Word: workmanship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...piece went on exhibition at the American Museum. Found 22 years ago by a U. S. engineer, now dead, during excavation work on a Mexican dam. it was bought and presented to the Museum by Mrs. Payne Whitney, Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson and John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. Similar in workmanship to the axehead, it is called a Tenth Century tiger, representing the god Tezcatlipoca of the little-known Olmec people who once lived in the states of Vera Cruz, Oaxaca and Tabasco and are sometimes cited as the first users of rubber. The tiger looks more like a pale green...
...Agreed that the U. S. S. Akron showed no poor workmanship or faulty materials...
...force of statement and finish of workmanship are not to be matched anywhere in present day caricature. . . . One wonders why this should be, and one wonders also if the showing of Nast's work in a museum may not key up our draughtsmen to bolder expression. It certainly will key up the collectors...
...Warburg '20, noted collector and connaisseur, has loaned three tapestries from the "Credo" series, of which only 15 items are known to be in existence, one in the Fine Arts Museum of Boston. They date from the late Fifteenth Century, and are of the best type of Flemmish workmanship...
...actual, original cup is a common silver vessel of poor and crude workmanship. The rim is broken in places, as if fragments had been removed as keepsakes. It is contained in an outer shell, whose workmanship establishes the antiquity of the Chalice and is the basis of the theory that the cup used by Christ and his disciples at the Last Supper was preserved and, perhaps several years after the Supper, fittingly decorated. The outer shell is a sheathing of elaborately sculptured silver, its gilded decorations carved in an openwork known in ancient times as opus interrasile...