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Historical Locks and Designs

A collection of historical lock and design illustrations showcasing ornate craftsmanship, including a sixteenth-century lock, a candlestick, and lamp designs.

Design for a Silver Candl, Pen and brown ink, brown wash, black chalk Support: white laid paper, joined at center, Rome, Italy, Italy and Germany, 1725-40, metalwork, Drawing, Drawing
Design for a Silver Candl, Pen and brown ink, brown wash, black chalk Support: white laid paper, joined at center, Rome, Italy, Italy and Germany, 1725-40, metalwork, Drawing, Drawing
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Key lock; Serrure 1500. A sixteenth-century lock, front and side view.Scale and book on a chair. Leaf 27 Verso from a sketchbook with 36 sheets.Design for a Silver Candl, Pen and brown ink, brown wash, black chalk Support: white laid paper, joined at center, Rome, Italy, Italy and Germany, 1725-40, metalwork, Drawing, DrawingWall-mounted Lamp Design ca. 1885 Attributed to Richardson Ellson & Co.. Wall-mounted Lamp Design 386745Simon Weiss, Silver Tankard, c 1936 Silver TankardJohn Dana, Candlestick, c 1938 CandlestickCover Books, c. 1543 - c. 1553 Page 12 Recto, loose -set page from an album consisting of a band with two blades, a bract and seventeen separately set up sheets. parchment (animal material). ink pen / brush mug, beaker, gobletLamp. Dated: c. 1938. Dimensions: overall: 35.9 x 24.5 cm (14 1/8 x 9 5/8 in.) Original IAD Object: 10 3/4" high; 1 1/4" wide. Medium: watercolor and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Charles Caseau.The sideboard from the end of the 18th century from the collection of Karol Malczewski in Warsaw in 1918 - front view on a scale of 1:10; Sztolcman, Władysław Roman (1873-1950); 1918-1919 (1918-00-00-1919-00-00);Drawing, Design for Glass-Front Cabinet 'A'; Designed by A.N. Davenport Co.; graphite on thin cream paper; 27.3 x 21.3 cm (10 3/4 x 8 3/8 in. )Vase with ears in the form of a mermaid, Benigno Bossi, After Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, 1764 Vase with short belly and long wide neck. The ears have the shape of a mermaid, standing on an acanthus leaf. Belly and neck are separated by an ornament edge with dolphins. A handle on the belly. The vase is on a wall. No. 27 from series of 31. print is part of an album. Printed recto at the top right: 27. paper etching vase ~ ornament. mermanSmall post with ring attached. Unknown makerDiebitsch Carl von (1819-1869), standing candlestick, Cairo. () (Without Dat.): View of a standing lamp, scale bar. Pencil on cardboard, 45.9 x 29.7 cm (including scan edges) Diebitsch Carl von (1819-1869): LampeSchick Carl, Cup in the style of the 16th and 17th centuries (without a year): View. Ink on cardboard, 32.6 x 14.8 cm (including scan edges)Michael Fenga, Silver Bowl, c 1936 Silver BowlA pencil sketch by Emerich Alexius Swoboda from 1877 depicting a hand mirror, showing structural form, reflective surface, and ornamental details.Designs for Loo-Tables 1835-1900 Robert William Hume British. Designs for Loo-Tables 391726Tower of cabins. Leaf 2 recto from a sketchbook with 57 sheets.Henry Meyers, Pewter Stamp, c 1937 Pewter StampTwo Designs for Pendants with Diamonds, c. 1864 - c. 1894 Paris paper. watercolor (paint). ink. deck paint penBoat and a wreck of a boat in a yard. In the background a house and a yard bounded by a fence. Leaf 45 Recto from a sketchbook with 65 sheets.Checklery in the groomed, from Saint -Morien, After Richard de Lalonde, 1784 - 1785 print On the left a commode with a folding part, decorated with a diamond pattern and a Mercury Staff. On the right a toilet table with three drawers, a folding part, a jug, bottles and books. Paris paper etching ornamental cupboard. table. making toiletCharles Cullen, Pewter Porringer, 1935 1942 Pewter PorringerDesigns of Bolts and a Hinge, Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780-96, Pen and ink, brush and wash on paper, Upper bolt in shape of an octagonal escutcheon with rinceaux decor; lower bolt, same except for curved escutcheon; center, hinge has six holes., France, ca. 1790, hardware, Drawing, DrawingChairs and stool, anonymous, c. 1881 - in or before 1889 photomechanical print Antwerp paper collotype / photolithography seating furnitureDoor frame with vases; Door Pictures. Door frame with rocaille ornaments, leaf motifs, two putti, a vase with flowers left and a vase upstairs. Publisher number 298.Small ornament, candlestick, clock and vase. The four objects are only partially depicted. The candlestick consists of a herme that carries