Myres found at Kamarais in 1894 a series of fragments of painted pottery with designs in opaque colours on a black ground, which he regarded as pre-Mycenaean.
The typical Florentine work, in which white lines are cut out from a black ground, as well as black lines from a white, appears in the Tractato ouero Sermone della oratione, finished by Mischomini on October 20th.
Three distinct borders are used in these books, all of them with light and graceful floral patterns in relief on a black ground.
To the Gregorii we also owe the magnificent border, in white relief on a black ground, to the Latin Herodotus of 1494, repeated again in the second volume of the works of S.
Curiously enough, the ornamental border of white figures on a black ground is certainly better cut than the pictures themselves.
Others have similar drawing white with black ground, only the green glaze was carried all over the piece, so that whilst the ground remained black the decoration was all coloured green.
There are different varieties of this marble: one kind in which the blotches or veins are pure black on a pure white ground, and another in which the blotches or veins are pure white on a black ground.
They were probably derived from some old Roman palace, and are remarkable for the clearness and brilliancy of the white blotches on a black ground.
They are ornamented with patterns reserved in white on black ground in the form of trailing leaves and tendrils, partly in the "pea-pod" style, and accompanied by lively genre figures in various attitudes.
The patterns, reserved in white upon a black ground, are composed of curves of flat and broken strapwork.
Henri, son of Jean Toutin, furnishes a couple of engravings for rings, of the year 1628, of which the whole outer surface of the hoop is covered with designs reserved in white on a black ground.
When a black ground is desired, with white figures, the acid discharge paste should be printed-on by the cylinder, and dried before the piece is padded in the iron liquor.
In Ireland, the Kilkenny marble is the one best known, having a black ground more or less varied with white marks produced by petrifactions.
The spores are ochraceous on a white ground, somewhat ferruginous on a black ground.
If the spores are light, they show best on black ground, and if colored, they show best on the light.
Spores= dark ferruginous on a white ground, paler on a black ground.
If we make this experiment with a white stripe on a black ground,[1] the two extremes will presently meet, and thus produce green.
In order, however, to make this experiment at once with the convex glass, let a smaller black disk be inserted within the light disk on a black ground.
If the flame be held before a white ground, no blue will be seen, but this colour will immediately appear if the flame is opposed to a black ground.
This screen is very beautifully decorated on both sides with incised and raised ornaments painted and gilt on black ground, with a rich border ornamented with representations of sacred symbols and various other objects.
Another lacquer has a black ground, on which landscapes delicately traced in gold stand out in charming relief.
In the centre are the tables of the ten commandments, gold-lettered upon a black ground.
But the bones hold tight, socket and ball, and clamping them down in the hard, black ground is the stake, wedged through ribs and spine.
He'll never walk with a bullet in his heart, and an ash stick nailing him to the cold, black ground.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "black ground" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
