Decorating Collection (page 2)

Piped Flower Samples Date: 1935

A PAINTER AND DECORATOR
A French painter wearing a cap and smock at work decorating panels on the walls of a building Date: 1890s

PUTTING CANDLES ON TREE
A woman puts the final touches to a Christmas tree by decorating it with lit candles. Date: 1950s

DIY / PAINTING A WALL
A close-up shot of painting a wall with emulsion using a large paint brush Date: 1950s

Christmas decorations: decorating the hall, 1877
Four girls decorate the hall of their home with enough greenery to start a flower shop. Date: 1877

Christmas decorations: girl and wreath
A lady hangs a Christmas wreath. Date: 1926

Mecca. Angels decorating the Kaba at the birth of prophet Muhammad. Miniature. Book of Sufti Abdullah, master painter at the court of the Sultan Murad III, 1595. Topkapi Museum. Istanbul. Turkey

The Graphic Christmas Number 1921 front cover
Striking front cover design for The Graphic Christmas number 1921 featuring a little girl in a red dress decorating an enormous Christmas tree and holding a Harlequin doll in the air. Date: 1921

Angel and Tree
An angel admires a tree which, though out in the woods, is none the less decked with candles and dingle-dangles

Egypt. Funerary stela of wood. Luxor, Late Period, 650-640 B
Egyptian art. Egypt. Baba, daughter of the priest of Amun Bes-n-Mut, praying to the sun gods Atum (left) and Re-Harakhte. Funerary stela of wood. Luxor, Late Period, 650-640 BC

Hungarian Wedding Cake
These Hungarian peasant women in traditional headscarves are decorating a wedding cake with painted gingerbread swords, hearts and edible babies. Date: 1930s

Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1887
Front cover of The Illustrated London News Christmas Number for 1887 with a lady decorating her house with garlands of greenery. Date: 1887

Poster design, Agent for Robbialac Paints -- buy them where you see this sign. Featuring a cartoon-style woman with a paintbrush, and a tin of paint

Design for textile or wallpaper in blue and cream. Gouache on copy paper with ruled lines. Silver Studio. circa 1900

A Colourmans Shop, London, 1829 by George Scharf
The shop of a colourman, Mr Allen, brightly painted in green. Colourmen would grind pigments and mix paint colours. Examples of pots of colours are displayed in the window

Merriecolour curtains advertisement, 1950s
Advertisement for Grafton Merricolour fabrics featuring a woman looking out of a window as her jolly Merricolour curtains flap in the breeze. 1950s

Pammastic emulsion paint advertisement
Advertisement for Pammastic emulsion paint transforming the interiors of Britains homes into bright, jolly retro delights! c.1955

Archduke Karl Franz Josef of Austria with soldiers, WW1
Archduke Karl Franz Josef of Austria (1887-1922), future Emperor of Austria (Charles I of Austria, 1916-1918). Seen here in Schonpasse()

Kaiser Wilhelm II presenting medals, Tarnopol, WW1
Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), German Emperor, presenting Iron Crosses to troops on the day when Tarnopol (Galicia, Eastern Europe) was captured by the Austro-German Army during the First World War

Zulu wars. Queen Victoria decorating officers engaged in the
Queen Victoria decorating Lieutenant John Rouse Merriott Chard with the Victoria Cross for bravery. Chard was one of the officers who successfully defended Rorkes Drift from an army of Zulu warriors

Christmas Decorating
Two girls decorate their home with holly

Christmas Eve by Charles Robinson
The Childs Christmas by Charles Robinson, with text by Evelyn Sharp. Printed by Blackie and Son Limited. Illustration showing two children hanging up decorations on Christmas Eve. Date: 1906

Christmas Morning - Decorating the Signboard. circa late 19th century

The Fan Painter - Japan. Date: 1905

Japanese Ceramic Artist decorating a large vase
An effective and unusual postcard illustration depictng a Japanese Ceramic Artist decorating a large vase. Date: circa 1920s

French Trade Show - Algerian Ceramics of E Soupireau on display. One wonders whether the fine gentleman on the left is Monsieur Soupireau himself

London Trade Card - Matthias Darly, Paper Hangings
London Trade Card - Matthias Darly, Manufactory for Paper Hangings, painter, engraver and paper stainer, wholesale and retail, at the Acorn, facing Hungerford, Strand

Advert for Aspinalls Enamel 1890
Aspinalls Enamel, paint for artist and decorators. 1890

The Angry Painters by H. M. Bateman
Two painters get into a fight and decorate a clients house in a rather radical fashion. Date: 1929

Fine Decorative Hand Painting on Belleek China, Belleek Potteries - an interior shot showing a group of men decorating chinaware. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Fermanagh: Belleek)

Method Employed in Colour Decoration of Plate Rims, Belleek Potteries - an interior shot showing a woman decorating a plate rim. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Fermanagh: Belleek)

Decorating Pottery By Transfer Designs, Belleek Potteries - an interior shot showing women working at transfer designs for chinaware. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Fermanagh: Belleek)

Portugal. Evora. Chapel of Bones. Church of St. Francis. Wal
Portugal. Evora. Chapel of Bones. Chapel located next to the entrance of the Church of St. Francis. The interior walls are covered with human skulls and bones.16th century

Iran. Kerman. The Ganjali Khan Complex. 17th century. Safavi
Iran. Kerman. The Ganjali Khan Complex. 17th century. Is a Safavid-era building complex. Is composed of a school, a square, a caravanserai, a bathhouse, an Ab Anbar (water reservoir), a mint

Arabic calligraphy. Detail disk. Decoration. Muradiye Mosque
Arabic calligraphy. Detail disk.. Muradiye Mosque. Bursa. Turkey

Greek art. Magna Graecia. Amphorae decorated. National Museum of Denmark

The Gundestrup cauldron. Silver vessel. 200 BC and 300 AD. E
The Gundestrup cauldron. Decorated silver vessel, thought to date between 200 BC and 300 AD, placing it within the late La T?ne period or early Roman Iron Age

Golden vessels. Denmark. The Late Bronze Age. 800-400 BC. Na
Prehistoric. Art. Metal Age. Northern Europe. Golden vessels. Decorated with geometric patterns. Denmark. The Late Bronze Age. 800-400 BC. National Museum of Denmark

Bronze Age. Belt ornaments, arm rings, a neck ring. Fardal
Prehistory. Art. Metal Age. Bronze Age. Belt ornaments, arm rings, a neck ring. from a gravel hill at Fardal, central Jutland. 900-700 BC. National Museum of Denmark

Christmas card, Dressing the Christmas Tree (front). (2 of 2) 20th century

Japan - Paper worker - Making parasols and lanterns. Date: circa 1910s

Lanterns and Flags decorating Hamano-machi, Nagasaki, Japan
Lanterns and Flags decorating Street in Hamano-machi, Nagasaki, Japan. Today, the Hamanomachi Arcade is main shopping area in Nagasaki city Date: circa 1910s

Lorenz Durnhofer
LORENZ DURNHOFER German churchman, theologian and writer. The insects decorating his portrait may mean something, perhaps ? Date: 1532 - 1594

Window Curtain 1800
Decorating scheme for window curtains in a noble home. Date: 1800

Ordnance Column
A colossal column built from French ordnance with wheeled cannon decorating each tier Date: circa 1815

Woman Painting a Chair
A lady wearing an apron painting a chair. 1928

French Glazier-Decorator
A French decorator wearing a paint-splashed apron Date: 1850

Painters & Plasterers
Painters and plasterers at work Date: 1803

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping