Antique Saw

The conversion to Christianity in 1512 of King Alfoso I of the Kongo saw the subsequent creation by Kongolese sculptors of Christian crucifixes and images of the Virgin Mary and St A...

The single top plank is a formidable 3 ½” thick, that exhibits amazing textures by the repetition of saw blades and hand tools necessary to the carpenter’s craft.

With its masterful blend of humor and irony, The Coward is an excellent example of Rockwell’s keen ability to produce optimistic imagery that could buck up the spirits of everyday Am...

The sconce is embellished with the contemporary engraved crest of out of a ducal coronet, an oak fructed and penetrated transversely in the main stem by a frame-saw, bearing the mott...

The Battle of Vigo Bay was a naval engagement during the War of the Spanish Succession that saw a combined Anglo-Dutch navy capture a fleet of Spanish ships laden with treasure from ...

Constructed from solid wood with mortise-and-tenon joinery, the bench features an integrated leg vise with wooden screw mechanism, multiple tool wells, and dog holes along the surfac...

They no longer do tours of the lobby but I mistakenly walked in thinking this was a hotel and accidentally saw it. The chain of stores he founded continued expanding into 1960’s bu...

This period, known as the "late Gustavian" style, saw furniture designs becoming more restrained, with square legs and plain surfaces becoming common.

They were known for their surgical sets containing knives, saws, amputation blades, and surgical instruments.

These pieces, while predominantly Baroque, have a certain Neoclassical refinement to them: this merging of styles is typical of the nineteenth century and Picard's work, who operated...

The great Qing Dynasty, also known as the last and largest imperial dynasty of China (spanning from 1636-1912), saw many cultural and artistic achievements over the centuries, from b...

Bobbin turning as a furniture technique has roots in Northern European craft traditions, particularly prevalent in Dutch and Flemish vernacular furniture from the 17th century onward...

He was educated alongside his sister, Elizabeth, to whom he was the closest in age. Edward saw little of his father until he became an ‘adult’ at the age of six.

With lovingly maintained gardens and paddock extending to over four acres, the property also includes two annexes, offering additional flexibility and potential within this wonderful...

This 'English Empire' style saw custom furniture characterized by lion's paws, sphinxes and ancient Greek repeating patterns.

When King Henry VIII ordered the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539 the priory was abandoned and fell into ruin, but by the early 19th century interest in the Picturesque saw its...

It was in Starr's gallery that Karl Bitter first saw Schrady's work and hired him to make larger versions of his bull moose and elk buffalo sculptures, to be shown at the 1901 Pan-Am...

However, its wide availability as a native timber, combined with technical advances in water-powered veneer saws, meant that from the 1810s onwards it became a particularly popular v...

Webber has drawn, was one of the finest men I ever saw.”Of his vestments, King says ‘…they [the inhabitants of Hawaii] have another [dress], appropriated to their Chiefs, and used on...

This piece is thought to be a wooden Nyorai Buddha statue carved in the late Heian period. The moment we first saw it at the time of purchase, we were completely captivated by its pr...

The Fauves were producing Fauve paintings before they knew it: it was not until the critic Louis Vauxcelles saw their work at the Salon des Indépendants in 1905 and mockingly used th...

This historical moment, crucial for Italian painting, saw the papal city as an extraordinary crossroads of pictorial stimuli: on the one hand the Lombard painters with a host of arti...

The boy, however, could not help but fall asleep; Helios saw the lovers and alerted Hephaestus, Aphrodite's husband.

The name "cashmere" is a nineteenth-century collectors' coinage: they saw in the density and colour of these wares a likeness to the Kashmir shawls then coveted by European women.

Their epic book was published in three volumes, from 1836 to 1844. McKenney and Hall saw their work as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of what they feared was a rapidly...

In 1762 Romney settled in London, leaving his wife and son behind, and henceforward saw them only on his few visits to the north. He won premiums for his historical paintings from th...

Struck by the vitality of Lion et Serpent François Lenormand remarked, “The first time I saw it, I thought the lion moved. Yesterday I heard it roar”.

Struck by the vitality of Lion et Serpent François Lenormand remarked, “The first time I saw it, I thought the lion moved. Yesterday I heard it roar”.

Often Italian makers were so skilled and the technique was so precisely and masterfully applied that the boundary between each piece is practically invisible, were it not for changin...

