Antique Planer

Subtle tiered elements and sharp transitions between planes give the object a strong sculptural presence, while the contrast between the glossy glaze and gilded edges adds visual dep...

The vertical fluting accentuates its slenderness, while the projecting shelves rhythmically articulate the silhouette through a succession of horizontal planes. The broad base, with ...

The composition is structured through a succession of strongly defined planes of color, leading the eye from the deep green fields of the foreground toward the ochre and rust-colored...

In 1886, Gauguin and Bernard joined the existing artists’ colony in Pont-Aven, and began work to develop a Synthetic style of painting characterized by flattened perspectives, planes...

The demanding cut decoration transforms the heavy clear crystal into a luminous construction of planes, recesses and reflections. Although substantial in material, the vase retains a...

Objects: Vases, ashtrays, lighters, letter openers, and miniature models of tanks or planes. Who Made It Soldiers: Created items during quiet rest periods to pass the time, relieve s...

The Red Languedoc marble, sourced from Louis XVI’s private quarry, shows rich veining and fossilization, with an ogee carved edge with rounded corners, setting a beautifully colored ...

Fishermen work a net over a stone quay in the shadowed foreground while small masted boats lie hauled up on the sand, and behind them a village of white and ochre houses crowds the s...

Objects: Vases, ashtrays, lighters, letter openers, and miniature models of tanks or planes. Who Made It Soldiers: Created items during quiet rest periods to pass the time, relieve s...

A master artisan transformed the ancient curved earthenware into a striking scholar's inkstone featuring a central circular grinding plane flanked by two crescent-shaped ink reservoi...

The scene presents a woman and young child moving through a snow-covered landscape at dusk, the figures placed close to the picture plane with a distant traveler receding along the s...

The buildings, too, are laid in as flat planes of unmodelled apricot and cream. This is a painter working in front of the motif with real speed and no interest in finish, and the fre...

His subject, Modern Life and Inventions, the metro, buses, airships and planes, was not accepted. His first and only ambition was to depict everyday inventions and recent progress by...

Buildings, coastlines and landscapes were often organized through clear contours and carefully balanced planes rather than dissolved into atmospheric impression.

Skilfully employing the colour palette and the nuances of light and shadow, the artist creates the illusion of a light atmospheric haze enveloping the distant planes, which lends the...

At the center lies an elongated diamond medallion composed of overlapping translucent planes, echoing the cubist influence that was pervasive in French design at the time.

A dragonfly rests in relief near one edge of the surface, its wings and body raised above the engraved floral and foliage motifs spread across the bronze plane. Beneath the top, thre...

The armrests extend as continuous horizontal planes, reinforcing the linear composition of the frame.

Recessed into the back plane of this writing leaf is a circular cutout designed to hold a glass inkwell, positioned right next to a deeply scooped, elongated pen and pencil tray, res...

The artist constructs the space in depth based on parallel planes, following the Northern European landscape tradition that she knew so well.

The treatment of the landscape is characteristic of this period: the mountains are reduced to large, almost abstract masses of color, while successive planes recede into a slightly h...

The combination of polished planes, subtle texturing, and crisp geometric detailing reflects the high level of craftsmanship associated with luxury European barware of the period.

The headboard and footboard are composed of broad oak planes framed by substantial uprights, their surfaces enriched with deeply carved panels of flowing spirals, undulating waves, a...

A turquoise‑blue sculptural ceramic vase by Robert Lallemant, defined by its sharply folded planes, geometric silhouette, and architectural presence.

Instead of opening a window onto deep space, he tips the fields upward toward the picture plane. The land becomes an almost continuous surface across which fences, furrows, paths and...

Particularly notable is the balance between figuration and abstraction: the figures remain legible yet are reduced to essential volumes, with simplified facial planes and rhythmic co...

Particularly notable is the balance between figuration and abstraction: the figures remain legible yet are reduced to essential volumes, with simplified facial planes and rhythmic co...

Elements that would later become fundamental to Cézanne's mature landscapes are already apparent: buildings function as geometric masses; trees establish vertical structural accents;...

It is worked in relief on two planes, and is framed by a smooth rectangular profile with rounded corners.

A large tree dominates the composition, its broad, sweeping branches extending gracefully across the picture plane and framing the distant horizon. Reflections of the pale evening sk...

