'L.' A cup shown sidewise; laurel staffs are the decoration; 'N.' A tureen topped by a putto with a bird in a sphere. The handles consist of angular bands, Medusae, plant motifs; 'A.' An egg cup consisting of a bowl carried by Atlas; 'G.' A sugar spoon; 'I.' A sugar bowl; the handles are like those of the tureen; 'H.' Another sugar spoon with a larger bowl; 'I.' A candlestick with a burning candle; a Medusa forms the handle; 'P.' Second row, laterally: two glass bottles in low frames; 'K.' Third row: a knife, a spoon, a fork; 'O.' A candlestick: a boy with a snake standing on a sphere raises with the left hand a cup with a burning candle; round pedestal; 'R.' A pitcher shown sidewise. A goat forms the handWoodburytype photograph by Victor Angerer depicting a still life with items from the Ambras collection and a model of the Danube female by Hans Gasser, 1882.Margaret Golden, Trivet, c 1941 TrivetORIFLAMME : CONFEDERATION NATIONALE A PARIS Noriflame: National Confederation in Paris on July 14, 1790, French army.All-porcelain bidet. Plate 897-G and Plate 898-G. All-porcelain flushing-rim bidet. Plate 881-G and Plate 882-G.. text. Illustrations, Advertisements, Catalogs. 1877 - 1893. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Plumbing , Equipment and supplies , CatalogsFestoen of fruits and a still life of fruits and a vase with carnations, c. 1887 - in or before 1897 photomechanical print maker: Austriapublisher: Vienna paper collotype still life of related objects. ornament ~ festoon, garland. flowers: carnationDrawing, Metal Portable Table for Garden or Terrace; graphite on white tracing paperRectangular snuff box, anonymous, c. 1780 Front view of a rectangular snuff box with beveled corners, decorated the front with a vase in the midst of leaf voltues, the corners with naked female figures in voluten. Paris paper. ink brush / pen snuff-boxRitual implements including a finial of a processional staff and part of a lion-shaped lamp, Talaga, Cirebon district, West Java province, 16th-18th century, Indonesia. Isidore van Kinsbergen, 1863 - 1864.Twee armchairs, Quéton, 1885 - 1895 print Twee armchairs. Take 283rd delivery. paper seating furnitureOA Kirby, Hair Brooch, c 1937 Hair BroochRanat Ek, Khong Yai and Ta'Khay. These instruments belonged to H.M. the King of Siam. Harmonicas made of wood and metal such as the Ranat and Khong were the foundation of music in Siam, Burma, Java and the Indian Archipelago.Antwerp, Simonau & Toovey, Mechelen, Maes, Joseph, Seven metal candlesticks, displayed at an exhibition on religious objects from the Middle Ages and Renaissance in 1864 in Mechelen, recto - printed, photomechanical print, page, photographs, photographically illustrated books, -53, recto - handwritten, 7. 8. 9. 10., 11. 12. 13.,, 10 - 12 - 7 - 8 - 13 - 9 - 11, height 183 mm, width 227 mm, Belgian, 1838 - 1908, photographer, 1864 - 1866, paper, papier, photolithography, fotolithografie, clichémakerAltar Rail Gate. Dated: c. 1939. Dimensions: overall: 41 x 30.7 cm (16 1/8 x 12 1/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 28" high, 17" wide. Medium: watercolor and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Manuel G. Runyan.Stiehl Otto (1860-1940): Sketch and photo album 1: Mobiliar, BraubachRotunda, vintage engraved illustration. Dictionary of words and things - Larive and Fleury - 1895. James M Lawson, Shutter Hinge and Fastener, c 1936 Shutter Hinge and FastenerEugene Barrell, Spinning Wheel, 1935 1942 Spinning WheelFanish brothers, salt bottles. Sixteen drawings and a photograph (main title). All techniques. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.Springfield Foundry, showing a varity of iron items that they make. from a verandah, boiler stoves to ornate gates. Date: 1889Sixteen tokens with decorated lists, Simon de la Boissière, 1647 - 1682 print Upstairs numbered: 20. France paper etching medal (considered as a piece of sculpture, regardless of its specific function)Flowers in a vase with Chinese motifs, Théodore Roussel, 1896 - 1897 print paper etching / drypoint flowers in a vaseCard Table. Dated: c. 1940. Dimensions: overall: 27.2 x 22.2 cm (10 11/16 x 8 3/4 in.) Original IAD Object: 29 1/4"high; 36"wide, top. See scale drawing for dets.. Medium: pen and ink and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Isidore Sovensky.Showcase with ceramics, at the bottom of a