a candle holder with two arms on his head.Ludmilla Calderon, Silver Glass Holder, 1935 1942 Silver Glass HolderOrnament designs, c. 1897 - c. 1898 Page 11 Recto from a sketchbook with 29 sheets. paper. pencil ornaments ~ artCupboard with two doors ornamented with abstract patterns, c. 1875 - c. 1900 photograph Europe cardboard. photographic support gelatin silver print cupboard. ornament ~ geometric motifs EuropeM Rosenshield von Paulin, Stool, 1936 StoolDesign for toilet table with mirror, anonymous, c. 1825 - c. 1839 drawing Toilet table with marble top and mirror with swan heads on both sides, chassis in the form of a trumeau. The leaf on the back numbered: 12, the opposite sheet with information about the furniture depicted: 12 bis. Part of an album with 80 sheets with drawings and a print of veneered and lacquered furniture, as well as seating furniture. Paris (possibly) paper. ink. watercolor (paint). pencil pen / brush furniture for special use (+ wood and other phytogenic material). table. mirrorDrawing, Design for Small Rectangular Table #2 with Leaf Motifs; Designed by A.N. Davenport Co.James McLellan, Wrought Iron Banister Bracket, c 1937 Wrought Iron Banister BracketThree vases; 35th Cahier LL Cahier de Vases, Fontaines et Tombeaux; Iie Volume de l'oeuvre de J. Ch. Delafosse (...). Three ornamented vases, left with ramskers, in the middle with buckraniums and right with putti.Desk and Bookcase, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II. Artist: Thomas Chippendale (British, baptised Otley, West Yorkshire 1718-1779 London). Dimensions: sheet: 12 11/16 x 7 7/8 in. (32.2 x 20.1 cm). Published in: London. Date: 1753.Preparatory drawing for Thomas Chippendale's 'Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director'. Published in reverse as plate LXXXIII in the 1754 and 1755 editions, not reprinted in the 1762 edition. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Three elongated tables; Differents PourTricts De Menuiseri (...); Differents Pourtraits the Menuiserie. The set of no title and without leaf 16. The lower table is extendable. The blades to be pulled out are on legs with wheels. Leaf 7 of 15 numbered sheets + title sheet from a series of 16.Edward Jewett, Folding Bed, c 1937 Folding BedKidney-shaped table. Kidney-shaped table with two drawers in the front and a sheet between the three legs, with alternative solutions for the marquetric pattern of the top. Size indication along the bottom.Designs for a decorative object. Possibly a lamp. Leaf 24 Recto from a sketchbook with 30 sheets.Silver Gilt Standing Cup and Cover. Charles Thurston Thompson (English, 1816 - 1868)Candlesticks and knives, the Saint-Morien ,, After Richard de Lalonde, 1789 print Three ornamented candlesticks in the middle and two ornamented table knives on the left and right. Paris paper etching / engraving chandelier, candelabrum. table-knifeChair, Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746-1809, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, Square-backed chair with octagonal cushion and volutes on crest rail., Italy, 1780-1790, furniture, Drawing, DrawingWilliam Schmidt, Lantern, 1935 1942 LanternWedding tripod or Aldobrandine 1, consular chair in the Vatican Museum 2, and libation ewer with griffins and paten or plate in the Capitoline Museum 3. Copperplate engraving by Domenico Pronti from his own New Collection Representing Religious, Civil and Military Costumes of the Ancient Egyptians, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans, Nuova Raccolta Rappresentante I Costumi Religiosi Civili e Militari, Rome, 1805.Salvatore Borrazzo, Pa German Flatiron Holder, c 1938 Pa. German Flatiron HolderCandle Mold. Dated: c. 1940. Dimensions: overall: 34.2 x 26.1 cm (13 7/16 x 10 1/4 in.) Original IAD Object: 11 1/2" high; 6" wide; 3 1/4" deep. Medium: watercolor and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Edward Bashaw.Plate 2 of the Recueil d' ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique..., Gaspard Grollier de Seviere II, French, 1677 - 1745, Etienne Joseph Daudet, French, 1672 - 1730, Engraving on white laid paper, Three mechanical objects, numbered 4, 5, and 6. The base of figure 4 is similar in design to figure 2 of Plate 1. The object, a solid ball inside a pierced one, is similar to one in figure 3, Plate 1. Figure 5 looks as if it may be fitted inside figure 6. Both are cylindrical in shape, figure 6 with a round bulge space at the bottom. These devices are pointed like tops; figure 4 looks as if it were meant to spin in some manner., France, 1732, Print, PrintThree Sheets with Designs for Earrings, anonymous, c. 1750 - c. 1780 drawing Designs of nine earrings or broches with pearls, bows and floral motifs, with numbering 102 to 110. France (possibly) paper. ink pen ear-rings. brooch, agraffe, claspTwo ornamental edges, two side tables and a cupboard; Designs for religious and profane objects; Invenzioni Various Di Mobili Ed Utensili Sacri E profani; Invenzioni Various Di Mobili Ed Utensili Sacri E profani per USI Comuni della Vita. Print is part of an album.Harry Mann Waddell, Cider Press, c 1940 Cider PressSanctuary Table. Dated: 1936. Dimensions: overall: 33.1 x 25.7 cm (13 1/16 x 10 1/8 in.) Original IAD Object: 29 1/8"long; 17 7/8"wide x 23 7/8 high. Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Dayton Brown.Tafel met servies, anonymous, after Jean François Forty, in or after 1775 print An ornamented table on three goat legs. On top are a jug and crockery. France paper etching table. laid table: table-ware, table-decoration, etc.Vase and cartouche; (...) Nouveaux Vases Antiques. An ornamented vase, including a cartouche with leaves and the serene title.Tomb with three vases; U Tombeau antique; Iie Volume de l'oeuvre de J. Ch. Delafosse (...). A tomb with three vases, garlands and a cloth.Two chairs; Chaise meublée; Ve Cahier De Meubles. Front and top views of two seats with leaf motifs. On the left a chair with a square backrest, right with a semicircular backrest and armrests.Mildred Ford, Flat Iron Holder, c 1938 Flat Iron HolderThree small motifs and a large motif of leaf raft and flowers; Through brown silver-smids work. Leaf from second series of 6 sheets with examples of ornaments for silversmiths.Rex F Bush, Candle Stand, c 1938 Candle StandConsole table with chest of drawers, Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746-1809, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper, The table is supported by fluted parts rising from calices and ending in masks from which festoons hang. The front of the frame shows an ovoidal medallion between two festoons. The chest of drawers is supported by calices and reaches to the frame of the table. Two drawers are indicated by framed oblongs. Colored background., Rome, Italy, 1746-1809, furniture, Drawing, DrawingDrawing, Design in Plan and Elevation for Mahogany Sideboard on Casters; Designed by A.N. Davenport Co.; graphite on thin cream paper; 24.8 x 21.6 cm (9 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. )Wash stand with mirror, 1805 - 1806, by Thomas Sheraton (1751-1806)., London, England. Furniture, cabinetwork, engravings, plates colored by hand., 39 x 25 cmImage of products from the Utrecht Smedengilde: A: door knocker of a house on the Oudegracht, coming out in the Strosteg, b: lock plate of a door in the Dom with the presumably earring key, c. Slot plate of the main entrance of the Beijerskameren on Lange Nieuwstraat, D. Handle of a door in the Dom, e. handle of a pull bell on and house on the begijnehof.n.b. The street name Begijnehof was later changed to Wijde Begijnestraat.Design for a bowl on foot with two boys like ears, c. 1867 Paris paper. deck paint. pencil. ink pen / brush goblet footPa. German Flat-iron Stand. Dated: c. 1942. Dimensions: overall: 23 x 28 cm (9 1/16 x 11 in.) Original IAD Object: 11" long; 5 1/2" wide. Medium: watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Amos C. Brinton.Vase on pedestal with face; Vases. A vase with two ears and garlands on a pedestal with a woman face and garlands. At the bottom of the pedestal an ornamented can, a helmet, a coat of arms, an arrow sleeve, coins and two pigeons. Publisher number LIV.Sofa. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 22.7 x 29.2 cm (8 15/16 x 11 1/2 in.). Medium: colored pencil, graphite, and gouache on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Herman Bader.Ferdinand Cartier, Console Table, c 1953 Console TableDesigns for hanging lamps, c. 1905 - c. 1906 Page 5 Recto from a sketchbook with 30 sheets. paper. pencil lighting; lampsFive weapons. Five performances on an album magazine. The first three with the arms of the Amsterdam family Bicker: a fertilized shield with a crossbar in the first and last 15 minutes and three helmet sticks above each other in the second and third quarter. This is combined with a weapon with two crossed sodes and an image of a moor in the first performance. The fourth weapon is related to the Van Swieten family: three violins with the sticks down. Above and under a dog. The fifth weapon shows a shield with two trees and a third tree as a helmet sign. Below a grape roof. The prints are part of an album.Two pedestals with garlands; Piedestal pour figure debout, pour figure assise; Footpoints; 38th Cahier.twee pedestals with garlands, under with oval medallion. Print number 226.Mildred Ford, Lantern, c 1937 LanternTwo pendants with sundial, Anonymous, 1581 print Leaf with two pendants with a sundial at the top. The right hanger is provided with a dial. No. 10 from series of 10 sheets with fronts of pendants. Precious stones in settlements of grotesken and rolling work. Netherlands (possibly) paper engraving During, Trinket, 'charm'. SundialVera Van Voris, Chair, c 1937 ChairRoman jewellery.. Drawings, Design drawings. 