These girders are of the composition above described, and thus constitute a sort of monolith upon which any sort of a floor can be laid—terra cotta, marble, wood, etc.
On the long pedestal at the right of the cella stood a deer of terra cotta, above life size, of which some fragments have been found.
In the same room a marble table, a sistrum, two pots of terra cotta, three small glass bottles, and a glass cup were found.
These are poor images of terra cotta, and the temple itself was altogether unworthy to be a place of worship for the great gods that shaped the destinies of Rome.
Having abandoned his original employment for that of modelling in terra cotta, he succeeded, after many experiments, in making a white enamel, with which he coated his works, and thus rendered them durable.
He adorned the Italian churches with tiles, as well as with altar-pieces, in terra cotta enamelled; and he is the founder of a school which produced works not much inferior to his own.
II-19] Mr Squier describes five vessels of earthen ware orterra cotta obtained, in localities not mentioned, from Costa Rican graves.
The four figures of the cut show additional specimens in terra cotta from Mr Squier, of which Fig.
The device of a beast springing on the back of a human form, so frequent among the statues or idols, also occurs in terra cotta.
There once stood in the refectory a terra cottagroup of the 'Last Supper.
Among the pictures, bronzes, and terre cotte of Pacetti's shop, where I used often to wander about, I was struck by a group in terra cotta of a pieta.
Very worthless statues have been seen, and still may be seen, in beautiful marble, and, vice versa, beautiful statues in simple terra cottaor wood.
A little terra cotta of Luca della Robbia, or an intaglio of Barili, is worth more than a hundred thousand wretched statues in marble or bronze.
In front stood a sun-dial mounted on a terra cotta column, beneath a clump of small Lombardy poplars.
A feature of the reception-room was a wide fireplace of terra cotta surmounted by a mantel, consisting of at least a dozen combined moldings, each member of which showed a striking individuality of detail.
The Maxwells lived at Presidio Heights, in one of the newer residences of the aristocratic Western Addition, a handsome brick house decorated with Romanesque fantasies in terra cotta, behind a bronze rail guarded by heraldic griffins.
The latter term, té è le, is generic, being applied to nearly all terra cotta vessels which are taller than they are broad.
Where clay occurred of a fine tough texture, easily mined and manipulated, the work in terra cotta became proportionately more elaborate in variety and finer in quality.
These include gray, brown, green, blue, and many shades of terra cotta.
The principal materials necessary for manufacture are stone, marble, terra cotta or wood.
Terra cotta, while not as often used, has its advantages.
The pulpit, reading desk, benches, organ screen, and the whole of the decorations were made of terra cotta.
Faveau has been peculiarly successful in her adaptation of terra cotta to artistic purposes.
Terra cotta is no more than a refined brick, made of the same sort of material, only in every respect more carefully, and kiln baked.
The Natural History Museum, the finest of them all, is hardly fit for our present purpose, as it is as completely encased in terra cotta as the fronts of the buildings in this avenue are in stone.
The difficulty of carriage was so great in mountainous countries, that the inhabitants of the Alps substituted for vessels of terra cotta, casks, or wooden tubs, put together with wooden circles, similar to our own.
It is afterwards distributed in small vases of terra cotta, called bardaks, of the size of our water-jugs.
This piece of terra cotta, drawn the size of the original, is taken from the collection of children’s playthings of Prince de Biscari.
Drinking-cup, of terra cotta, in the form of a pig’s head, found at Herculaneum.
The cloisters adjoining are surrounded with a light arcade, with enrichments in the spandrils and frieze, all in terra cotta.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "terra cotta" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
