Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by process]
7. image-making equipment
8. [ink and paint preparation tools]

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment
4. Tools and Equipment
5. equipment
6. equipment by process
7. mixing tools and equipment
8. spatulas

Narrower term/s

• cauteria (spatula)
• cestrums

Anotations

Scope note:

Artists' implements having a flattened surface of various forms and made of various materials; used by painters and other artists, particularly as used to mix, spread, or transfer ink or paint, or for other purposes. For spatulas comprising blades of flexible metal used in creating art, usage overlaps with "palette knives (painting equipment)."