tile tablet between two brushes; West. Courtyard. .Design for a Round Dining Table on Scrolled Feet, A.N. Davenport Co., Graphite on thin cream paper, Round molded table top with dividing stretcher across center, raised on fluted columnar support with molded double band around bottom sitting atop cross-shaped molded base terminating in scroll feet with carved floral rosettes., 1900-05, furniture, Drawing, DrawingShaker Candle Sconce. Dated: 1935/1942. Dimensions: overall: 27.8 x 22.8 cm (10 15/16 x 9 in.) Original IAD Object: 16" high; 8 1/2"wide; 7" deep. Medium: watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Anne Ger.Children's furniture donated to Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands, by the Apeldoorn women on the occasion of the birth of Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands, on April 30, 1909..Portable toy shop. .Ivory throne from India exhibited on the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations of 1851 in London; Ivory Throne. India.Long chair, Léon Laroche, 1895 - 1935 print A chaise longue consisting of three parts. Print from 347th number (Livraison). paper seating furnitureThe International Exhibition - stove by Messrs. Stuart and Smith, of Sheffield, 1862. 'The stove which we engrave is one of considerable beauty; for, while in point of design it is highly meritorious, it has, superadded to form, an amount of colour such as we rarely see in works of this character. It is formed of iron, bronze, ormoulu, and encaustic tiles, which are so combined as to produce a very agreeable effect, the least successful portions being the tiles, individually considered, which suffer through the ornament not being outlined with either white or black. The structural portions areAntwerp, Maes, Joseph, Traîneaux, XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècle, Wooden sleds, gilded and painted, recto - stamped, photomechanical print, page, photos, photographically illustrated books, TRAINEAUX en bois, recto - printed, MEUBLES. PL. 8., JJvY, height 344 mm, width 235 mm, photographer, 1881 - 1889, paper, collotype, photoprint, photolithography, Belgian, 1838 - 1908, cliché maker, Work conceptionLijkkist van wijlen Z.M. Willem II.The coffin in which the late King Willem II is buried in Delft on April 4, 1849.Gorget with the coats of arms of Poland and Lithuania and blade piece of a standard from the 1794 Kościuszko uprising, from the collection of Antoni Strzałecki ; drawing for the publication: Dominika Jeżewskiego Skarbiec Zabytków Polskich znajdujących się. Sztolcman, Władysław Roman (1873-1950), painterDesigns in semi-profile for ISEGER: Vases, cups, a bowl, a bowl and a dish of pottery ..Weapons, pottery objects, aratory instruments and ornaments of the Indians Siriniris, Peru. South America. Trip to the Valley of the QuinasJ Peltzman, Piano, 1936 PianoDesign for Oak Serving Table, A.N. Davenport Co., Graphite on thin cream paper, Rectangular body with molded edges and molded drawer attached beneath; raised on 4 reeded straight rectangular legs; oblong lower shelf with demi-lune cut-out front center attaches mid-way up from floor level; on table top, tray with teapot and cup and saucer., 1900-05, furniture, Drawing, DrawingComposition of plaster ornaments from the studio of J. Delbove, Brussels. Photo from an incomplete series of 13 photos. Photo has traces of an eye on the top showing that the photo has hung. Recto has been notified by numbers per object, corresponding to a handwritten list that is stuck.Photograph by Victor Angerer depicting a still life with items from the Ambras collection and a model of the Danube female by Hans Gasser, printed as a technical collotype in 1882.Canapower, Midart, 1839 - 1885 print A canapé in the Louis XV style. Print from 253rd Livraison. paper seating furniturePEARL NECKLACE GIVEN TO THE BRIDE BY THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY, 1879Types of propellerMedal Engraving, from Encyclopédie 1762-1777 France. Engraving on cream laid paper . A. J. DefehrtWellington Blewett, Flask, c 1936 Flask28 coins; Kosicki, Ludwik (1793-1846); 1840 (1840-00-00-1840-00-00);Florence Stevenson, Hair Bracelet, Earrings, and Brooch, c 1936 Hair Bracelet, Earrings, and BroochOwl play. The owl game. A circular board game with boxes with objects, animals and dice. In the middle an owl with a mirror. Under the show