The gilt sterns of the men-of-war becoming clearer to him, the sides of the wooden sea walls alternately painted yellow and black, the bronze cannon at the ports.

File: KofunCuirass. jpg | Early Japanese armour, iron helmet and cuirass with gilt bronze decoration, Kofun period, 5th century.

Her head however, was parted from her body and inserted in a gilt bust from bronze.

This plunder included the gilt bronze horses from the Hippodrome of Constantinople, which were originally placed above the entrance to St Mark's cathedral in Venice, although the originals have been replaced with replicas and the originals are now stored within the basilica.

Image: ChangXingongdeng. jpg | A gilt bronze lamp with a shutter, in the shape of a maidservant, from the Western Han Dynasty, 2nd century BC

File: WLA vanda Lidded incense burner. jpg | Japanese Incense Burner, Signed ' Dai Nippon, Koko Sei ', Patinated bronze inlaid with gilt bronze and other soft metal alloys c. 1877

One of the rarest items in the collection is the 58 cm high Gloucester Candlestick, dated to c1110, made from gilt bronze ; with highly elaborate and intricate intertwining branches containing small figures and inscriptions, it is a tour de force of bronze casting.

Iron helmet and armour with gilt bronze decoration, Kofun period, 5th century.

Iron helmet and armour with gilt bronze decoration, Kofun era, 5th century.

Two graves from a well-preserved sixth and seventh-century Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Finglesham have yielded a bronze pendant and a gilt buckle with designs that are related to each other and may be symbolic of religious activity involving the Germanic deity Woden.

* In the right transept, the monument to Gian Giacomo Medici di Marignano, called " Medeghino ", by Leone Leoni, and the adjacent Renaissance marble altar, decorated with gilt bronze statues.

The gilt bronze statue was ceremonially " seated " in 1875, three years after the memorial opened.

It had elaborately carved doorways and windows, and its columns were ornately decorated ( far more so than is visible today ); they were painted, gilded and highlighted with gilt bronze and multi-colored inset glass beads.

Large mirrors, gilt sofas and armchairs, and Chinese bronze pedestals holding plant and flower arrangements decorate the Hall.

The chalice is a large, two-handled silver cup, decorated with gold, gilt bronze, brass, lead pewter and enamel, which has been assembled from 354 separate pieces ; this complex construction is typical of early Christian Irish metalwork.

Japanese iron helmet and armour with gilt bronze decoration, Kofun period, 5th century.

The gilt bronze cult statue of Sulis Minerva " appears to have been deliberately damaged " sometime in later Antiquity, perhaps by barbarian raiders, Christian zealots, or some other forces.

Originally made of terracotta, white marble, and gilt bronze, it was destroyed during the Restoration.

The Navy Distinguished Service Medal is a gilt bronze medallion in diameter.

Other early Anglo-Saxon items found at Reculver include a fragment of a gilt bronze brooch, or " fibula ", which was originally circular and set with coloured stones or glass, a claw beaker, and pottery.

The box she holds is an actual decorative casket made of ivory and gilt bronze and elaborately carved with scenes from the Pandora legend.

Built of many precious marbles and other costly stones, as well as gilt bronze, it was held to be the most expensive chapel in Europe up to that time.

The obverse central disc is in gilt, featuring the head of Marianne, surrounded by the legend République Française on a blue enamel ring.

In the middest in a faire wood he hath a royall House on pillars gilded and varnished, on every inch of which is a Dragon all gilt, which windeth his tayle about the pillar, which his head bearing up the loft, as also with his wings displayed on both sides ; the cover also is of Reeds gilt and varnished, so that the rayne can doe it no injury ; the reeds being three handfuls thick and ten yards log, split from knot to knot.

( for Christian Rosenkreuz, the legendary head of the original order ) painted in gilt letters on the three upper ends and with a climbing rose.

Bound in dark green pebbled cloth with blind-stamped borders on boards, gilt lettering on spine as follows: head: Man's place in nature / / T. H.

The building is a full-scale replica of the Athenian original ; and the statue of Athena Parthenos within is a reconstruction of the long lost original to careful scholarly standards: she is cuirassed and helmeted, carries a shield on her left arm and a small ( 6 ft ) statue of Nike ( Victory ) in her right palm, and stands high, gilt with more than eight pounds of gold leaf ; an equally colossal serpent rears its head between her and her shield.

According to their heathen belief he was the god of the fish, depicted in a most impudent manner: a board of wood, nose like a tin tube, eyes of glass, little horns on top of the head, covered with rags, attired in a ( gilt breasted ) purple robe.

The goddess held a lance whose gilt tip could be seen as a reflection by crews on ships rounding Cape Sounion, and a giant shield on the left side, decorated by Mys with images of the fight between the Centaurs and the Lapiths.

Raised-relief image of Minerva on a Roman gilt silver bowl, 1st century BC

The crown, which is made of silver gilt, consists of a circlet and cap decorated with the arms in enamel of various provinces of the realm.

The Burghley Nef, a salt-cellar, French, dated 1527-28, uses a nautilus shell to form the hull of a vessel, which rests on the tail of a parcelgilt mermaid, who rests on a hexagonal gilt plinth on six claw-and-ball feet.

The college is also in possession of a large collection of silver ( including the mediæval silver gilt Founder's Crosier, housed in a display case in the chapel ), and two notable " unicorn horns " ( which are in fact narwhal tusks ).

Other uses of the Saltire by the Army include the cap badge design of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, which consists of a ( silver ) Saltire, surmounted by a ( gilt ) lion rampant and ensigned with a representation of the Crown of Scotland.

She often wore parti-coloured cottes ( a type of tunic ), gold or silver girdles into which a dagger was casually thrust, she favoured red silk damask, and decorations of gilt quatrefoil, and to cover her dark hair she wore jaunty pillbox caps.

The award, which includes a silver gilt medal and a £ 1000 prize, was decided upon by the Institute of Physics in 1985, and first granted in 1987.

In these works realism and close observation of the human figure, emotions and lighting are combined with a Medieval formality, which includes gilt backgrounds.

The button was awarded between September 1939 and December 1946 and was made of gilt brass, except during metal shortages during which it was made of gilt plastic.

The Adams were the authors of numerous fine designs, none finer than their mantles and their looking-glass frames, which latter, exquisitely carved in airy grace and delicacy of broken garlands of fine blossoms falling about the great beveled sheet of glass, whether ebony or white or gilt, are of unrivaled beauty.

Figures of the youthful Horae, adorned with wreaths of foliage, adorn part of the furniture, which is chiefly gilt in order to give more relief to the azure, the black, and the orange compartments of the hangings.

It is two feet four inches in length, on the convex bend, the diameter of the larger end is three inches ; at each end it is tipt with silver, gilt, and has a wreath of leather, by which it is hung about the neck ".

At the point where the arches meet there rests an orb of gold which is enamelled in blue and ornamented with gilt stars.

Thornaby won a number of awards in 2008 ; it won the silver gilt award for best small cities, with its Northumbria in Bloom entry, which was repeated in 2011.

Jacob Baruch Askowith ( 1844 – 1908 ) and his son Charles Askowith designed the “ flag of Judah ,” which was displayed on July 24, 1891, at the dedication of Zion Hall of the B ’ nai Zion Educational Society in Boston, Massachusetts, U. S. Based on the traditional tallit, or Jewish prayer shawl, that flag was white with narrow blue stripes near the edges and bore in the center the ancient six-pointed Shield of David with the word “ Maccabee ” in gilt letters.

Construction of the Gothic Revival structure, which measured 24 ' x 48 ' and featured gilt ceiligns and stained glass windows, was completed by the early 1860s.