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Craquelure in the Mona Lisa, with a typical "Italian" pattern of small rectangular blocks Age craquelure in pottery. Craquelure (French: craquelure; Italian: crettatura) is a fine pattern of dense cracking formed on the surface of materials. It can be a result of drying, shock, aging, intentional patterning, or a combination of all four.
Although an antique tool might be said to be one that is more than a hundred years old, the term is often used to describe any old tool of quality that might be deemed collectable. The use of tools is one of the primary means by which humans are distinguished from other animals.
A long, rounded wooden or marble tool rolled across dough to flatten it. Salt shaker: Distributes salt or pepper grains evenly onto a surface Scales: Kitchen scales, Weighing scales: Weights ingredients for more accurate cooking. Scissors: Kitchen scissors: Two blades used to shear surfaces. Scoop: Ice cream scoop
Common tooth patterns found on crosscut saws. All saws have cutting teeth, some may also have rakers and gullets. As the saw is pulled toward the operator, the cutters score the wood to the left and right of the width of the blade, cutting a channel downward into the wood. Many sawtooth patterns have four cutters;
John D. Larkin. Buffalo Pottery was founded in 1901 by John D. Larkin (1845-1926) to supply the Larkin Company with premiums for its customers. The company's first general manager, Lewis H. Bown, recruited a number of skilled craftsmen and artisans from throughout the United States, including William J. Rea, Anna Kappler, and Ralph Stuart.
Plates with crackling and bird designs, 1896-c. 1920. Dedham Pottery was an American art pottery company opened by the Robertson Family in Dedham, Massachusetts during the American arts & crafts movement that operated between 1896 and 1943.
Diane Labombarbe/istockphotoFamily game nights may have come and gone, but those vintage board games you have stored in your attic may still be worth dusting off. Like well-worn cassette tapes and ...
Transfer-printed creamware bowl in the "Variety" pattern, influenced by Japonism, c. 1879–85, "Ridgways" The two brothers decided to go their own ways in 1830, by which time they were also running their uncle George's Bell Works, which William took, while John stayed at Cauldon Place.