the rules in two columns.Antwerp, Simonau & Toovey, Mechelen, Maes, Joseph, Two gilded silver chrismatories, displayed at an exhibition of religious objects from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in 1864 in Mechelen, recto - printed, photomechanical print, page, photographs, photographically illustrated books, -38, recto - handwritten, 52 u 53, 53 - 52, height 154 mm, width 180 mm, Belgian, 1838 - 1908, photographer, 1864 - 1866, paper, papier, photolithography, fotolithografie, clichémakerTwee Long Chair, Chanat, 1885 - 1895 print Twee long chair. Take a 330th delivery. paper seating furnitureHunting, Other Sketches in Central Africa, The Congo, Kwilu, & South West Coast District 1884-1888, Central Africa, Nzaubula, Pictorial Works, Sketchbooks, Travel, The illustration features a series of four distinct tools, each displayed in a vertical arrangement. From left to right, the first tool resembles a slender paddle or scoop, characterized by its elongated shape and rounded end. The second tool appears to be a simple, straight rod, likely used for precise tasks. The third tool, wider and more robust, resembles a spade or shovel, suitable for digging or scooping material. Finally, the fourth tool is a long, cylindrical implement that tapers to a rounded end, potentially serving as a rod or handle. Each tool seems well-defined, showcasing craftsmanship and utility in design, with subtle shades enhancing their forms against the background.James McLellan, Toy Sleigh, c 1937 Toy SleighFive designs for tables. .Technical collotype photograph by Victor Angerer showing a still life arrangement of items from the Ambras collection and a model of the Danube female by Hans Gasser, 1882.Monogram LS surrounded by ornaments. On a crowned cartouche the monogram SL or LS. Around ornaments of leaf motifs and weapons.Two twigs with flowers and two brooch-shaped patterns; Examples for embroidery in gold with precious stones.Trade cards depicting a woman using a Singer sewing machine, a crane, bamboo, butterfly, bird, horseshoe, ship, sea, mountain and stairs.. Trade cards. 1876 - 1890. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Birds, Boats, SewingJohn Hancock's Wallet. Dated: c. 1938. Dimensions: overall: 52.4 x 37.4 cm (20 5/8 x 14 3/4 in.) Original IAD Object: 8 1/4" wide; 4" high. Medium: watercolor, graphite, and colored pencil on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Archie Thompson.The coins and medals shown here were minted during the siege of Paris of 1590. The figure is Charles X of Bourbon. He was a cardinal and the Catholic League considered him the lawful king of France after the assassination of Henri III by the Dominican friar Jacques Clement. The Catholic League named him Charles X in Paris in Parliament in 1589.Randolph F Miller, Bed, Burl Walnut, c 1939 Bed, Burl WalnutInformation board with photos and descriptions of exhibited objects; Johannes Schiotling.two Tobacco Pots and a Toromanis exhibition.The 'Victorian' porcelain-lined roll-rim bath. Plate 1085-G and Plate 995-G.. text. Illustrations, Advertisements, Catalogs. 1877 - 1893. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Plumbing , Equipment and supplies , CatalogsTestimonials presented to the Right Hon. Thomas Milner Gibson, M.P., by the Association for the Abolition of the Taxes on Knowledge, 1862. 'Mr. Milner Gibson's distinguished services in connection with the great and now happily successful movement for the repeal of the taxes on knowledge were celebrated on Tuesday week by a public breakfast and the presentation of a splendid testimonial...it consists of a handsome centrepiece, after a design by Flaxman, and two large and graceful seven-light candelabra, after a design suggested by the late Sir C. Barry. The centrepiece and candelabra are ofBerlin, Rückwardt, Hermann, Silverwork, Cashmere, Silverware from Cashmere, in the courtyard of the Museum of Art in Berlin, recto - printed, This print is part of a cover with 21 prints and 1 text sheet., photomechanical print, photographs, photographically illustrated books, Table XI., Format IV., No. 2412., Photographische Aufnahme und Lichtdruck von HERMANN RÜCKWARDT, Königl. Hof-Photographer, Berlin SW.(11, ) Dessauerstr. 