EditorialPolished axe-head, ca. 1800 BCE The Neolithic period is characterized by the advent of ground and polished axes and adze heads. Polishing the stone tool by grinding a fine abrasive against it gave the axe a smoother cutting edge and greater strength. P...
EditorialMan Polishing a Boot. Dated: 1882. Dimensions: overall: 48.9 x 28 cm (19 1/4 x 11 in.). Medium: black chalk, graphite, and gray wash, heightened with white on wove paper.
EditorialFlint hunting rifle, The lock is engraved with edges and lofwork, the lock plate is signed. Polished barrel with a silver visor grain in the shape of a crawling dog, carved in relief with leafy tendrils, engraved on the back with asymmetrical leafy ten...
EditorialAgate Men?seki (title on object) A series with horses (series title) Umazukushi (series title on object), In a lacquer pot filled with small stones are two branches of red coral. On the ground next to it, a rough and a polished piece of agate. With thr...
EditorialHorse money Komahikizeni (title on object) A series with horses (series title) Umazukushi (series title on object), Red-white porcelain pot on a lacquer dish, next to it a bunch of keys. The beans in the foreground refer to the Setsubon party, where be...
EditorialA horse amulet Mayoke (title on object) A series with horses (series title) Umazukushi (series title on object), A porcelain pot with a bonzai pine and a spring anemone, stands next to a towel rack. In the foreground a water bowl and lacquer jug. The a...
EditorialHarugoma hobby horse (series title on object) A series with horses (series title) Umazukushi (series title on object), Children's toys, including a hobby horse, and a toy bird, on a tray of lacquerware. Dancing with a hobby horse is one of the performa...
EditorialTemple visit during the Hatsuuma festival Hatsuuma mairi (title on object) A series with horses (series title) Umazukushi (series title on object), A still life with a puppet in the shape of a fox that performs 'spring horse dance'. Furthermore, there ...
EditorialWine quality tasters from the early 17th century (top), and scenes from a painting of a doll's house showing a woman with a naked child with water vessels, and a servant polishing leg armour. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's "Costumes, Artworks ...
EditorialPolished axe-head, ca. 1800 BCE The Neolithic period is characterized by the advent of ground and polished axes and adze heads. Polishing the stone tool by grinding a fine abrasive against it gave the axe a smoother cutting edge and greater strength. P...
EditorialA group of friends listen to loud music while polishing their cars in central Tiraspol, in the breakaway region of Transnistria, May 5, 2022. (Cristian Movila/The New York Times)
EditorialA geisha leans on the box of her shamisen, A geisha reads a letter by candlelight, while she leans against the chest containing her shamisen (stringed instrument). A willow can be seen in the garden through the paper (shoji) windows. The poem on the wa...
Editorial'Shoe black'. A man and woman polishing shoes in a street. Rowlandson's characteristic Sketches of the Lower Orders, intended as a companion to the New Picture of London: consisting of fifty-four plates ... coloured. London, 1820. Source: C.58.cc.1.(2).
EditorialBox. Steel, bronze; polishing, chasing, faceting, carving, silver damascening, gilding. Russia, Tula. Second half of the 18th century. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.
EditorialLacquered toilet box, Han dynasty, c206 BC-c220. This box is painted with cloud scrolls and inlaid with silver. Fantastic heavenly creatures are visible among the lines of the painted scrolls. The manufacture of lacquer pieces required several distinct...