Antique Lathes

19th century fruitwood mortar and pestle. Lathe work, remnants of paint or dark stain. Original pestle included.

Agate ware’s marbling, such as can be seen on this vase, does not come from the glaze: multi-colored clays were kneaded together and, after throwing and turning the unfired clay on a...

Very fine 18th Century mahogany dish top tripod table by Joseph Gengenbach, known as Canabas, circa 1790, the lathe turned top with dished edge, over very simple column base, standin...

The bowls are unusually thin for bronze, with the lathe lines still visible to the undersides.

Their perfect symmetry and sculpted elements result from this technique: the individual wooden spindles of the piece were made by shaping them with chisels and gouges while they were...

Usually carved from a single block of wood, the sculpture is worked horizontally, placed on a large lathe so that the carver can turn it as he wishes.

As with the candlesticks in the Wallace Collection, the present pair can be dated to the mid-nineteenth century by their construction and by the lathe-turning of the castings making ...

The warm, highly figured walnut is expertly lathe-turned into a sweeping architectural form that references 19th-century European classicism while remaining strikingly modern in silh...