1880 - 1883. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Patterns (Design elements), Decoration and ornament, Silverwork, Victorian, Goldwork, Jewelry, Ancient, Jewelry , RomeSydney Roberts, Trivet, c 1941 TrivetDesign for Three Brooches, Pen and ink, brush and sepia on paper, Above at left, an escutcheon with a d drapery festoon and a diamond in the center. At right, an octagonal diamond framed by volutes with pearls. In the center, a fleur-de-lys with a hanging drop., Italy, 1825-50, jewelry, Drawing, DrawingPewter Porringer. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 28.3 x 22.7 cm (11 1/8 x 8 15/16 in.). Medium: graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Charles Cullen.Compas, Isaac Weissenbruch, 1836 - 1912 print Netherlands paper compassRoberta Elvis, Bishop Hill Table, 1936 Bishop Hill: TableExcavated Roman handles, door knobs and locks; Objects found in a Roman grave in Obbicht. The objects are numbered. A handle is decorated with fucks. A side view of two handles is also shown. Another handle is decorated with a lion's head.Doll Chair. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 29.9 x 23.3 cm (11 3/4 x 9 3/16 in.). Medium: pen and ink on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Julie C. Brush.Vincent P Rosel and Gordon Saltar, Empire Chair, c 1937 Empire ChairDesigns for Door Hardware ca. 1775-85 Anonymous, French, 18th century French. Designs for Door Hardware 344264Plateau with round holders; Empire objects. Design for a plateau with handle and two round openwork holders. Above four round rings, possibly napkin rings, decorated with grape vines and horns of excect. All objects are numbered.Cup Plates. Dated: 1935/1942. Dimensions: overall: 29.1 x 29.2 cm (11 7/16 x 11 1/2 in.). Medium: watercolor and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Paul Ward.Table. Dated: 1935/1942. Medium: graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Bernard Gussow.Punch bowl in silver.. Drawings, Design drawings. 1880 - 1883. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Patterns (Design elements), Decoration and ornament, Silverwork, Victorian, Goldwork, Punch bowlsSofa (Empire). Dated: 1936. Dimensions: overall: 23.1 x 29 cm (9 1/8 x 11 7/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 34 1/2"high; 70"long; 30"deep. Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, gouache, and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: American 20th Century.Filippo Porreca, Pa German Flat iron Holder, c 1938 Pa. German Flat-iron HolderTable, Drop-leaf. Dated: 1940. Dimensions: overall: 35.6 x 24.9 cm (14 x 9 13/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 28"high; 44"wide. See data sheet for details.. Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, pen and ink, and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Edith Towner.Hilt with weapon trophies; Fertilized for Dagen.The button is decorated with three mascarons. One of 3 sheets. The decoration consisting of Arabesken, grotesken, weapent trophies and mascarons, is white on a black fond.Butterfly Table. Dated: c. 1940. Dimensions: overall: 29.8 x 22.8 cm (11 3/4 x 9 in.). Medium: watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Charles Squires.Rand with a vase in the middle, anonymous, after Paul Birckenhultz, 1571 - 1639 print In the middle a vase with flowers between two insects. One of 6 partially numbered sheets. Passionate copies to the prints of the series described under Orn Cat I-317. Germany (possibly) paper engravingHugh Clarke, Candle Mold, c 1936 Candle MoldHugh Clarke, Wallet, c 1936 WalletRobert Stewart, Carvings of a Sofa, c 1937 Carvings of a SofaArdella Watkins, Pewter Tobacco Jar, c 1941 Pewter Tobacco JarRichard Taylor, Farm Lantern, c 1940 Farm LanternA mahogany table with brown fittings from the 18th century from the collection of Helena Karska in Warsaw in 1916 - views from the front and side and the top in advance in a 1: 5 scale; Kotarbiński, Mieczysław (1890-1943); 1916 (not after 9.08.1916) (1916-00-00-1916-00-00);