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Slab or Side Table
Kent Williams
Painted pine with original Sienna marble top; carved with dolphins, shellwork, and scrolls · 1730
Art Institute of Chicago
Slab or Side Table
Daniel William Kent
Painted pine with original Sienna marble top; carved with dolphins, shellwork, and scrolls · 1730
Art Institute of Chicago
Bureau Secretary
Giles Grendey
Oak, pine, walnut, paint, gilding, silvering, gesso, varnish, mirror glass, leather, brass, and iron · 1730
Art Institute of Chicago
Bureau Secretary
Giles Grendey
Oak, pine, walnut, paint, gilding, silvering, gesso, varnish, mirror glass, leather, brass, and iron · 1730
Art Institute of Chicago
Chest-Over-Drawer
Robert Crosman
White pine, iron, brass, and paint · 1725
Art Institute of Chicago
Console clock (Pendule a console)
Champion
gild on pine (wood), brass (alloy), bronze (metal), wood (plant material), tortoise shell · 1715
Rijksmuseum
Chest
&Tradition
Red oak, white oak, hard maple, white pine · 1685
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Box
John Thurston
White oak, red oak, yellow pine · 1660
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Double Virginal
Hans Rucker
Pine, beech, poplar, mahogany, paint, gesso, metal, parchment, brass · 1550
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Apostles' Creed (Das Symbolum der Heiligen Aposteln)
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Book with fifteen woodcuts with letterpress in black on cream laid paper, in eighteenth-century full brown sheepskin, sewn on raised bands, with gold tooled decoration on inner-edges of boards, blind lines and gold titling on the spine, hand-sewn silk headbands, marbled endsheets, and a purple silk page marker · 1548
Art Institute of Chicago
The Small Woodcut Passion
Albrecht Dürer
Woodcut and letterpress in black, with additions in pen and brown ink on cream laid paper, in modern full red calfskin, sewn on raised bands, with blind fillets around inner-edges of boards, blind lines and gold titling on the spine, and hand-sewn silk headbands · 1511
Art Institute of Chicago
Book of Hours, Use of Paris
SIMON
Woodcut, metalcut, and letterpress in black with brush and gouache, and pen and ink on vellum (discolored at edges), in eighteenth-century full red goatskin, sewn on raised bands, with Cambridge-style gold tooling, rolled edges in gold, gold stamped spine decoration, hand-sewn silk headbands, and marbled endsheets · 1508
Art Institute of Chicago
Livre D’Ornemens, de Fleurons, Cadres, Tables, Portes, Cheminées, Consoles, Portemontres, Buffets, Cartouches, Lampes d’Eglises, Encensoires, Navettes, Croix, Soleils, &c. Gravé par J.J. Balechou. Utile aux jeunes gens qui apprennent à dessiner l’Ornemt. et. Aux Artistes chargés dexecuter de pareils Ouvrages.
Thomas Lainé, French
albums (bound) & books, album — an album of prints bound in a quarter leather binding with marbled paper sides, lettering piece on the spine and printed ex-libris pasted onto the upper pastedown.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum