EditorialA Man Shooting with a Blowpipe, illustration for the Conch Shell (Horagai), from the series "A Matching Game with Genroku-period Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)". Katsushika Hokusai ?? ??; Japanese, 1760-1849. Date: 1821. Dimensions: 19.3 x 17.1 ...
EditorialA Man Shooting with a Blowpipe, illustration for the Conch Shell (Horagai), from the series "A Matching Game with Genroku-period Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)". Katsushika Hokusai ?? ??; Japanese, 1760-1849. Date: 1821. Dimensions: 19.3 x 17.1 ...
Editorialblowgun, Anonymous, 18th century, forged, General: 75 x 8 x 5.2cm 750 x 80 x 52mm, Forged iron octagonal, slightly flared, blowpipe with a protruding edge at the opening and an S-shaped curled hook with button. The blowgun was used to light the fire, 1889.
Editorialblowpipe, Anonymous, 18th century, forged, General: 78 x 5 x 3.2cm 780 x 50 x 32mm, Round wrought iron blowpipe, rejuvenated downwards. Two hooks on the profiled bottom, at the top a protruding edge with an S-shaped hook, which runs parallel to the pip...
Editorialblowpipe, Anonymous, 18th century, forged, General: 78 x 5 x 3.2cm 780 x 50 x 32mm, Round wrought iron blowpipe, rejuvenated downwards. Two hooks on the profiled bottom, at the top a protruding edge with an S-shaped hook, which runs parallel to the pip...
EditorialVolynka, Georgian, 19th century, Georgia, Georgian, Wood, brass, horn, sheepskin, glass, Blowpipe 16 cm (6-5/16 in.); double chanters 26 cm (10-1/4 in.); double chanters, including single upturned horn bell and wooden yoke 27 cm (22-7/16 in.), Aerophon...
EditorialGas blowpipe or blowtorch, early 19th century. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1811.
EditorialBotocudo chief carrying bow and long arrows and woman with blowpipe, Eastern Brazil, South America. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pi...
Editorialblowgun, Anonymous, 18th century, forged, General: 75 x 8 x 5.2cm 750 x 80 x 52mm, Forged iron octagonal, slightly flared, blowpipe with a protruding edge at the opening and an S-shaped curled hook with button. The blowgun was used to light the fire, 1889.
Editorialblowpipe, Anonymous, 18th century, forged, General: 78 x 5 x 3.2cm 780 x 50 x 32mm, Round wrought iron blowpipe, rejuvenated downwards. Two hooks on the profiled bottom, at the top a protruding edge with an S-shaped hook, which runs parallel to the pip...
EditorialVolynka, Georgian, 19th century, Georgia, Georgian, Wood, brass, horn, sheepskin, glass, Blowpipe 16 cm (6-5/16 in.); double chanters 26 cm (10-1/4 in.); double chanters, including single upturned horn bell and wooden yoke 27 cm (22-7/16 in.), Aerophon...
EditorialBellow with Vulcanus workshop, Walnut bellow. The top, sculpted in relief, shows the Workshop of Vulcan, including Vulcan, Venus, Amor, an armored knight and an old man, volutes with drapery on both sides. The handle is decorated with a mask. The backs...
EditorialCelery vase, 1827?35, Made in Sandwich, Massachusetts, United States, American, Pressed glass, H. 7 5/16 in. (18.6 cm); Diam. 4 9/16 in. (11.6 cm), Glass, Attributed to Boston & Sandwich Glass Company (American, 1825?1888, Sandwich, Massachusetts), The...
EditorialPair of Bellows with the Flight into Egypt, Consists of a front and back leaf, both half round at the top with a protrusion as a handle and taper down into a copper blowpipe. On the cover page the Flight to Egypt above a profiled console, against which...
EditorialJon Stokes, deputy editor of an online prepping guide, “The Prepared,” and his daughters maintain a fire with a blowpipe at their home in Georgetown, Texas, April 10, 2020. (Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times)
EditorialPair of Bellows with the Flight into Egypt, Consists of a front and back leaf, both half round at the top with a protrusion as a handle and taper down into a copper blowpipe. On the cover page the Flight to Egypt above a profiled console, against which...
EditorialBellows made of partially gilded walnut with reliefs including Samson breaking open the lion's mouth, Bellows made of partially gilt walnut The top carved in relief shows two dedicated lions holding a rolling cartouche with Samson in the middle breakin...
EditorialA Man Shooting with a Blowpipe, illustration for the Conch Shell (Horagai), from the series "A Matching Game with Genroku-period Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)". Katsushika Hokusai ?? ??; Japanese, 1760-1849. Date: 1821. Dimensions: 19.3 x 17.1 ...
EditorialCelery vase, 1827?35, Made in Sandwich, Massachusetts, United States, American, Pressed glass, H. 7 5/16 in. (18.6 cm); Diam. 4 9/16 in. (11.6 cm), Glass, Attributed to Boston & Sandwich Glass Company (American, 1825?1888, Sandwich, Massachusetts), The...
EditorialBellow with Vulcanus workshop, Walnut bellow. The top, sculpted in relief, shows the Workshop of Vulcan, including Vulcan, Venus, Amor, an armored knight and an old man, volutes with drapery on both sides. The handle is decorated with a mask. The backs...
EditorialGun Lock (Percussion), Percussion lock with brass housing and iron hammer. The housing must be fastened lengthwise on the right-hand side against the lock raised with two bolts. The hammer rotates on its axis between two cheeks and has a hole in the sh...
EditorialA Man Shooting with a Blowpipe, illustration for the Conch Shell (Horagai), from the series "A Matching Game with Genroku-period Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)". Katsushika Hokusai ?? ??; Japanese, 1760-1849. Date: 1821. Dimensions: 19.3 x 17.1 ...
EditorialA Man Shooting with a Blowpipe, illustration for the Conch Shell (Horagai), from the series "A Matching Game with Genroku-period Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)". Katsushika Hokusai ?? ??; Japanese, 1760-1849. Date: 1821. Dimensions: 19.3 x 17.1 ...
EditorialCelery vase, 1827?35, Made in Sandwich, Massachusetts, United States, American, Pressed glass, H. 7 5/16 in. (18.6 cm); Diam. 4 9/16 in. (11.6 cm), Glass, Attributed to Boston & Sandwich Glass Company (American, 1825?1888, Sandwich, Massachusetts), The...
EditorialGas blowpipe or blowtorch, early 19th century. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1811.
EditorialBotocudo chief carrying bow and long arrows and woman with blowpipe, Eastern Brazil, South America. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pi...