Antique Planer

They built instruments for cars, planes, ships and trains as well. Elgin invented the “unbreakable” mainspring and many other technological breakthroughs.

There was a heated debate about cubism, in which the artist broke up the motif into smaller components, sometimes called facets, in order to rebuild it on the flat surface of the pic...

In the foreground, a series of figures have been placed creating various planes and highlighting with their postures and gestures the two figures in the center; a little further to t...

The pink and white pate sur pate is of magnificent quality, perfectly outlining the two subjects in a three dimensional plane. From the veil of the maiden to the mane of the centaur,...

In 1910, he founded the Losques studio, a printing house producing mainly posters.Serving as a bomber during the First World War, his plane, a V-110 Squadron Neighbors, was shot down...

It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs in the axia...

The woods most used in the production of Charles X furniture are maple, ash, plane tree and yew, which literally oust the darker mahogany.

Uniting an intriguing abstract painting with the geometry of interlocking planes and layered strata, this rare ring is powerful work of painterly and sculptural modernism.

This bowl with its large flat planes and its lobed Gothic points is set up on a cut pedestal with a wide flaring base also lobed and cut in a star shapped pattern

One cheese knife with stainless blade, 5 7/8". One cheese plane with stainless blade, 8 1/2". One sugar tong, 4 3/8".

The detailed line-work of the etchings is replaced with masses of black or grey on white, spatial recession is denied, and the images are vertically layered on the picture plane; thi...

Adding to its detail the cabinet's upper section is terminated at the breakfront and ends with quarter columns that are nicely modeled with plane simple capitals and fluting to give ...

Print by engraving on copper plate from the Panckoucke Encyclopédie méthodique, end of the 18th century, volume Marine Planches (more than 1,500 figures dealing with all subjects on ...

A marble version was found in 1849 in the Trastevere district of Rome ( now in Musei Vaticani in Rome) Apoxyomenos is an absolute masterpiece of the Greek Art, an innovative work th...

They built instruments for cars, planes, ships and trains as well. Elgin invented the “unbreakable” mainspring and many other technological breakthroughs.

Having met Dasburg and Marin in Taos, he experimented with multi-point perspective and interlocking planes. By the 1930s he had completely departed from his academic training and exh...

By 1913 de La Fresnaye had found an affinity with Delauney's abstract and colourful 'Orphism', though in his case the flat planes of colour found realisation in figurative scenes and...

Print by engraving on copper plate from the Panckoucke Encyclopédie méthodique, end of the 18th century, volume Marine Planches (more than 1,500 figures dealing with all subjects on ...

Print by engraving on copper plate from the Panckoucke Encyclopédie méthodique, end of the 18th century,volume Marine Planches (more than 1,500 figures dealing with all subjects on t...

Print by engraving on copper plate from the Panckoucke Encyclopédie méthodique, end of the 18th century, volume Marine Planches (more than 1,500 figures dealing with all subjects on ...

The composition is brilliantly executed in the placement of the figure close to the picture plane with the fresh rolling countryside situated behind her.

He explores the unlimited potential of chromatic and tonal scales, visual planes, and volume within a two-dimensional framework.

This framing technique, mimicking the confines of the canvas, is a meta reminder of the confines of the pictorial plane. What lies beyond the picture and window frames?

The composition is densely worked, with fractured lines, tilted planes and interlocking shapes giving the picture a strong sense of rhythm.

URANOGRAPHIA / SYDERUM ET STELLARUM / in Singulis Syderibus conspicuarum / exhibens Delineationem accuratissimam, / qua / ex Observationibus Astronomi plane Singularis / IOHANIS HEV...

This work uses asymmetrical abstract planes to suggest architectonic spaces and incorporates collaged fragments of maps and undecipherable scripts.

As the technique favours flat planes of colour rather than texture and detail, the Swedish poster artists who employed this printing method created bold compositions of geometric sha...

AUSTRIAN SILVER MONEY BOX / PIGGY BANK Biedermeier Late Period / dated 1856 EXCELLENTLY MADE LIDDED MONEY BOX STANDING ON SQUARE PLANE BOTTOM. THE SURFACE IS ACCENTUATED ...

They are pushed forward on the picture plane as if they were on a stage with a simple indication of a horizon line dottee with more flowers.

