Antique Inventions

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

By the time they closed shop Elgin had produced over 60 million watches and left a legacy of excellence and inventions as well.

By the time they closed shop Elgin had produced over 60 million watches and left a legacy of excellence and inventions as well.

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

The interior retains the “Edison” signature, referencing Thomas Edison’s pioneering invention of the phonograph in 1877, the first practical device capable of both recording and repr...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

A stack of books, a gathering of small treasures, or a pair of leafy plants placed across the tiers brings it back to life—an 18th-century invention still performing beautifully in t...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

It was whilst serving in the Artists Rifles that Cooper met Sir Barnes Wallis, best known for his invention the ‘bouncing bomb’, with the two becoming lifelong friends.

It was whilst serving in the Artists Rifles that Cooper met Sir Barnes Wallis, best known for his invention the ‘bouncing bomb’, with the two becoming lifelong friends.

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

This gesture—simple yet highly effective in conveying the need for silence so as not to disturb the child’s sleep—is an invention derived from Michelangelo, and we find it in one of ...

This multifaceted narrative, integrated into the landscape, enriches the meditative dimension of the work while highlighting its kinship with the inventions of Patinir. The attributi...

It was whilst serving in the Artists Rifles that Cooper met Sir Barnes Wallis, best known for his invention the ‘bouncing bomb’, with the two becoming lifelong friends.

Jefferies & Co. was based in Woolwich and was one of the earliest racket manufacturers in England, they are known to have produced the original rackets for Major Wingfield's inve...

Callot’s refined line work and lively invention exemplify his mastery of etching and his influential role in the development of seventeenth-century printmaking.

The Patented Process: Clay, originally an apprentice to the well-known bookbinder and typefounder John Baskerville, took over Baskerville's japanning business in Birmingham and later...

As such, it offers compelling testimony to the enduring vitality and adaptability of Algardi’s invention, as it was reinterpreted for a devout and cultivated audience.

Oil on canvas artwork depicting Salome with the head of Saint John the Baptist. Based on a famous invention by Matthias Stomer (1600-1650), a master of Northern Caravaggism, the comp...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

The saint is shown kneeling, in profile, holding the ointment jar in her hands and wrapped in a wide red mantle that forms the chromatic focus of the composition. The invention deriv...

This evolution led to the creation of museums which, between the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, became ideal venues for showcasing the discoveries emerging from r...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

The material Pinchbeck was the invention of the London watch- and clockmaker Christopher Pinchbeck (1670- 1732).

The relationship between the two works suggests a shared compositional origin, and may point to the existence of a common model or preparatory invention within the artist’s studio pr...

Such reflective figures appear frequently in late Gothic architectural sculpture, where culots, corbels, and consoles provided artists with spaces for narrative and symbolic inventio...

The drawing is based on a famous print depicting the penitent Magdalene in a landscape, engraved by Raphael Sadler around 1583 and based on an invention by the Flemish painter Marten...

Due to the quality of his manufacturing, his name became a by-word amongst British Engineers for engineering excellence and many of his inventions are on display in the Science Museu...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

The slight irregularities in the early wound balls made them quite lively, it was not until the invention of the automatic winding machine by John Gammeter (an engineer at Goodrich) ...

There are no frills, no images—just bold letters shouting a proud claim of invention and heritage. The visual language is industrial, modernist, and uncompromising—designed to be se...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Lantern slides are an early photographic invention from 1850 intended for use with a 'magic lantern' projector.

In the foreground, in the centre, is a group of four figures in two pairs: two women sitting on the ground in mirror image and the other pair standing and talking. This imaginative i...

The iconography is taken from an invention by Bartholomäus Spranger (Antwerp, 1546 - Prague, 1611), a leading exponent of European Mannerism and active at the Habsburg court in Pragu...

These works, in fact, show clear stylistic similarities and similar perspective inventions that can also be found in our scene, namely a peculiar revival of early 18th-century landsc...

Beer’s achievement lies precisely in this balance between formal invention and psychological intensity. He does not dissolve the sitter into abstraction, but rather redefines portrai...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

These works, in fact, show clear stylistic similarities and similar perspective inventions that can also be found in our scene, namely a peculiar revival of early 18th-century landsc...

Of the four angels, therefore, two were made in raw clay … and two with the papier-mâché technique … This type of process, therefore, illustrates the relationships between the sculpt...

Their popularity declined with the invention of photography. The back is numbered 6 14.

The original work, now housed in the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples, was among the most admired inventions of the artist’s Roman maturity. It enjoyed wide circulation through the act...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

These field fillers — each one a small world of geometric invention — reward close inspection and give the rug an inexhaustible visual richness that flat photography cannot fully cap...

It is therefore difficult to formulate a precise attribution, given this extremely prolific and heterogeneous cultural environment: the structure of the composition in fact recalls, ...

It stands as a valuable testament to the virtuosity and spontaneity characteristic of 16th-century Italian drawing, where the graphic act itself becomes the privileged site of invent...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

He gives some tales about the invention of each of the Orders, but he does not give a hard and fast set of canonical rules for the execution of capitals.

In particular, we are looking at a very famous iconographic invention by the painter Abraham Bloemart (c. 1600), which was already popular at the time thanks to an engraving by Jan S...

French school of the 19th century Monks excavate and find ancient relics Oil on canvas Not signed 56 x 46.5 cm (68 x 57.5 cm with the frame) Beautiful period frame in gilded wood Goo...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

The Frantz brothers developed multiple companies with Kirby's inventions, and through them, James Kirby developed a close relationship with the Scott Fetzer manufacturing company who...

The sitter is shown half-length, set before a rocky landscape, a compositional formula that derives ultimately from the portrait inventions of Anthony van Dyck and remained dominant ...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...