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Historical Archive: Household, Hospitality, Personal, and Cooking items, and Commercial tools
This list is alphabetical, not chronological. It includes both surviving examples and representations.
See also items listed individually in the indices of object types and objects depicted
ashtray: René Lalique, glass with rabbit c.1919-30, UMMA 1972/2.229. For another view see UMMA.
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belt hook (clavendier): silver, silver gilt, and enamel, Netherlands late 14th c., CMA 1977.28. See also key hooks below.
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bread: Eucharistic bread, Early Byzantine Egypt, KM 1971.02.0250a. Bread has its own page.
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coffee pot, silver gilt and niello with ebony? Moscow 1777, MAAB. For another view see MAAB.
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crutches: Bonaventura Berlinghieri 1235, St. Francis, which has its own page. See also stools for hand crutches/begging stools
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dipper: Saint Florian, linden wood, Austria c.1475-1500, Cluny Cl.16803. For another view see Cluny.
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ear pick w. animal interlace, bronze? c.950, Lejre
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Faucet with peacock spigot and lion-headed spout (poss. fr. fountain), bronze, 12th-c. Iran, UMMA 1959/1.114
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fire dogs: cat, bronze, 13th-15th c.? western Europe, Hermitage. For companion dog see Hermitage.
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fork (held by demon center left): Last Judgment, enamel and gilt on copper, Winchester c.1150-60, V&A M.209-1925
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riveted *glasses, c.1300-50, WienMus
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grille: butterfly woman, cast bronze, René Lalique 1899-1900, KGM 1901.111. For other views see Berlin. For cooking grills see St. Lawrence.
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kettle: St. Vitus in a kettle of boiling oil, Tirol c.1490, SMBByz 8132. For other views see Berlin.
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couple, *key hook, bronze, France? 15th c., Pushkin. See also belt hook above.
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young man, *key hook, bronze, France? 15th c., Pushkin
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lawn mower: Bertozzi/Casoni 1997, Scegli il Paradiso, majolica, which has its own page, Imola
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linen press, oak, 17th c., Lille 2006.3.1 Hospice Comtesse, which has its own page with another view.
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Sami vetical *loom fr Olderdalen, Lyngen (north Norway), prob. 20th c., Bergen x. 135.00a
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manger: Virgin and Child base, 1334, Sens cathedral. This object has its own page.
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meat hook, spit: damned roasted on a spit, Last Judgment mosaic c.1240-1310, Baptistery of St. John, Florence. This work has its own pages.
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mortar, ceramic, 9th c., Chelles
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parasol: John the Baptist reproaches Herod and Herodias, mosaic c.1240-1310, Baptistery of St. John, Florence. This work has its own pages including Virtues with scepters.
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parasol: covered cup with allegory of Africa, zebu horn, circle of Georg Pfründt c.1680, KGM K 3429, which has its own page
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pot with handle: Daniel fed by Habakkuk, oak choir stalls, 1420, Roskilde cathedral, which has its own page
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salver: Crossing the Red Sea, enamel/copper, Jean de Court 1575-85, SF 48.2. For details see SF.
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Merovingian or Carolingian scissors from Rhenen, Leiden
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scissors, money bag. Biccherna with a friar of the Humiliati, Siena 1296, MFAB 3. MFAB biccherne have their own page.
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scissors, right: Joan van Noort/Jan van Noordt, Susanna and the Elders c.1660, Utrecht RMCC s75, loan from Instituut Collectie Nederland, Amsterdam, NK 1700
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skewer (center left, gluttons in Hell): Cappella Strozzi di Mantova, Florence, Nardo di Cione 1354-57, which has its own page
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smoothing board? 9th-10th c. whalebone, fr. Grytøy, Trondenes, Bergen
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spit: portal from Hylestad stave church, late 12th-early 13th c., OHM C4321, which has its own page; and see above for spit with meat hook
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sponge (against cross on right): Man of Sorrows w. instruments Passion, Niccolo di Pietro Gerini c.1405-06, tempera/panel fr Santissima Annunziata, Florence: Arezzo MS
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sponge (on reed, left): Man of Sorrows from St. Nicholas church in Brzeg (Brieg), Wrocław 1443, paint on larch wood, MNW Śr. 343. This work has its own page. For more sponges see Crucifixion in the Christianity index
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spoon with predator head and quadruped on bowl, bone, 6th-5th c. BCE South Urals nomads, MSHM
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silver spoons, c.250-300, top: Morgan 2012.2:1; bottom: Gaul, Morgan 2012.2:2
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tally stick fr. behind Jewish houses, wood, London, late 13th c., MoL MLK76[3061]<327>
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trough: Jacob: Baptistery, cathedral of Padua, 1376 frescoes: Giusto de' Menabuoi. This work has its own pages.
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water strainer with epigraphic design, ceramic, 10th c. Fustat, Egypt, KM 1971.01.0021
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water strainer with peacock, ceramic, Fatimid Egypt 909-1171, KM 1971.01.0013
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writing tablets: book of wood/wax tablets w. Greek school exercises, Byzantine Egypt 4th-5th c., SMB EgMP P14000. For profile view see Berlin.
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writing tablets: Cathedra of Maximian, ivory, 546-56, RavArchMus, which has its own page
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writing tablets: Carolingian wooden diptych from Dorestad, Leiden. For other views see Leiden.
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