EditorialUnknown (Chinese), Chop Plate, 1750/1800, Glazed hard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamel and gilding, Height x diameter: 1 5/8 x 12 1/16 in. (4.1 x 30.6 cm).
EditorialDrawbar with missing stem, drawbar, tool with which one can chop and whose blade is perpendicular to the stem. The blade is slightly curved, the housing is rectangular and slightly tapered, the hammer-shaped head is octagonal and slightly wider at the ...
EditorialLantern Slide - Tree Felling, Gippsland, Victoria, Date Unknown, Black and white image of men poised precariously on their makeshift supports, ready to chop down a large tree in the Gippsland area, photographed by A.J. Campbell. This is one of many gla...
EditorialRecipe for an Invalid's Mutton Chop. The book of household management ... Entirely new edition, revised and corrected, with new coloured engravings. London : Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co., 1892. Source: 7942.dd.9. page 1243.
EditorialChinese vessel. 1800 - 1805. Sie-qua-peen-teang. This is the kind of vessel used for taking cargo to and from the European ships at Wampoa; commonly called Chop boat by Europeans'. Inscribed: 'Boat for sending foreign merchants to Macao.' Originally p...
EditorialDiners in a Chop Shop. Date/Period: Between 1800 and 1805. Genre subject. Watercolor with pen and brown and red-brown ink over graphite, verso: black crayon, graphite, and ink lines, numbers and tracing of recto image. on medium, smooth, blued white, w...
EditorialDolly of the Chop House, 8 Queen's Head Passage, London, depicted in shawl and apron, holding a glass and small jug. Copperplate engraving after George Cruikshank from John Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, Young, Lon...
EditorialCleaning For Fuel In London; When The Cat's Away; R. Barnes, the men's dinner hour is the children's opportunity, and when the watchman's back is turned they contrive to do a little mining on their own account, and thus make up for the deficiencies in ...