The frieze contains Egyptian priests and priestesses, also on a blue ground, with their faces turned toward the vessel (Fig.
In the panels thus outlined, figures of all kinds stand out in white relief on a bright red or blue ground.
In the gable, above the entrance, is a vase, standing out from a blue ground, with a kneeling figure on either side.
I cut down a tree containing a nest and broke all the eggs, which must have been very pretty--blue ground, very regularly marked with purplish-brown spots.
They lay from two to four eggs, of a pale verditer-blue ground, speckled and spotted pretty boldly with brownish red.
This flower as it appears relieved on a blue ground in the later mosque lamps is identical in drawing with the lotus that we see so frequently in Indian and Chinese art.
In centre a shield with oak tree, green and gold on blue ground.
On this property is founded the practice of giving a blue ground to black cloths, which acquire more beauty and solidity the deeper the blue.
These appear as demi-figures, very richly robed, in strong relief against a pale purplish-blue ground of the atmospheric quality peculiar to the period.
By the combination of these two processes three tints may be obtained, or even four upon the same piece of glass--say white, green, and yellow all upon a blue ground.
The Swedish flag is a yellow cross on a blue ground.
This had the cross of St George in the first and fourth quarters, the cross of St Andrew, a white saltire on a blue ground, in the second, and the Irish harp in the third.
Since that time the white saltire cross, upon a blue ground, the banner of St. Andrew, has been carried by the Scots as their national ensign.
The insignia of eight nations bear the Greek cross of the St. George shape, but in four different colours on grounds of three different colours: Greece a white cross on a blue ground.
So also they have transposed the colours on their St. Andrew's flag to be a blue cross on a white ground instead of a white cross on a blue groundas on the Scottish flag.
The form of his cross is that known as the Greek Cross, the four arms being at right angles to each other, and in this form is displayed in the upper corner of the national Greek ensign, in this case as a white cross on a blue ground.
Further, the ilmenite, which is the most characteristic associate of the diamond in blue ground, and other of the accompanying minerals, may have come from basic rocks of a different nature.
It seems therefore that a holocrystalline pyroxene-garnet rock may be one source of the diamond found in blue ground.
The piece is clearly Persian in style, black arabesques on a blue ground, similar to others found at Rhages.
A plate belonging to Signor Castellani has a blue ground in the centre, on which a coat-of-arms is laid in yellow, and the broad border of pale gray finishes with a rim of green and yellow.
The earlier Gubbio wares generally have a pale-blue ground, with grotesques and scrolls terminating in animals' heads, and mingled occasionally with cherubs' heads.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blue ground" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