4., height 264 mm, width 327 mm, German, 1845 - 1919, photographer, 1884 - 1884, paper, collotype, photoprint, cliché makerCabinet decorated with metal, from the collection of Christopher Beckett Denison, Anonymous, c. 1880 - in or before 1885 photomechanical print paper ornamental cupboard (+ wood and other phytogenic material)Designs for Chests of Drawers. Artist: Charles Hindley and Sons (British, London 1841-1917 London). Dimensions: sheet: 10 11/16 x 14 5/16 in. (27.2 x 36.4 cm). Date: 1841-84. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Author: Charles Hindley and Sons.Brown decorations on Hussar armor from the 17th century in the collections of the Krasian Arrangements in Warsaw - front views; Frania, Zygmunt (1882-Post 1932); 1919 (1919-00-00-1919-00-00);Objects from Chittagong from the collection of Emil Riebeck, in the courtyard of the Kunstwerbemuseum in Berlin, Hermann Rückwardt, 1884 photomechanical print This print is part of a cover with 21 prints and 1 text sheet. Artificial vertebral museum berlin paper collotype permanent exhibition, museum. container made of plant material other than wood: basket Artificial museumArticles of China.. William Henry Fox Talbot (English, 1800 - 1877)Thirty tobacco-pipes from various countries of the world. Wood engraving, c. 1873, after J. T. Balcomb.Mand met Sinterklaascadeaus, unknown, c. 1890 - c. 1940 drawing On a table is a wicker basket that is covered with a cloth. There is a child in the basket who peaks out between the cloth and the edge of the basket. Sinterklaas gifts, sweets and a roe are around the basket. paper. India ink (ink). pencil pen festivities on St. Nicholas (Eve) (December 5). container made of plant material other than wood: basketStill life with stereoscope and photos; Artistic Group ..Anonymous. "Swedish furniture". Albumin paper draw. 1870-1880. Paris, house of Victor Hugo. 200671-9Two Knife Heften, Michiel Le Blon, 1597 - 1656 print On each leaf from this series there are two symmetrical knife lives with a bead at the top. The lifts are decorated with tenders between which two birds are located. Amsterdam (possibly) paper etching table-knifeCoffin, urn and epitaph of Catherine Legrain at the convent of the English ladiesLyman Young, Ankle Band or Garters, c 1937 Ankle Band or GartersEngraving depicting a navigator's barrow. Dated 19th centuryStudy of a wheel lock Pistol, 1840-50. William Holman Hunt .Order of the Crown of Oak, Luxembourg, from the World's Decorations series (N44) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes. Dimensions: Sheet: 2 7/8 x 3 1/4 in. (7.3 x 8.3 cm). Lithographer: Lindner, Eddy & Claus (American, New York). Publisher: Issued by Allen & Ginter (American, Richmond, Virginia). Date: 1890.Trade cards from the "World's Decorations" series (N44), issued in 1890 in a numbered set of 50 cards to promote Allen & Ginter brand cigarettes. Series N44 reproduces the cards from N30 in a larger size. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Drawing, Design for Oval Writing Table with Blotter and Letter Opener Atop; Designed by A.N. Davenport Co.; pen and black ink, graphite on thin cream paper; 15.2 x 22.2 cm (6 x 8 3/4 in. )Historical drawing, a hurdy-gurdy, an old stringed instrumentOld oven in a bakery, Maria Vos, 1834 - 1906 drawing paper. chalk brush shop, store. bread, loafDecorated cannon with cannonballs at the Kremlin in Moscow; Souvenir de Moscou. Grand Canon Au Kremlin .. Part of a French amateur album with photos of France, Algeria, Palmyra, the 1900 world exhibition and of famous Frenchs.Grover & Banker Sewing Machine Co, SewingToy Bank. Dated: 1935/1942. Dimensions: overall: 55.7 x 40.8 cm (21 15/16 x 16 1/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 5" square; 7" high. Medium: watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Kurt Melzer.Silver ceremonial goblet, Eduard Isaac Asser, 1850.The 'Victorian' porcelain-lined roll-rim bath, Plates 1085-G and 995-G, issued between 1877 and 1893 by J.L. Mott Iron Works. Locations associated with the publisher include 88 & 90 Beekman Street, N.Y., and 311 & 313 Wabash Avenue, Chicago. The item is part of plumbing equipment and supplies catalogsEmblem, flowers, ornaments, globe, historical illustration from 1897, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South AmericaUtensils used in the manufacture of pewter. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.Versailles, Vase Made 1905 France. Albumen print . Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget