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Historical Archive: Household, Hospitality, Personal, and Cooking items, and Commercial tools This list is alphabetical, not chronological. It includes both surviving examples and representations. See also items listed individually in the indices of object types and objects depicted ashtray: René Lalique, glass with rabbit c.1919-30, UMMA 1972/2.229. For another view see UMMA. belt hook (clavendier): silver, silver gilt, and enamel, Netherlands late 14th c., CMA 1977.28. See also key hooks below. bread: Eucharistic bread, Early Byzantine Egypt, KM 1971.02.0250a. Bread has its own page. coffee pot, silver gilt and niello with ebony? Moscow 1777, MAAB. For another view see MAAB. crutches: Bonaventura Berlinghieri 1235, St. Francis, which has its own page. See also stools for hand crutches/begging stools dipper: Saint Florian, linden wood, Austria c.1475-1500, Cluny Cl.16803. For another view see Cluny. ear pick w. animal interlace, bronze? c.950, Lejre Faucet with peacock spigot and lion-headed spout (poss. fr. fountain), bronze, 12th-c. Iran, UMMA 1959/1.114 fire dogs: cat, bronze, 13th-15th c.? western Europe, Hermitage. For companion dog see Hermitage. fork (held by demon center left): Last Judgment, enamel and gilt on copper, Winchester c.1150-60, V&A M.209-1925 riveted *glasses, c.1300-50, WienMus grille: butterfly woman, cast bronze, René Lalique 1899-1900, KGM 1901.111. For other views see Berlin. For cooking grills see St. Lawrence. kettle: St. Vitus in a kettle of boiling oil, Tirol c.1490, SMBByz 8132. For other views see Berlin. couple, *key hook, bronze, France? 15th c., Pushkin. See also belt hook above. young man, *key hook, bronze, France? 15th c., Pushkin lawn mower: Bertozzi/Casoni 1997, Scegli il Paradiso, majolica, which has its own page, Imola linen press, oak, 17th c., Lille 2006.3.1 Hospice Comtesse, which has its own page with another view. Sami vetical *loom fr Olderdalen, Lyngen (north Norway), prob. 20th c., Bergen x. 135.00a manger: Virgin and Child base, 1334, Sens cathedral. This object has its own page. meat hook, spit: damned roasted on a spit, Last Judgment mosaic c.1240-1310, Baptistery of St. John, Florence. This work has its own pages. mortar, ceramic, 9th c., Chelles parasol: John the Baptist reproaches Herod and Herodias, mosaic c.1240-1310, Baptistery of St. John, Florence. This work has its own pages including Virtues with scepters. parasol: covered cup with allegory of Africa, zebu horn, circle of Georg Pfründt c.1680, KGM K 3429, which has its own page pot with handle: Daniel fed by Habakkuk, oak choir stalls, 1420, Roskilde cathedral, which has its own page salver: Crossing the Red Sea, enamel/copper, Jean de Court 1575-85, SF 48.2. For details see SF. Merovingian or Carolingian scissors from Rhenen, Leiden scissors, money bag. Biccherna with a friar of the Humiliati, Siena 1296, MFAB 3. MFAB biccherne have their own page. scissors, right: Joan van Noort/Jan van Noordt, Susanna and the Elders c.1660, Utrecht RMCC s75, loan from Instituut Collectie Nederland, Amsterdam, NK 1700 skewer (center left, gluttons in Hell): Cappella Strozzi di Mantova, Florence, Nardo di Cione 1354-57, which has its own page smoothing board? 9th-10th c. whalebone, fr. Grytøy, Trondenes, Bergen spit: portal from Hylestad stave church, late 12th-early 13th c., OHM C4321, which has its own page; and see above for spit with meat hook sponge (against cross on right): Man of Sorrows w. instruments Passion, Niccolo di Pietro Gerini c.1405-06, tempera/panel fr Santissima Annunziata, Florence: Arezzo MS sponge (on reed, left): Man of Sorrows from St. Nicholas church in Brzeg (Brieg), Wrocław 1443, paint on larch wood, MNW Śr. 343. This work has its own page. For more sponges see Crucifixion in the Christianity index spoon with predator head and quadruped on bowl, bone, 6th-5th c. BCE South Urals nomads, MSHM silver spoons, c.250-300, top: Morgan 2012.2:1; bottom: Gaul, Morgan 2012.2:2 tally stick fr. behind Jewish houses, wood, London, late 13th c., MoL MLK76[3061]<327> trough: Jacob: Baptistery, cathedral of Padua, 1376 frescoes: Giusto de' Menabuoi. This work has its own pages. water strainer with epigraphic design, ceramic, 10th c. Fustat, Egypt, KM 1971.01.0021 water strainer with peacock, ceramic, Fatimid Egypt 909-1171, KM 1971.01.0013 writing tablets: book of wood/wax tablets w. Greek school exercises, Byzantine Egypt 4th-5th c., SMB EgMP P14000. For profile view see Berlin. writing tablets: Cathedra of Maximian, ivory, 546-56, RavArchMus, which has its own page writing tablets: Carolingian wooden diptych from Dorestad, Leiden. For other views see Leiden.