The nose is very prominent, completely flat, and with a curved profile, and the mouth stands out for its expression: open, deeply hollow, and framed by long nasolabial furrows worked...

Original vintage early aviation travel poster advertising Imperial Airways featuring an Armstrong Whitworth Argosy biplane on the tarmac of Croydon Airport in London showing the pilo...

Description: Front panel from the chest of a Roman sarcophagus, carved in marble in relief, with the figures projecting against a recessed background while remaining within the over...

This typology is characterized by the construction of the face in two planes, which converge in the nose, a large groove in the forehead, the excavated eyes and the flat back, all el...

The lower two-thirds of the picture plane is given over to a shallow, boulder-strewn riverbed in the foreground, which opens into calmer, turquoise-toned water curving toward a bend ...

The motif is treated with remarkable economy, rather than filling the scene with detail, Christensen relies on broad planes, atmospheric color and rapidly applied brushwork to convey...

In a room at the Metropolitan Museum, with snakes with jaguar heads, an anatomical scheme very similar to that of the piece under study is observed, easily visible given that it is a...

The design achieves remarkable symmetry through its balanced asymmetry, with the stepped geometric planes repeating seamlessly to create a sense of formal ornamentation appropriate t...

An asymmetrical composition of interlocking planes in primary colors, the design looks as starkly modern today as it did when it was first designed.

Traditionally, these ornate panels adorned royal thrones or significant altars, symbolizing power, divinity, and the passage between the earthly realm and the spiritual plane. The el...

Animals, antlers, legs, foliage and hunting equipment overlap across numerous spatial planes. When viewed from the side, the extraordinary 14 cm depth becomes particularly apparent, ...

In this workplace morale poster from the early twentieth century, a lone figure pushes through deep snow against driving wind, rendered in the bold flat planes of American lithograph...

The works under consideration share many details with many others by the master, such as the mountain ranges that dissolve into the background, the trees placed in the foreground to ...

The stepped profile of the sides — receding in three planes from front to back — is a refined restatement of the Art Deco skyscraper motif, rendered here in warm wood tones rather th...

Rendered with Papart’s signature Cubist-inspired planes and bold color contrasts, the work features a stylized New York taxi set against a dynamic urban composition.

Without surrounding frames, the doors are perceived as simple planes rather than assembled components, allowing the natural beauty of the wood to become the focal point.

His refined sense of composition allows him to construct a delicate interplay of lines and planes of color that suggest light and shadow in a completely autonomous and, therefore, di...

When lit, the satin glass produces a soft, even glow that highlights the sculpted planes while preventing glare, making the pair suitable for both ambient and decorative lighting.

Rock crystal has been chosen for centuries for its beautiful translucency, its multiple planes, and the fascination of its colours, all of which present themselves differently as lig...

Space is organized through successive planes, like traditional Flemish landscapes, and depth is constructed through chromatic contrast, alternating infinitely nuanced warm and cool t...

With its strong geometry, layered planes and carefully constructed proportions, the piece reads as a small architectural structure.

Nature thus becomes, in a sense, a plane. This development in Hoch’s work was not sudden but arose from his engagement with graphic art. ________________________________________ In 1...

The lack of a central medallion allows the intricate details to flow seamlessly across the entire plane, defining it as a masterful allover design.

This poster perfectly reflects that approach through its use of flat colour planes, stylised forms and carefully balanced proportions.

Every detail of the surroundings is superfluous; it is the colors that construct the space, in the Cubist manner. Against the colored planes of the wall, the table, and the window em...

The field of the rug is adorned with a fascinating fragmented lattice pattern-composed of overlapping diagonal and angular planes in varying earthy tones of taupe, camel, cinnamon, a...

The garden appears close to the picture plane, as though it were a tapestry or folding screen.

His compositions often compress spatial depth, so that a patterned dress, a parasol, and a flowering background occupy nearly the same visual plane. Art historian William H. Gerdts o...

Conveying the tension between the fluid forms of nature and the structures of art, he imposed order on his landscapes and reinforced his picture planes, while conveying the character...

Against this firm landform, Rix sets a restless sea built from interlocking planes of blue-gray and green-gray, enlivened by broken, impasto touches of foam that describe the turbule...