Antique Sickles

Vines, Wheat and Sickle Motif.

A set of twelve hand colored framed etchings of various fruit by Sickler. Signed by artist who

undulates gracefully across the rich red field of this superb antique Agra. The curling ‘sickle’ leaves are

(possibly a sickle sword) and four initials to the left, gold mount with trifurcated shoulders and fluted

. She is holding a sickle in the other.

Antique Gorham sterling silver double stamp box, 1899 sickle mark. Plain rectangular form with bead

style with a cream field, allover pattern of nicely spaced polychrome petal palmettes, sickle leaves

and creamy beige. Dark blue strip style border with geometric palmettes and sickle leaves. Good

the imminent harvest, held in her left hand while in her right hand she holds a sickle. Period: Meiji

quickly adopted in the West. Flourishing vinescrolls, colorful Shah Abbasi palmettes and arching sickle

sheaves and a sickle; Summer, a scantily clad young maiden holding a rose blossom; with Autumn, with

abrashed brown field decorated with sickle leaves, and with en suite half hexagons along the sides. Large

has been adorned with an extraordinary wreath crest with carved flowers, shovel, rake, and sickles

cornerpieces. A bold palmette border with sickle-shaped leaves encloses the field with appropriate

are accentuated by sickle-shaped fittings. The back is designed to correspond with blind drawers. The

elytra with corner V winglets, the underside engraved with a farmer with a sickle in his right hand, an

shoulders and holds ears of wheat and a sickle against her chest. Very fine, delicate work, particularly the

and 'sickle' palmettes set against a soft red ground frames the blue field, with smaller vinescroll

silk country dress holding a sickle in one hand and a sheaf of grain in the other. In the original

straw hat, with flowers and holding a small sickle and a sheaf of wheat, on a hand painted enamelled

sprays, splayed palmettes, star flowers, hyacinth flowers, delicate blossoms, curled sickle leaves

garland in his hair, the girl looking to her left with draped dress, a sickle in her extended right arm, a

back carrying a sickle in her right hand. Her left hand would have been carrying a sheath of wheat or a

decorated with hand carved embossed wheat, hat and sickle in one and a basket with apples and grapes in the

bundle of ears on one arm and a sickle on the other hand. She is crowned with other ears and poppies. A

meander flourishes. Sickle leaves, branching florals, and diagonally set palmette motifs create a graceful

masterpieces. Across the field swirling spiral vines and ‘sickle’ palmettes in ivory, mauve, and cinnamon

medallion is filled by similar forms, as well as by large sickle palmettes and two-headed dragons. Smaller

‘flame’ and ‘sickle’ palmettes in a wide array of rich colors repeats majestically across a dramatic blue

detail. The border with its round and sickle-shaped palmettes also draws up classical Persian precedent

decoration on a sickle decorated with running pearl, with swages of drapes hanging from a ring and entwined

outlines. This elaborate arabesque design features Baroque architectural elements and spiraling sickles

. These areas have a small-scale herati pattern with sickle leaves. The field area of soft abrash is open

a large sheaf of wheat and a sickle, Her well modelled head and drawn back hair adorned with a

bronze. The body shows agricultural trophies with a sickle, a shovel, a vase overflowing with flowers and

it's full of elements. Ceres is traditionally depicted as a young and beautiful woman holding a sickle

tendrils, floral sprigs, arabesque vinery, and curved sickle leaves. Alluring and richly ornamented, this

and a sickle and mounted on an circular white marble base. Signed by the sculptor, Boyer, and later

’ palmettes, some surrounded by curling ‘sickle’ leaves, simply repeated symmetrically, alternating with

Turkish'), the latter consisting of a pair of pomegranates connected to a sickle leaf, are also

shoulder, while the other one has a sickle in his hand. French chenets were used in fireplaces to

sickle yield' is taken from Thomas Gray's "Elegy written in A Country Churchyard" and depicts a

), although these appear to me more as a pair of pomegranates connected to a sickle leaf. I find especially

overseeing crops who is typically depicted with a sickle), or Chronus, the Greek figure associated with the

shaped ink blue medallion flanked with large-scale royal blue curled sickle leaves surrounding an oblong

bloody froth that foamed when Kronos castrated his father, the sky god Ouranos, with a sickle, and threw

, ceremonial dance implements, and valuables used for exchange. In ancient times the Sickle Blade knife( called

figure on the left, is holding a sickle, carrying wheat in her left arm while the one on the right is

palmettes, tulips, curved sickle leaves, and stylized florals, all connected through angular vines. Perfect

dial with aperture in the arch revealing a ‘rocking’ figure of Thanatos (a winged man carrying a sickle

possibilities are endless Elegant musical instruments, urns, roses, ribbons, wheat and sickle carvings

The Silver mark with the sickle was used by the goldsmiths J.D. Schleissner and sons. This was a

standing on rocky ground further decorated with a sickle and wheat bundles. The work of art is signed on

spray and a sickle in her hands is symbolizing summer. The fall is shown as a young maenad, a female

Allegory of Summer, Roman Ciociara with sickle portrayed in a wheat field, of excellent pictorial quality

with sinuous tendrils, many of which hang in a lilting sickle shape - an early form of the so-called

lilies, tulips, curved sickle leaves, feathers, and organic shapes stand out on the ink blue field. It is