Many are by unknown craftsmen, like the smoothly carved wooden head of a boxer with brown glass eyes and the functional dog-shaped bench in the form of a wooden slab with branches that have been turned into legs (Johnson).
The earliest mosaics, works of art of many unknown Venetian craftsmen (including probably Cimabue), date from 1225.
Below the relief carving on the monument, an unknown craftsman carved the mysterious eight letters, contained within the letters 'D M'.
Carved by an unknown 18th-century craftsman, this has been called one of the world's top uncracked ciphertexts.
Yanagi Sōetsu discovered beauty in everyday ordinary and utilitarian objects created by nameless and unknown craftsmen.
The Magdalen Reading was transferred to a mahogany panel (West Indian swietenia) by unknown craftsmen sometime between 1828 and when the National Gallery acquired it in 1860.
They are eloquent talismans that bear the hand workmanship of their unknown craftsmen and served to inspire and comfort early settlers to New Spain.
Because of his training at Tokyo College of Arts, his father, Yoshiga Taibi, now in his 70's, was always a ceramic artist rather than the "unknown craftsman" celebrated by folk art enthusiasts.
It is not what I thought my work would ever be about when I tried to live like the unknown craftsman in a hamlet in France, or a hillside in Tasmania.
Griff picked up the wood and leather saddle, admired once again the handiwork of the unknown craftsman then positioned it on the back of his horse.