We illustrate two examples of this class of Whieldon tortoiseshell plates with rich brown colouring flecked with green and yellow (see p.
This is impressed, and is found on various imitative ware, such as clouded tortoiseshell plates in the Whieldon manner.
Wood," similar in modelling to the Whieldon mottled tortoiseshell coloured specimen (illustrated p.
The left-hand one is richly glazed and mottled in tortoiseshell markings.
The prevailing colours of the knight are green and cream, the horse and the base of the group are of the familiar tortoiseshell colouring.
She stared about wildly a moment, and then tottered forward on hertortoiseshell cane.
Every one remarked how well the Baroness Bernstein looked; she laughed, and was particularly friendly with her niece; she had a bow and a stately smile for all, as she moved on, with her tortoiseshell cane.
Yet if red-tabby she-cats can be produced, I am of opinion that tortoiseshell he-cats could also.
As may have been gathered from the foregoing remarks, the points of the tortoiseshell he-cat are, black-red and yellow in patches, but no white.
Winner of many prizes 73 Head of properly-marked Siamese Cat 79 Mr. Thomas's Tortoiseshell Manx She-Cat.
Mr. Herbert Young, a most excellent cat fancier and authority on the subject, is of opinion that if a tortoiseshell male cat could be found, it would not prove fertile with a tortoiseshell female.
It is the opinion of some that this colour and the pure tortoiseshell is the original domestic cat, and that the other varieties of marking and colours are but deviations produced by crossing with wild varieties.
Failing the producing of the desired colour in the he-cats by the legitimate method of tortoiseshellwith tortoiseshell, I would advise the trial of some whole colours, such as solid black and white.
I am, therefore, of opinion that a tortoiseshell male and female would, and should, produce the best of tortoiseshells, both male and female.
The tortoiseshell is a mixture of colours in patches, and is certainly an exhibition of what may be done by careful selection, mating, and crossing of an animal while under the control of man, in a state of thorough domestication.
She was sleeping flat on her face upon the mats, her high headdress and tortoiseshell pins standing out boldly from the rest of the horizontal figure.
Seen from behind, our dolls are really very dainty, with their back hair so tidily done up, their tortoiseshell pins so coquettishly arranged.
Personally she was the reverse of vain, and wore the most palpable wig I ever saw, and a pair of spectacles, with tortoiseshell rims of an immense thickness.
I have talked with the goldsmith about going to Solo to learn to work in tortoiseshell there.
We have received word that the tortoiseshell will be here before many days.
Her dusky brown hair was slightly powdered and gathered on the top of her small head by a huge tortoiseshell comb set with red coral, long blue jet earrings quivered in her ears, and she wore a necklace of fine pearls.
In the corner beyond the windows was a plain dressing-table holding a few toilet articles, and behind it hung a mirror in a tortoiseshell frame.
The rose-bud was soon got with the aid of a little tortoiseshell knife that was really Marianne's.
On the whole, nature seems to abhor a Tortoiseshell Tom as it does a vacuum, or a chicken with two heads.
Tortoiseshell cats are, as a rule, neither very large, nor very prepossessing.
Smith, Clerkenwell, London; but I have no doubt there are many other Tortoiseshell Toms in the world.
For many a long year, this cat was considered a myth and an impossibility; and this belief seemed to receive confirmation, when, at the first Crystal Palace Show, no Tortoiseshell Tom put in an appearance.
The best to work with are the pearl for a white shuttle, and the inlaid tortoiseshell for a black shuttle; the prices vary from sixpence to one shilling and two-and-sixpence each.
A man brought home to-day some carved tortoiseshell brushes Tom has given me, with my name carved on them in Chinese.
The women's hair was elaborately and stiffly done up with light tortoiseshell combs and a large pin, and decorated with artificial flowers.
In 1759 Wedgwood established his own factory, and both firms made tortoiseshell ware in the same molds used for making salt-glazed whiteware.
A special form of marquetry of brass and tortoiseshell perfected by Andre Charles Boule in the reign of Louis XIV.
The design was then cut out, the result being that each sheet of tortoiseshell had a design cut out of it, into which the same design from one of the sheets of brass would exactly fit.
Boule, inlaid with Cupids, vases of flowers and scrolls, and fitted with four tortoiseshell and gold picque shell-shaped snuff boxes.
In the pieces by Boule and others, not in tortoiseshell but in wood inlay, the wood was so displayed as to exhibit in the panels the grain radiating from the centre.
His most notable productions are the finely chased ormolu, in which he was an accomplished worker, and the inlay of tortoiseshell and brass, sometimes varied with ebony or silver, which have remained the wonder of succeeding generations.
Similarly each sheet of brass had a design cut out of it into which a corresponding piece of tortoiseshell would fit.
It consists of a brass groundwork with tortoiseshell inlay.
Boule or Premiere partie is a metal inlay, usually brass, applied to a tortoiseshell background.
The brass and the tortoiseshell were cut into thin sheets.
This alternation of tortoiseshell and brass forms a brilliant marquetry.
That in which the ground is of tortoiseshelland the inlaid portion is brass, is considered the better, and is called boule, or the premiere partie.
His brass and tortoiseshell marquetry set a fashion to all succeeding craftsmen.
Anyhow she was knitting, when she suddenly found herself looking into the wistful eyes of a tortoiseshell cat which had appeared--merely appeared.
Yes, they were just brown eyes when she first came in, but now they were tortoiseshell in the pale October light.
And now, too, laughter was playing a fluttering game with the inevitable shyness in the tortoiseshell eyes.
The grey cat thought it was speaking to the tortoiseshell, and the tortoiseshell was certain it meant the grey.
The insects which mimic these are chiefly Papilios, and Diadema, a genus allied to our peacock and tortoiseshell butterflies.
There happened to be lying on a marble slab, near to the place where they were standing, a small round mirror of highly polished steel, set in a frame of tortoiseshell and gold.
The couches were of the finest rosewood, inlaid with tortoiseshell and ivory and brass, strewed with the richest tapestries, and piled with cushions glowing with splendid needlework.
The old woman cast frequent glances at her master through her large tortoiseshell spectacles, and seemed several times about to address him, but as often checked herself in respect to his holy employment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tortoiseshell" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
