It was largely employed in Roman work, and the single guilloche is found almost universally as a border in mosaic pavements, not only in Italy but throughout Europe.
The best example of the tripleguilloche is that which is carved on the torus moulding of the base and on the small convex moulding above the echinus of the capitals of the columns of the Erechtheum at Athens.
This guilloche is of Asiatic origin and was largely employed in the decoration of the Assyrian palaces, where it was probably copied from Chaldaean work, as there is an early example at Erech which dates from the time of Gudea (2294 B.
From the talk of to-day it appears that Messieurs Jean deGuilloche and Pierre de Sevyn were killed as belonging to the new religion.
Guilloche Jean de, a Protestant member of the Parliament of Bordeaux, killed, ii.
In one case the effect of the guilloche is given in the same manner.
Here the guilloche is enlarged to form a panel ornament, and the acanthus becomes a long fern frond to ornament the uprights.
Burton says:[53] The Svastika is apparently the simplest form of the Guilloche [scroll pattern or spiral].
IX), the most complicated form of the Guilloche covered an Egyptian ceiling upward of a thousand years older than the objects found at Nineveh.
The centre contains a frieze in high relief, representing combats between men and lions, and a smaller border of gazelles, between guilloche bands, encircling an embossed star.
It is frequently encircled by a short inscription, which has not yet been deciphered, or by a simple guilloche border.
Above his head is a kind of fringed pavilion and part of an inscription, which appears to have contained his name; beneath him is the Assyrian guilloche border.
A scorpion, surrounded by a guilloche border (a device of very frequent occurrence, and probably astronomical).
Each frieze is separated by a band ofguilloche ornament.
An ornament known as theguilloche is found in many countries.
Plate XX, and a horizontal band of guillochepattern with pellets in relief.
Between the slits are vertical bands of guilloche pattern with raised edges, similar to those represented on the stem and top of the mancala board, Fig.
The sides are ornamented with interlaced strap-work, and the stem and the edge of the base with varieties of guilloche pattern.
The skirt is ornamented with conventionalized human heads with long hair and rows of guilloche pattern.
The middle of the staff is ornamented by curious nondescript figures alternating with balls, and the lower end has an oblong butt ornamented on the four sides with guilloche pattern, like that of the crotals on the upper end.
The edges of the object are ornamented with a band of plain guilloche pattern incised.
Each panel has a circle with radiating lines, bounded by lines of guilloche pattern.
Band of guilloche pattern on skirt-rings for pendants (?
Quadrangular bronze bell, ornamented on three sides with open reticulated work, framed in by a border of the guilloche pattern.
The ornamentation on the top consists of squares and triangles filled with parallel straight lines alternating in direction, and edged with a circle of broken guilloche pattern.
The skirt only slightly tucked up on left side, ornamented with a guilloche pattern of two bands.
On this tusk the interlaced pattern is the prevailing ornament, and it passes into the guilloche pattern.
Around the centre is a band of broken guilloche pattern, forming a transitional link between the guilloche, and a peculiar floral ornament common to Benin art.
Lower portion of an iron staff, surrounded by bands of brass, ornamented with leopards' heads, frogs, looped strands and guilloche pattern.
The guilloche pattern has been found in Egypt on pottery dated to the Twelfth Dynasty (2700 B.
I mean by the slipping of the elements of the design, with the result that a guilloche is arrived at.
The patterns are a guillocheborder with fishes, enclosing a field of plant sprigs, and a lotus border with a more conventional pattern within.
It has a scroll pattern up the jambs and across the lintel, with the characteristic triple furrowing, and above the lintel a palmette cornice; on the reveal is a twisted guilloche treated in the same manner.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "guilloche" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
