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  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: Chinese exhibits: decorative furniture, ornaments and models. Photograph, 1904.
  • A red-figured Greek wine bowl (volute krater) also called "the Hamilton Vase", decorated with figures of men and women around a stele; volutes ornamented with female heads. Watercolour by A. Dahlsteen, 176- (?).
  • An Indian woman wearing an elaborate headscarf and pierced ear ornament hands a condom to a man in front of a door within a decorative leaf border; an advertisement for Nirodh condoms as a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by NGO-AIDS Cell, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS. Colour lithograph for Unesco/Aidthi Workshop, March 1995.
  • The manufacture and use of carton-pierre and papier-mache: floral and heraldic decorative panels, the whole lettered and numbered for a key. Engraving by Le Canu after L.J. Goussier.
  • Architecture: decorative ironwork. Lithograph by Kell Bros., after W. White.
  • An ornate stone frame in which four atlantes support an entablature on which a scholar and Hercules support the globe of the earth. Engraving, 1569.
  • An ornate vase and pedestal with a bullfight carved on the side, in a classical garden. Etching by J. Schynvoet, c. 1701, after S. Schynvoet.
  • Inlayers' workshop: inlaying of various designs on snuff-boxes, and a selection of boring tools used. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • Cabinet-making: designs for a sideboard. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
  • Cabinet-making: decorative architectural elements. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
  • Cabinet-making: design for a bed. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
  • Cabinet-making: decorative architectural elements. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
  • Cabinet-making: designs for a sideboard. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
  • Cabinet-making: designs for a cupboard. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
  • Cabinet-making: designs for a chair. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
  • Cabinet-making: designs for a tall cupboard. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
  • Cabinet-making: designs for a cupboard. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
  • Cabinet-making: design for a cupboard, plan, elevations, and section. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
  • Cabinet-making: designs for a table. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
  • Cabinet-making: designs for a bureau. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
  • Cabinet-making: designs for a roll-top bureau. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
  • Cabinet-making: decorative architectural elements. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
  • Carved stone doorway at Baalbec. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1843.
  • Cabinet-making: designs for a sideboard. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
  • Cabinet-making: decorative architectural elements. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
  • Cabinet-making: designs for a sideboard. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
  • Cabinet-making: designs for a cupboard. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
  • Cabinet-making: designs for a bureau. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
  • Cabinet-making: designs for a lady's dressing-table. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.
  • Cabinet-making: decorative architectural elements. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.