At Gezer, also, although the plaques of the goddess were fairly tough, all had been broken, and apparently with intention.
On the other hand, the animal-like attributes which appear upon some plaques of the mother-goddess are scarcely meaningless.
The plaques have borders with foliated ornaments, birds and animals, flowers and fruit, filling the spandrels.
I looked away to the fountain, letting my eyes dwell on its projecting roof and its fretwork of gold, its lustrous blue and green tiles, splendid ironwork, and plaques of gray and brown marble.
A pulpit of enamelled earthenware still exists, supported by a life-size figure of Moses, ornamented with eight plaques of religious subjects and figures of the four Evangelists, bearing the name of the potter and the date 1565.
Some of these are enriched with plaques of Sêvres porcelain, which treatment is better adapted to the more jewel-like mounting of this time than to the rococo style in vogue during the preceding reign.
Illustration: Cabinet in Satinwood, With Wedgwood plaques and inlay of various woods in the Adams' style.
With Plaquesof Sêvres China (In the Jones Collection, South Kensington Museum.
Illustration: Secretaire, In King and Tulip Wood, with Sêvres Plaques and Ormolu Mountings.
The plaques have borders with foliated ornaments, birds and animals; flowers and fruits filling the intermediate spaces.
The illustration on the following page is from an example in the same museum, shewing a different decoration, the oval plaques of figures and coats of arms being of carved ivory let into the surface of the coffer.
Josiah Wedgwood, too, turned his attention to the production of plaquesin relief, for adaptation to chimney pieces of this character.
A few pictures—two or three fruit pieces and one or two plaques of still life—are appropriate.
Munro thinks that the two plaques of Volosova may have been made for sale by knavish boys.
Munro leaves the Cevennes Andalusian, and Portuguese plaques out of his argument.
For these reasons I think the Volosova plaques as genuine as any other objects from that site, and corroborative, so far, of similar things from Clyde.
Egypt is a great centre of the Early Slate School of Art, the things ranging from slate plaques covered with disorderly scratchings "without a conscience or an aim," to highly decorated palettes.
Cartailhac recognises that the plain plaques of slate from sites in the Cevennes "are certainly analogous" with the plaques from the Casa da Moura, even when these are elaborately ornamented with vandyked and other patterns.
Two perforated stone plaques from Volosova, figured by Dr.
Characteristic of the first period are dishes and plaques in blue monochrome with somewhat overcrowded scenes of popular life in the style of the engravings of Goltzius.
About the same time, too, we find the first production of large plaques or slabs of porcelain on which copies of well-known pictures were painted in enamel colours.
The most famous productions of this factory, however, were the plaques and slabs of porcelain used for lining the walls of certain rooms in the royal palaces.
Plaques of Stone or Earthenware applied to Works of Furniture, 63, 64.
I am not fond of the application of plaques of stone or earthenware to works of furniture.
The slab is of Serpentine stone, with a brass cross inlaid, and there are alabasterplaques representing the Crucifixion, the Entombment, the Resurrection, and the Ascension.
We see it on the Gallo-Roman rings of the Museum of Namur, and on the plaques of the belt, dating from the same epoch, which form part of the magnificent collection of M.
In Scotland have been found necklaces of nerites and limpets; at Aurignac, eighteen little plaques of cockle shell pierced with holes in the centre.
Many and varied are the subjects which have been found engraved on plaques of ivory or on stone, and incised on bears' teeth or on stag horn.
The discovery of a bronze dagger and two bronze plaques leaves no doubt as to the age of this tumulus.
For even when the narrow opening left between the enlarged ends is closed by a bar, or is finally closed altogether, the flattened plaquesare ornamentally treated as if they were still disunited.
Small plaques enamelled and painted thus are popularly known by the name of "Louis Treize" enamels, though the majority of them were produced after Louis XIII's death in 1643.
Small plaques of "Louis Treize" enamel painted in natural colours on a monochrome ground were frequently employed for miniature-cases.
They were usually looped up at intervals with circular or oblong plaques of thin and coloured gold set with small turquoises and garnets.
Though generally composed of metal rings, men's chains, especially those worn by men of high rank, were occasionally composed of cylinders or plaques linked together and enriched with enamel and precious stones.
The larger plaques are richly ornamented with emeralds and sapphires, and the smallerplaques have each an enamelled figure of Our Lord, David, Solomon, and Hezekiah respectively.
It is composed of a series of four larger and four smaller plaques of gold, rounded at the tops and set together alternately.
With the tubercular ulcer or ulcers are usually found tubercular nodules or plaques in the serous coat, which are visible to the naked eye as opacities or milky deposits beneath the peritoneal coat.
It occurs in irregular plaques of a yellowish tint slightly elevated above the general surface, and rarely assumes a tubercular form.
Jean Capart that these plaquesare amulets or soul-boxes, in which the external souls of the dead were supposed to be preserved.
Palettes or plaques of schist in Egyptian tombs, ii.
Plaques or palettes of schist in Egyptian tombs, ii.
Some large handsome plaques of bronze, of a flamboyant character, are supposed to have been ornaments on the face of the shield (Nos.
On this tang were sometimes small transverse plaques for fastening the handle (No.
The peerless Persian pots, the plaques from Spain, the steins and stoves from Germany, the fresh Delft wares; these and many others crowd round for recognition and disconcert the choice.
Their large plaquesoffer a wonderful variety of pure brushwork ornament with spirited heraldic additions.
The coat had embroidered plaques decorated with the crane for the civil, and the tiger for the military mandarins.
The belt was ornamented with four plaquesof worked gold.
Four black horn plaquesand a silver button decorated the belt.
The belt had four ram's head plaques and a silver button.
The belt was ornamented with four embroidered plaques with rubies.
On the embroidered plaques of the coat were the emblems of a stork for the civil, and a little tiger for the military divisions.
Four tortoise-shell plaques and a silver button ornamented the belt.
The coat had embroidered plaques decorated with a hen for the civil class, and a lion for the military class.
The coat had embroidered plaques decorated with peacock's plumes, each feather having only one eye.
Very largely used for decoration; small plaques of nacre often engraved with scenes of men worshipping, &c.
Statuettes rare at this date, but relief heads on flatplaques or on vase handles common.
Plaques of little red, white and blue hatchets may take the place of flowers, and in the hall or reception room there should be a little table of "Souvenirs.
In India it appears both in the form of the smaller hand-fans and the larger pankhas, often richly decorated in colour, with inserted plaques of mica, or other ornamental device.
In the mounds of Palestine large numbers of terra-cotta plaques bearing her effigy are found.
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