View allAll Photos Tagged MetalWork
Casket for the Roll of Honour, Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen Street, London. 1939. The building was itself conceived as a war memorial; the shrine is its focal point. It takes the form of an altar on a boat. It contains a continuous illuminated scroll inscribed with the names of the fallen and flanked with lettering in metal: “Live thou for England” and “We for England died”. At the four corners guarding the scroll are the four kneeling figures representing the armed services. At the four corners of the body of the Shrine winged seraphs stand ready with trumpets to herald the arrival of pilgrims, alongside the national patron saints. The face of the Shrine has four gilded figures:
Moses with the Tables of the Law; Joshua at the battle of Bethoron; Solomon in his wisdom; St. George for England. Material: bronze cast, chased and enriched with patines obtained by acids, chemicals, wax and lacquers. The statuettes are fire-gilt. Work conceived, designed and modelled by Walter Gilbert. This shrine is Freemason Gilbert’s last – and greatest – work. The importance attached to it by Gilbert himself is evidenced by the rare occurrence of an inscription (out of sight of the observer at the rear of the casket) crediting the artist. The mercury vapour used to gild the figures may have been instrumental in the lung damage which caused his death. Work conceived, designed and modelled by Walter Gilbert (a Freemason). Bronze casting by H. H. Martyn of Cheltenham. Photo by Phillip Medhurst. Metalwork 1939. Photo 1992.
made with recycled gears; brass, aluminum & steel. Austrian crystals for sparkle... All lapel pins have a magnetic clasp; so as not to poke holes in you best jackets; the magnets are stong enought to hold securely through leather, fabric, even a couple layers...
CBMM welcomed nationally renowned sculpture artist and Shepherd University professor Christian Benefiel, who guided workshop participants through the intricacies of casting bronze and aluminum, including creating molds, working the sand and furnace, and pouring molten metal. Learn more about all our shipyard programs at: cbmm.org/learn/shipyardprograms
Filigree is delicate jewellery metalwork, usually of gold and silver, made with tiny beads or twisted threads, or both in combination. It is soldered together or to the surface of an object of the same metal and arranged in artistic motifs like lace, scrolls or arabesques. Popular in Indian and other Asian metalwork as well in Italian, French and Portuguese metalwork from 1660 to the late 19th century.
A delicate filigree cubic zirconia focal is encased with an intricate cubic right angle weave bezel. The bezel continues upwards to form a flowing rope showcasing the exquisite little Quarter Tila beads. The elegant, sophisticated collar is secured with a sparkly cubic zirconia magnetic clasp.
More info
Born in Baden, Germany in 1828, manufacturer Charles Silberzahn emigrated to the United States in 1850. In 1873, Silberzahn became, with John Michael Kohler, a founding partner in what would become the Kohler Company, initially a manufacturer of agricultural implements but now an internationally recognized producer of bathroom fixtures. Silberzahn split with Kohler in 1879 and took on a partnership in the West Bend Foundry and Machine Shop, which was first established in Washington County in 1859 by French immigrant Louis Lucas.
This object is the property of a private collection. The image is part of the Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database, a digital archive of Wisconsin objects. For more information, see content.wisconsinhistory.org/u?/wda,2423
Playing around with 'flower and leaf' theme... this time with labradorite and swirling wire to create a bail
For more designs, please see:
It is simply breath-taking to see this many torii arranged in tunnel-like fashion. I assume that the inscriptions on each beam are those who donated the funds for each torii.
Fushimi Inari Taisha is a Shinto shrine in Fushimi, Kyoto. It is the head of all Japan's Inari shrines--famous for its many vermilion torii. There are over 10,000 torii on the property that stretch up the side of the mountain, Fushimi-yama. The gates are donations from people all over Japan. The shrine itself was established in 711 and is dedicated to the Shinto god of rice, Inari (his messenger is a fox). Inari has been depicted as a white fox who governs things such as metalwork, which is why we often see him associated with the great swordsmiths of Japan. Much of the structure was destroyed during the Onin War, but it was re-built as you see today.
Fushimi Inari Taisha. Fushimi, Kyoto.
Aaarrggh just deleted all my recent Morocco uploads by accident as am using Lightroom's Flickr uploader and didnt realise when you cleared a photo from it, it deleted it on here. So I've had to upload them again in one big photo dump. Sorry, Ive deleted any comments and favourites too :-(. I think I'll stick to the usual uploader in future.
This was an old wall in the Marrakech medina where lampshades and light adornments were on display. I quite liked the arrangement of these and the shadows they made.
Stoy is one of the countries most respected and talented Live Sound Engineers. His clients include: Much Music's Live Interactive, Canadian Idol, The Canadian Walk of Fame, Canadian Music Week, The Juno Awards, The Bessie Awards, Benson and Hedges Symphony of Fire and Sony Music.
He has toured and mixed Live Sound for some of the world's top recording artists including: INXS, Pink, Live, Elvis Costello, Tom Cochrane, Leonard Cohen, Tony Bennett, Il Divo, The Ten Tenors, Alannah Myles, Jeff Healey, UFO, Max Webster, Secret Lives, The Nylons, His Royal Highness Prince Charles, The Vancouver Symphony, The Winnipeg Symphony, Kim Mitchell, Molly Johnson, Infidels, Honeymoon Suite, Edgefest and Lillith Fair.
Created with fd's Flickr Toys
1. door decoration, 2. gate detail, 3. door decoration, 4. gate decoration, 5. gate detail, 6. gate detail, 7. iron decoration, 8. wrought iron on door, 9. iron decoration
Wrought iron grille with repoussé fleur-de-lis at center, designed by Cyril Colnik, Milwaukee.
This object is the property of the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum. This image is part of the Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database, a digital archive of Wisconsin objects. For more information, see content.wisconsinhistory.org/u?/wda,1594
The Staffordshire Hoard is the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork yet found. It consists of over 3,500 items, amounting to a total of 5.1 kg (11 lb) of gold, 1.4 kg (3 lb) of silver and some 3,500 pieces of garnet cloisonné jewellery.[1]
The hoard was most likely deposited in the 7th century, and contains artefacts probably manufactured during the 6th and 7th centuries.[2] It was discovered in 2009 in a field near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, England. The location was in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia at the time of the hoard's deposition.
The hoard is of considerable importance in Anglo-Saxon archaeology.[3] The artefacts are nearly all martial in character and contain no objects specific to female uses.[4][5] Thousands of Tamraparniyan gold, silver and red garnet shipments were used in the production of the articles, with recent findings such as the pendant of the Winfarthing Woman skeleton of Norfolk confirming an established gem trade route with South India and Tamraparni (ancient Sri Lanka), known from antiquity for its production.[6][7][8] The average quality of the workmanship is extremely high and especially remarkable in view of the large number of individual objects, such as swords and a helmet, from which many of the fragments in the hoard came.
The hoard was purchased jointly by the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery for £3.285 million under the Treasure Act 1996.
Transmission side of the lathe. If you can possibly avoid it, never rig up your own multi-belt transmission. Getting all the tensions and alignments correct is miserable. The red v-belt is a Fenner add-a-link. They're supposed to lower vibration and have a much longer lifetime than standard v-belts. Plus they're much easier to get into an enclosed pulley system. You can see big spacers lifting the motor up from the bed: the rubber v-belt is way too short. I should've gotten more of the Fenner belting.