Historical Examples. 1  When he heard the drums he flared up like a spark in the tinder. 2  It's yersel' knows the tinder feet that's on me since ever I 've bin in this counthry. 3  You see I have the tinder now safely secured in my tinder-box. 4  I want one of these sparks, if I can persuade it to do so, to fall on my tinder. The Story of a Tinder-box Charles Meymott Tidy Here is the flint, the tinder being contained in this little box.
The signature is reproduced in black paint. Fountain has been seen as a quintessential example, along with Duchampâs Bottle Rack 1914, of what he called a â readymade â, an ordinary manufactured object designated by the artist as a work of art (and, in Duchampâs case, interpreted in some way).
The exhibition Famille Verte is about a very special kind of Chinese porcelain. Simply put, famille verte (c.1680-1725) wares are extraordinarily fine and beautiful objects.The colourful decorations of flowers, butterflies, mythical animals or Chinese figural scenes are rendered in painstaking detail.s a new, modern type of ware, famille verte enjoyed a widespread appeal and was produced for the domestic Chinese market as well as for export to Europe. Nowadays, famille verte can be found in museums, country houses, palaces and private collections all over Europe and the USA.