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A Very Rare Large Zitan Balance Stand
17th Century
The protruding top rail is supported on vertical posts joined by a stretcher fitted with narrow openwork panels above shaped corner spandrels. The posts are flanked by standing spandrels and fitted into thick humped feet joined by a single drawer.
76.5 cm high, 69.9 cm wide, 33.5 cm deep
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Estimate : USD 70,000 - USD 90,000
Price realised : USD 247,500
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The Marie Theresa L. Virata Collection of Asian Art : A Family Legacy
16 March 2017, New York
Work to fully restore and reopen Lightwoods House has finally begun, after so many years.
The part of the park near the house is fenced off.
With only access to the Skate park on this side.
The rest of the park can be accessed from the main roads (I think).
Scaffolding around the Bandstand.
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
"A particularly fine shopping arcade of 1890-93, designed by Twentyman and Askew in a Boom version of the French Renaissance style, with handsome plate glass shop windows, an octagon at the junction on the two arms, mosaic tiled floors, a glass roof of which some sheets survive with their original decoration, cast-iron roof principals with elegant openwork spandrels, and six and seven storey buildings facing on to Elizabeth and Collins Street: in all a late monument to the financial boom and to B. J. Fink, J. McAlister Howden and the other members of the City Property Company, for which it was built."
Source: vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/vhd/heritagevic#detail_places;64610
Close-up showing the pattern. The mesh area is bordered by groups of five satin stitches (a kloster block) worked over four threads with four threads left uncut between the blocks to form the woven bars.
Blogged here: suetortoise.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/a-year-with-stitches/
I began on this dress by dyeing a fabulous mid-century slip. I was so captivated by the openwork trim, that I mimicked it in the design. I found an illustration in an anatomical textbook that had a similar pattern to describe the circulation to the lungs and abdomen. I used a variety of different recycled fabrics to appliqué onto the dress, including velvet for the leg bones and tailbone, satin for the pelvis and back ribs, silk for the circulation, and blue leather for the amoeba shapes. I also left a lot of the threads loose and dangling from the abdomen.
Crochet tunic made of 100% cotton double mercerization, which resulted in very fine, delicate things.
The length and shape of the tunic is easily adjustable thin drawstring at the waist. Ribbon can be removed. By the tunic is well suited wide belt at the hips. It looks great on your underwear or white flesh
This fourteenth-century Bishop's Chair with an impressive carved canopy made for J L Pearson, Cathedral architect fom 1870-93. It is unlikely, however, the chair originally ever had an integral canopy. The chair is of primitive joined construction. It has been assembled with a series of stub tenons secured by pegs. The decorative front panel has two tiers of openwork quatrefoils, carved from a single piece of oak. The arms feature carved lions, the heads of which are restorations under Pearson. There is a chapter on the chair in the book "Britain's Medieval Episcopal Thrones" by Charles Tracy, Oxbow Books, 2015.
Two Gilt-Bronze Belt Buckles with Oxen
North China, 3rd=2nd Century BC
Each rectangular plaque is cast in openwork and mirror image with an ox standing with all four legs visible, its head turned to the side and its tail visible between its legs, all within a herringbone border. One has two vertical attachment loops on the reverse, the other a single loop and a rounded loop on the inner edge.
6 cm wide
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Estimate : USD 2,000 - USD 3,000
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The Harris Collection : Important Early Chinese Art
16 March 2017, New York
Crochet tunic made of 100% cotton double mercerization, which resulted in very fine, delicate things.
The length and shape of the tunic is easily adjustable thin drawstring at the waist. Ribbon can be removed. By the tunic is well suited wide belt at the hips. It looks great on your underwear or white flesh
Meissen, Teller, Durchbruch, Durchbruchteller, Ming Drache, Mingdrache, Gold, Drachen, www.kabelitz-porzellan.de
The Borobudur Temple Compounds is one of the greatest Buddhist monuments in the world, and was built in the 8th and 9th centuries AD during the reign of the Syailendra Dynasty. The monument is located in the Kedu Valley, in the southern part of Central Java, at the centre of the island of Java, Indonesia.
The main temple is a stupa built in three tiers around a hill which was a natural centre: a pyramidal base with five concentric square terraces, the trunk of a cone with three circular platforms and, at the top, a monumental stupa. The walls and balustrades are decorated with fine low reliefs, covering a total surface area of 2,520 m2. Around the circular platforms are 72 openwork stupas, each containing a statue of the Buddha.
Bracelet with dark silver coin pearls, silver button pearls, rainbow obsidian coins, glass Czech cathedral beads, gunmetal Hemalyke pearls, sterling openwork bead caps, sterling wire and springring clasp.
A wonderful hilltop church, sensitively restored by Temple Moore 1906-11. C13 base to tower and arades, a C14 north chapel, much else appears Perp. including the tower top with openwork parapet and eight pinnacles. C18 brick parpaets to the aisles chancel and chapel, the porch is C18 as well. Inside there is a C15 screen to the north chapel, a C17 pulpiyt and a west gallery of 1767. Royal Arms of George III
[Originally uploaded for the flickr group Guess Where UK]
Fibula with openwork and floral decoration. Germanic, 5th Century AD. Gold jewelry. Vienna, Austria. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier.
Hand Knitted openwork in olive green vintage mohair.
© KnittingGuru, 2011. All rights reserved. All images and finished designs, including the name and description, are the intellectual property of KnittingGuru.
First steps in a second yellow mat. This shows the hem and drawnwork border which was on the mat when I bought it from a stall in Shrewsbury market hall. I am neatening the edge of the drawnwork with hemstitch. I have also marked out the area that will be stitched. A tedious job, but it's worth taking the time to do this properly - it makes the actual stitching much easier and mistakes less likely.
blogged here: suetortoise.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/a-year-with-stitches/
Butterfield during his 1864-5 restoration of the church reset the fragments of the stalls provided by Bishop Richard Fox in the early 16thC. in the western bay of the choir. The friezes of openwork panels have been fixed above the coving rather than, as originally, fixed to it. Some panels bear Fox's pelican badge and the diocesan arms, but the most prominent feature is large medallions with human heads in profile. Pilasters separate them with Renaissance foliate drops and these continue below the mid-rail as pendant posts which end in corbel figures.
Title: Basket
Artist/Maker: Unknown
Place Made: China
Date Made: ca. 1772
Medium: ceramic; porcelain with overglaze enamels
Measurements: Overall: 3 7/8 in x 8 13/16 in x 6 7/8 in; 9.8425 cm x 22.38375 cm x 17.4625 cm
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick Frelinghuysen
Collection: The Diplomatic Reception Rooms, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.
Accession No: RR-1966.0016
The center sections {in red} built by Esias Compenius from 1603-13 ; the lateral extensions by Adolf Reubke, 1859.
The tall section here appears to have original carvings in relief.
A thorough history of the instrument can be found at www.compenius-orgel.de/geschichtederorgel.htm
Textile fragment, Chancay people. Pre-Columbian Peru, 50 x 30 cm. Photograph by D Dunlop. From the library of WikiMechanics.org.
Detailed pictures of the Practical Sampler I completed in May 2011. Most of the bands are based on designs and inspiration from the DMC booklet "Broideries Ajourées Sur Toile" from the Antique Pattern Library www.antiquepatternlibrary.org
The multicolour stripes were just testing out various thread sizes and types on the same stitch. The open band was not inspired by the DMC book - I wanted to find out if there was enough slack in the uncut threads to make deflected-element diamond shapes.