Formally, it is a sequence of planes, but the two-dimensionality of the motif creates a spatial effect.

During King Charles X Light colored woods, yellow or bleached, such as lemon tree, maple, sycamore, orange tree, plane wood and the delicate gnarl of elm, of ash or Ambon wood were d...

A perfect study in the dynamism of a picture plane and a celebration of the power of line, the composition depicts a lady in her boudoir being attended to by an artisan and her maid.

At its end it is decorated with a simple recessed carving, with a geometric motif on two planes." Size: 10 x 10 x 160 cms. Weight is orientative.       

The sarcophagus form is raised up on boldly carved and dramatic Roman style lion paw feet giving the heavy case a lighter appearance while the flat planes of the sides and top are ha...

First hand accounts tell of King George VI, Montgomery, Eisenhower and Churchill watching the preparations for the D-Day landings from here, First a destroyer made a smoke screen alo...

Together, they form a central vignette that feels both grounded and transcendent, as if suspended within an infinite plane. The open space surrounding this medallion enhances its pre...

The open taupe field is its defining gesture, a vast plane of softened tonal variation that feels almost atmospheric.

The sideboard still retains many of the late Regency tendencies to present large blocked planes of wood and an almost architectural presence to a room.

There was a heated debate about cubism, in which the artist broke up the motif into smaller components, sometimes called facets, in order to rebuild it on the flat surface of the pic...

Hand-built ceramic elements grow out of the vase whose tendrils thrust outwards and break the plane into 3-dimensionality. Disappearing at the neck, there is an illusion that the vin...

His landscapes, with their recession through a series of planes, soft, warm lightning and classical and religious subject matter, drew on the examples of artists such as Claude Lorra...

His landscapes, with their recession through a series of planes, soft, warm lightning and classical and religious subject matter, drew on the examples of artists such as Claude Lorra...

Erté’s distinctive and elegant style came to epitomise the Art Deco era; it is characterised by a combination of sharp geometric line - like the harlequin background to this print - ...

Thus, we see compositions in "V", closed on the sides and open in the center, very low horizons that allow a wide development of the sky, spaces built in depth based on successive pl...

Sue Kendall says: "In their classical poses and formalized compositions, Miller’s shoppers become ovoid and columnar forms in cloche hats and chokers, a study of geometricized volume...

The painting, indeed, can be divided into two horizontal planes: the upper part is completely empty while the lower part is characterized by the movement and heat of the battle.

HALLMARKED: The reverse side of vase's round foot is plane - there is ENGRAVED DAUM NANCY SIGNATURE OF CIRCA 1895-1900 WITH CROSS OF LORRAINE visible.

Rather than completely disappearing, the Trimotors gained an enviable reputation for durability with Ford ads in 1929 proclaiming, "No Ford plane has yet worn out in service." First ...

Her dreamy condition is emphasized by the weird out-of-focus treatment of her eyes, the flat, gray sockets of which are hatched in parallel blacks and seem to be superimposed, like t...

Inspired by the frame of a bicycle and influenced by the constructivist theories of the De Stjil movement, Marcel Breuer was still an apprentice at the Bauhaus when he reduced the cl...

Inspired by the frame of a bicycle and influenced by the constructivist theories of the De Stjil movement, Marcel Breuer was still an apprentice at the Bauhaus when he reduced the cl...

The chiaroscuro contrast creates two parallel planes that open up a space for the imagination of what the city could be.

The entire composition is animated by a ternary rhythm: three horizontal planes (from left to right, the sideboard with the table clock and the tray of fruit, the cup on the studded ...

The trunks, growing upward, form a vertical structure that is horizontally penetrated by the spreading branches and the pine needles, which are rendered as a plane. This structural t...

Chikanobu used the flat planes and decorative patterning of the ukiyo-e tradition to striking effect, adding brilliant colors, especially reds, purples, and blues to his compositions...

He constructed refinements to the clockwork in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane, making possible the revolving dials of clocks in urns or in globes characteristic of t...

Later opening Stuart Salon at Marie Leavell, he gained notoriety for creating the signature hairstyles for Mary Wells and Braniff-International Airlines' "End of the Plain Plane" cam...