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Marquetry (also spelled as marqueterie; from the French marqueter, to variegate) is the art and craft of applying pieces of veneer to a structure to form decorative patterns or designs. The technique may be applied to case furniture or even seat furniture, to decorative small objects with smooth, veneerable surfaces or to freestanding pictorial ...
Bronze weapon from the Mesara Plain, Crete. Copper came into use in the Aegean area near the end of the predynastic age of Egypt about 3500 BC. The earliest known implement is a flat celt, which was found on a Neolithic house-floor in the central court of the palace of Knossos in Crete, and is regarded as an Egyptian product.
A grandfather clock (also a longcase clock, tall-case clock, grandfather's clock, hall clock or floor clock) is a tall, freestanding, weight-driven pendulum clock, with the pendulum held inside the tower or waist of the case. Clocks of this style are commonly 1.8–2.4 metres (6–8 feet) tall with an enclosed pendulum and weights, suspended by ...
French ormolu mantel clock (around 1800) by Julien Béliard (born 1758 – died after 1806), Paris.The clock case by Claude Galle (1758–1815). Mantel clock from Austria (around 1840), National Museum in Kraków.
Replicas of antique timepieces cast in brass, in the Louis XVI, Directoire and Empire styles Archived 2019-06-03 at the Wayback Machine; Sentiabrev (Russia), some of their clocks range are in the Empire style; Model cast in copper by the Chinese company Hebei Yuxuan Classical Clock Co., Ltd Archived 2013-12-13 at the Wayback Machine
An example of the Eastlake Style in Glendale, California. The Eastlake movement was a nineteenth-century architectural and household design reform movement started by British architect and writer Charles Eastlake (1836–1906).
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The Waterbury Brass Company was founded in 1846, by a group of businessmen led by Israel Holmes, a Waterbury industrialist who had previously engaged in other brass works. The company acquired a water privilege on the Mad River, and built its mill on the river's north bank. By the late 1850s the company was rolling more brass than any other ...