Nevertheless, her possessions reflect both a good eye and a rich family history, starting with an elaborately crafted French clock, circa 1800, that came from one of her grandfathers.
Mr. Neff was peering inside Volume III of his five-volume-and-counting "Angling in Hibernia," an elaborately crafted homage to Irish trout, as the work was being prepared for display at the American Museum of Natural History.
Impasto came into its own in the 17th century, when such Baroque painters as Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Diego Velázquez used skillfully and minutely worked impastos to depict lined and wrinkled skin or the sparkle of elaborately crafted armour, jewelry, and rich fabrics.
Catherine's encouragement of Russian skills and industry, often brought about through importing foreign craftsmen, is also apparent; there are gorgeous examples of the elaborately crafted steel furniture made at the Tula factory, tapestries and the vases and obelisks that were created from the newly discovered minerals of agate, quartz and carnelian.
It is still used by contemporary artists., a technique in which paint is applied to a canvas or panel in quantities that make it stand out from the surface, was used with great skill by painters such as Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Diego Velázquez, who used the technique to depict lined and wrinkled skin or the sparkle of elaborately crafted armor, jewelry, and rich fabrics.
The totem poles these tribes are known for served as elaborately crafted advertisements for each tribe's prosperity — and hence the chief's ability to "cause great works to be done".
And some models of the game are so elaborately designed and well crafted, they blur the line between gaming and art.
But many of them have elaborately decorated tombstones, some of them crafted by stone-carvers in Pakistan.
The most luxurious of Arts and Crafts objects - silver, jewellery, elaborately hand-crafted women's gowns - have a sophistication that is essentially urban.
