Términos

Works comprising designs of scenes painted on pottery, which includes various objects made of hard, brittle, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant materials.

Refers to a tall stand designed to support vessels with rounded bases. It is composed of an upper platform to hold the vessel and a supporting lower foot. In Korea, such stands were mainly produced in the Baekje, Silla, and Gaya Confederacy during the Three Kingdoms Period, usually from high-fired or low-fired earthenware. The legs were often decorated with openwork or incised designs. These stands were not intended for everyday use but were employed in ritual contexts as offering vessels.

Recipiente ritual chino de bronce en forma de vaso utilizado para mantener el vino. Apareció entre los Erligang y el período de Anyang.

In Maori architecture, the first of three upright posts that support the tāhuhu (ridge pole) of a large whare tupuna (ancestral house) or whare runanga (tribal council house), providing structural stability and supporting the roof. They usually incorporate carved figures, often a significant ancestor of the tribe. When seen in museums today, the figures have usually been sawn off the pole.

General term referring to domestic birds, including chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, etc., which are raised for their flesh, eggs, or feathers, but usually excluding wild game birds.

General term for greenstone found on South Island, New Zealand. The term refers to any of three different types of stone: nephrite, bowenite, and serpentinite. Maori do not classify pounamu by geological origin, but by appearance according to color, markings, and translucency. There are many local names for different pounamu, but four main varieties are widely recognized: inanga, kahurangi, kawakawa, and tangiwai.

Stencils made of a relatively thin material, usually paper, onto which a linear design is drawn or printed, and holes pricked along the outlines to allow transfer of the design by applying a powder, also called "pounce," onto a surface beneath.

The standard unit of currency of the United Kingdom.

In avoirdupois measure, standardized units of weight and mass equal to 16 ounces (7000 grains, exactly 0.45359237 kg). The pound was originally made up of 12 ounces, as in the system of troy weight which is still used in stating the weight of precious metals.

Doctrina adoptada por ciertos pintores franceses del siglo XVIII enfatizando la importancia de la línea por sobre el color.

General name for many species belonging to three separate families of insects that have in common larvae that feed on and tunnel through seasoned wood, including furniture, wood floors, structural timbers, and lumber piles, often destroying the item. The name refers to the fact that the wood is converted to a fine powder.

Casters of metal, glass, or porcelain, having finely pierced or meshed openings, intended for sprinkling powdered sugar.

The act or process of reducing to powder, pulverization; in conservation science context refers to granular disintegration of stone and pigments.

The property of strength, influence, and dominance over others, which can be personal, political, or national.

Communities of any size that are the location for the production of electricity.

Piedra grande sobre la que descansa momentáneamente un féretro en la entrada de un cementerio.

Elementos tipo pasajes o espacios encerrados verticales en un edificio.