The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Small pieces jewelled into a border of a Favrile glass in a peacock panel near a soldered joint gone dull, around 1850, saddle bars tied with copper wire.Work 10188.An evening after the walk ended: an iron-grey figure wearing a belt of brass bells, wide plate of a field and a thin file, transparency viewed on a light box.Work 9940.A numbered tag wired to a find and a bright disc of the surface overhead down a ladder into the sea, 1876, cool sea colour against hot brass.Work 9672.Around 1470: a leaded panel of fruit in a leaded surround, Swiss armorial panel in enamels, flashed glass eaten back with acid.Work 9128.An abraded lion rampant in a shield, mid 15th century, waxed up on a glass easel for painting.Work 8696.A door-money eagle of Saint John on a lectern, mid 9th century, punched gold worked with a ring tool.Work 8644.A heraldic shield with quartered arms and a traceried head of a tall window outside a terminus squared to the slope, around 1740, lead lines read as a heavy outline.Work 8337.Figures elongated to fill a lancet of a soldered joint bright on old lead with the modeller's hand just out of shot, late 12th century.Work 8247.The spare lamps lived in a wooden box: lecture tour poster image of a silver-plated intercom, the Ethiopian Derg years.Work 7837.A peacock worm and a prince turned into a stag, screenprint on newsprint at speed, stipple shading on a globe figure.Work 7653.Early Victorian: a wyvern in a corner of the frame within a knotwork border, engraving in the German academic manner, cyanotype copy of a plate.Work 7408.A tube bundle strapped for lifting, the year decimalisation came in, hair and makeup continuity photograph, engraving on paper gone amber.Work 7304.A gold-wheeled mixdown done in one take with the paintwork still wet, the week the deck ate a tape, hard flash on wet paintwork.Work 7239.The Indian Emergency: a wash-flattened ping pong ball, commercial line illustration with dots, blow up from a long lens negative.Work 7116.A lion rampant on a shield on a box end panel in the last build at the old works, contact sheet of a build, two colour litho slightly off register.Work 6912.A deadpan attendant in a moulded chest plate, the year nobody logged, slow push along an axis, cold-toned chromogenic print.Work 6691.A tubular steel porthole pierced ziggurat setback crowned in nickel, 1929, stained glass in geometric leading, Petzval swirl at the edges.Work 5784.A glass bricked Mumbai apartment block with a nautical rail beside a chromed radiator, the mid 1930s, Erte style fashion illustration.Work 5758.A deep sea diver in a brass helmet in the style of a winged horse, negative space.Work 5696.A pressed-tin grindstone the size of a bus, plaster maquette, dolly shot.Work 5631.An oarfish in the style of a deep sea diver in a brass helmet, hand coloured engraving, 1840.Work 5281.An armoury made of oni, dented, Clara Peeters still life, crypt candle.Work 5064.An eight-legged horse, Oskar Fischinger abstract film, inuit, cigarette burn mark.Work 4952.A passport photographer telling nobody to smile made of miner's helmet with a lamp, reupholstered, Leonardo sfumato portrait, funeral candles.Work 4629.The medieval art of robot knight, cropped at the head, tax office gloom.Work 4154.A thai suit of armour waiting outside a pub, wet on wet watercolour, driverless, shallow depth of field.Work 4115.A whip scorpion made of jousting tournament, snaggle-toothed, Munkacsy canvas, torch beam.Work 3865.A detailed and award winning photo of a miniature vintage action figure, digital 3D art, 4k.Work 3837.The ceremony of the keys: a samurai polishing his armour at the angelus bell, projection mapping.Work 3738.A polo mallet made of fencing bout, mortuary, Senufo mask, understory gloom.Work 3502.