EditorialFish fork, Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818, Silver, Fish fork engraved on both handle and prongs. On prongs: abstract and floral pattern; handle decorated with pagoda and trees in landscape; terminal with scall...
EditorialCollar, Medium: linen Technique: bobbin motifs with needle lace ground (the needle lace ground is loop & twist with loop & twist return), Lace made of bobbin motifs on needlepoint ground. Design shows floral swags (roses, buds and leaves) above a scall...
EditorialKnife, Steel, tortoise-shell, silver, wood, Blade has straight upper edge, tapering towards the point. Drop bolster, handle flaring towards the end, decorated on front and back with tortoise- shell, inlaid with silver decorative pattern: scrolls, scall...
EditorialDesign for Embroidery of a Lower Front Part of an Overskirt of the 'Fabrique de St. Ruf', Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, Graphite, brush and gouache on paper, A fantastical flower bough rises in a zigzag scheme. Lower festoons hang from it. Scall...
EditorialCrochet lace collar with round spiral scallops, Natural colored Irish crochet lace. Strip-shaped round model, 2/3 of a circle. Two rows of pouches, slightly curved rectangles in a diamond-shaped network with picots. Finished on three sides with a scall...
EditorialBarrel-shaped tankard and cover with flowering plants in panels, Barrel-shaped porcelain crucible with flat lid with a brass hinge and c-shaped ear, painted on the glaze in blue, red, green, yellow, eggplant and black. On the wall four elongated, scall...