On the floor, antique vessels, mostly water jugs and decanters, seem to wait and watch, as another suspended container pours out its imaginary contents.
These antique vessels of timber and canvas sail cloth function similarly to their "soft water" counterparts, and there is some shared terminology, but the boats themselves look nothing alike.
His subjects are antique vessels (a silvered glass cup, a brass coffeepot, several ceramic and enamelled pitchers) all showing signs of use, most seen in splendid isolation; they can be read as modest self-portraits.
The storm would seem like a good excuse as any for the City Museum to wash its hands of the project, whose financial challenges include a decade of back rent and utilities payments owed to the city's Economic Development Corporation and the cost of maintaining a fleet of 11 antique vessels.
From piers and decks, rooftops and shoreside restaurants, from apartment living rooms and from lampposts and the hoods of strategically parked cars, the crowds watched the antique vessels drift by with a speed and courtliness seemingly drawn from a distant, gentler age.
Late antique metal vessels in the Carpathian Basin : luxury and power in the Early Middle Ages / Tivadar Vida.
At other moments rocking horses plunge through the thick pile of a white carpet as if through deep snow; a little man riding an elephant ambles through, as if traversing a vast landscape; and antique sailing vessels navigate waters lapping the ends of rolled-up rugs.
Typical of what is considered of Qianlong date are vases with lids and chains carved from a single block, vessels in antique bronze shapes with pseudo-archaic decoration, fairy mountains, and brush pots for the scholar's desk.
A show and sale of antique and contemporary ceramic vessels, platters, figures and sculpture, today through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday, noon to 6 p.m. Admission is $15.
The unidentified seller inherited the 26-inch high vessel from his antique dealer great aunt Florence in 1978.
