Their current exhibition features multimedia performances through unexpected contemporary vessels such as videogames, Facebook and Chat Roulette.
Although most contemporary vessels had a single mast (histos or katartion), the larger bireme dromons probably needed at least two masts in order to manoeuvre effectively, assuming that a single lateen sail for a ship this size would have reached unmanageable dimensions.
Although other contemporary vessels like the American North Carolina-class battleships carried 40.6-cm main guns, the Bismarcks used 38-cm naval guns as the Germans had experience with them; a 40.6-cm weapon would have had to have been designed from scratch.
John Howard's creamware from the same period, invented by the early industrialist Josiah Wedgwood, copies the designs of contemporary silver vessels.
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.
If anything is even trickier than bagging beautiful contemporary glass vessels without forking out a penny, it is trying to acquire likewise glass sculptures and three-dimensional objects that have no utilitarian purpose.
The only known complete specimen of a fine white stoneware dating from about 1400 bce is decorated with chevrons (linked V-shapes) and a key-fret pattern, the shoulder motifs being reminiscent of those seen on contemporary bronze vessels.
The only known complete specimen of a fine white stoneware dating from about 1400 bce (Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C). is decorated with chevrons (linked V-shapes) and a key-fret pattern, the shoulder motifs being reminiscent of those seen on contemporary bronze vessels.
A pioneer of a new sound, a totem of contemporary Britain, a vessel of sharp charisma – all signs point to him being the next in a lineage of artists who seep into the foundation of music, stamping their tone across its fabric, irreversibly pushing it toward the future.
Yes, contemporary Tang dynasty vessels were making their way west along Asian trade routes and stirring up all kinds of creative competition.