Their epic book was published in three volumes, from 1836 to 1844. McKenney and Hall saw their work as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of what they feared was a rapidly...

Davis spent most of his life at Windsor; it was George III who first saw his work and arranged for him to be placed under Sir Francis Bourgeois.

The Song Dynasty This was a golden age of economic, cultural, and technological innovation in China, founded by Emperor Taizu, Zhao Kuangyin. It saw the invention of gunpowder, magn...

Matching pair of countryscape cast iron stove plate depicting two lumberjacks with a crosscut saw, a moose, horse, fox and birds. Good detail with oxidation and patina.

Braque painted without a model, without a pre-established composition; as a painter, he saw colors and forms, not objects, and only later did he transform the patches of color sugges...

Consider that the 16th century saw a dense network of cultural exchanges between France, Italy and Spain; in particular, Italian artists came to France, called by aristocratic patron...

The back panel exhibits expected rough circular saw and hand-plane marks with minor oxidation cracks and shrinkage gaps consistent with age, cementing its pedigree as a true period p...

Inkerman, fought in dense fog on 5 November 1854 and remembered as "the Soldier's Battle", saw the Anglo-French repulse of a massive Russian sortie in some of the fiercest close-quar...

this rare late 19th century Antique tribal sofra kilim highlights a powerful and rhythmic geometric composition featuring a nested sequence of concentric serrated diamond rings ancho...

This structural balance between the dynamic saw-tooth edges of the diamond lattice, the asymmetric corner spandrels in deep indigo and sky blue, and the precise execution of the flat...

Prince Asaka studied in France during the early 1920s and was smitten by the culture, particularly the wonders he saw at L’Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriel...

According to the text, James had vowed not to eat until he saw the risen Christ. Jesus appears, tells James he has come, and they eat together. .

The tree trunks were sawn by hand or with gang saws (using water power) and stored in the fresh air for several years.

Malfait’s artistic evolution saw him transition from impressionism to expressionism, influenced by Eugène Laermans and Jakob Smits.

He was condemned to an eternity in Hades for angering the Gods and was forced to stand forever in water that, when he bent to drink, would recede and to gaze upon foods he could only...

Within a few years, James Hall, a lawyer who had written extensively about the West, joined him. McKenney and Hall saw their work as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of ...

J.C Loudon, the famous domestic style commentator and designer also gave mention of the chair within his hugely popular, “Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm and Villa Architecture & ...

The Egyptians afforded animals a post-mortem treatment similar to that given to humans, and hundreds of mummies of animals such as dogs, cats, falcons, ibises, crocodiles, and snakes...

The lantern was removed in the 1980s during the wave of pub refurbishments that saw many original exterior fittings lost. Glazing This lantern is offered with standard clear glass ...

The heavy Mark IV tank first saw action in 1917, winning the first tank vs tank battle against the German A7V tank Nixe in 1918.

Both the lid and body feature borders composed of repeating saw-tooth or notch carvings, characteristic of folk-carved pieces that contribute to an architectural, refined appearance.

This tool is a large, relatively thick and heavy rip saw specialized for sawing logs into timbers and boards.

The signature clearly marks the base through moulding, etching, script, print sandblasting or a curved design. Lalique immediately saw the opportunity to draw attention to his masco...

The exceptional clarity of the angular outlines specifically the saw tooth edges of the central medallions and the minute tribal “filler” motifs scattered throughout the field defini...

Alongside the classic ‘cassaforte’ in lacquered or metallic finishes, Northern Italy also saw the emergence of prestigious pieces of furniture featuring sophisticated security constr...

Chintz, silk and wool materials for curtain and bed-covers; hangings in every possible material ; carpets and stair-carpets to order ; in short, anything one might desire to furnish ...

This board was likely made in the late 19th Century, considered the Golden Age of Folk Art. This period saw a surge in handmade, decorative boards. While commercially made boards wer...

Winding the handle operates the blacksmith, sawmill, saws, hammer, wood gymnast, and woman with colorful spinning display.

'The Field' was first published as a weekly magazine in 1853, initiated by the renowned sportsman Robert Smith Surtees (and the creator of Jorrocks) who saw a gap in the market for i...

While oil lamps have been used for thousands of years, it was in the 19th and early 20th centuries that they became an essential part of domestic life, shaped by industrial productio...

At the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune in 1912, he saw the works of his countrymen Carlo Carra, Umberto Boccioni and Gino Severini.