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Embossed and gilded
Embossed on the obverse is a five pointed heraldic star with circular center-piece bearing the gilded state emblem of India in the center.

Embossed and by
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gilded and leather
Cordwain, once a synonym of cordovan ( through Old French cordewan ) meaning " from Córdoba " describes painted or gilded embossed leather hangings manufactured in panels and assembled for covering walls as an alternative to tapestry.
* Henry VIII's writing desk, dated 1525, made from walnut and oak, lined with leather and painted and gilded with the king's coat of arms
For some time his father was a manufacturer of gilded leather hangings outside the city walls.
One of the rooms, the Spanish room ( named by reason of the Murillo paintings which hang there ), has walls hung with gilded leather.
Apparently Coornhert was not the only one concerned, but Floris ' wife Clara was also worried about him, and it was at this point in his career that his brother Cornelis built a palace for him in Antwerp with a facade of blue limestone ( Orduyn-steen ) and with luxurious decorations such as gilded leather wall-coverings in the bedroom.
Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII was a personage of such importance that in her portrait by an anonymous artist, c. 1500 she prays under a canopy of estate ; one can see the dosser against the gilded leather wall-covering and the tester above her head ( the Tudor rose at its center ) supported on cords from the ceiling.
The Complete Works ( especially in older editions ) is often sought after by book collectors, and a number of binderies and publishing houses have produced leather bound and gilded releases for luxury book collecting.
Byzantine men's shoes of partially gilded leather, 6th century, Walters Art Museum.

gilded and hangings
The quatrefoils of the dado arcade were painted with scenes of saints and martyrs and inset with painted and gilded glass, emulating Limoges enamels, while rich textiles hangings added to the richness of the interior.
Honolulu architects Walter Emory and Marshall Webb employed elements of Neoclassical architecture for the exterior — with Byzantine, Corinthian, and Moorish ornamentation — and a rich panoply of Beaux-Arts architecture inside — Corinthian columns, a gilded dome, marble statuary, plush carpets, silk hangings, and a Lionel Walden mural on the proscenium.

gilded and Dutch
Although the bicycle and the down-to-earth manners suggest a simple life style, the Dutch royal court of the 1950s and 1960s was still a splendid affair with chamberlains in magnificent uniforms, gilded state coaches, visits to towns in open carriages and lavish entertaining in the huge palaces.
Alton Towers grew into a collection of gardens: a Swiss Cottage, a Stonehenge, a Dutch garden, a Pagoda Fountain, said to be based on the To Ho pagoda in Canton, Lysicrates ' Choragic Monument from Athens ( a feature in English gardens since the 1760s ), domed glasshouses ( originally gilded ), even a fairly large Matterhorn as a backing to one of England's earliest Alpine gardens.

gilded and interior
* The church of Sant ' Andrea al Quirinale was designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini ( 1658 – 1671 ), for Cardinal Camillo Pamphilii ( nephew of Pope Innocent X ); it is one of the most elegant samples of baroque architecture in Rome, with its splendid interior of marble, stuccoes, and gilded decorations.
The statue alone is being built at a cost of US $ 47 million, by Aerosun Corporation of Nanjing, China, while the total cost of the Buddha Dordenma Project is well over US $ 100 million. The interior will accommodate 100, 000 8-inch-tall and 25, 000 12-inch-tall gilded Buddhas respectively.
For it is very great, the stairs and palace interior were coated with gold and silver, even the roof were gilded with gold.
The stairs and palace interior were coated with gold and silver, and even the roof were gilded.
It is one of the most ornate structures in Latin America, both due to the stucco work on the main facade and the gilded altarpieces which completely cover the length on the church ’ s interior.
The interior is focused on the main altar, which is gilded and has twelve colonial era paintings of the Virgin Mary and various saints along with Salomonic columns.
One of the largest buildings in Kuldiga ( 1905 street 6 ) known for its splendorous interior in marble with gilded details, is the Jewish synagogue.
The interior is faced with black and white marble and has a gilded ceiling and a frescoed dome.
Its interior has a single wide nave under a low segmental vault, with three interconnecting side chapels behind arches separated by colossal corinthian pilasters with gilded capitals that support an enriched entablature.
It has Romanesque foundations, but the actual structure is Gothic with an interesting apse, extensive Gothic frescoes from the 15th and early 16th century on the interior walls, a renovated wooden ceiling, and two gilded Baroque altars.
Decorated in the typical baroque interior style, the hall is filled with gilded wall-carvings, complex gilded pieces on the doors, and ornamental patterns of stylized flowers.
Behind a restrained Renaissance style facade the Gothic interior features arched vaulting that was painted blue with gilded stars and trimmed with brilliant red ribbing in a 19th century Neo-Gothic restoration.
The interior decoration of these churches relied on the use of both traditional carved and gilded woodwork and the rich and exotic woods of Brazil.
" The interior featured an Italian marble lobby ; Venetian mosaic floors ; elaborately carved walnut and cherrywood stairs and railings ; silk wallpapers ; ornate, gilded plasterwork ; and an enormous sounding-board mural (" Venus and Attendants Discover the Sleeping Adonis ") by the popular Canadian painter Frederick S. Challener.
Apart from the elaborate gilded altars, the interior of the church is simple.
The rest of the station's interior features most of the 1930s plans including powder-ballada marble on the rectangular pylons ( the outside faces have sconces and decorative gilded grilles depicting the hammer and sickle ), red salietti marble on the station walls, a dark olive duvalu marble on the socle and a chessboard layout on the main platform floor of granite and labradorite.
The interior will accommodate 100, 000 8-inch-tall and 25, 000 12-inch-tall gilded Buddhas respectively.
Featuring seven statues of saints set into niches on its massive façade, the interior is painted with an original mud-based paint that is still visible centuries later, as well as a sculpted and gilded altar.
Furnishings and interior designs from this period are referred to as Louis XIV-style ; the style is characterized by weighty brocades of red and gold, thickly gilded plaster molding, large sculpted sideboards, and heavy marbling.
The interior is covered with fine paintings and gilded carvings and includes a wainscot of rich tile work.

gilded and painted
Tokyo style, found anywhere else in Japan, features painted / gilded ornaments on the upper half of the body.
Other circus calliopes were self-contained, mounted on a carved, painted and gilded wagon pulled by horses, but the presence of other steam boilers in the circus meant that fuel and expertise to run the boiler were readily available.
A red, gold and silver banner was made for Warbeck as the Duke of York ; James's armour was gilded and painted ; and the royal artillery was prepared.
Sited on the former Chapel Court Garden, it has been planted with flowers and herbs from the 16th century, and is complete by gilded heraldic beasts and bold green and white painted fences.
The hulls were painted white, the Navy's peacetime color scheme, decorated with gilded scrollwork with a red, white, and blue banner on their bows.
Statues are often lacquered, gilded, or brightly painted, although there are little traces on the surfaces.
Russian domes are often gilded or brightly painted, and typically have a carcass and an outer shell made of wood or metal.
Russian domes are often gilded or brightly painted.
Catherine the Great | Catherine II's carved, painted and gilded Coronation Coach ( Hermitage Museum )
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.
Working together in a cooperative spirit, the artists Vasily Polenov and Viktor Vasnetsov designed a plain but picturesque church, with murals painted by Polenov, Vasnetsov and his brother, a gilded iconostasis by Ilya Repin and Mikhail Nesterov, and folklore-inspired sculptures by Viktor Hartmann and Mark Antokolsky.
American Renaissance painted decor: gilded stencilling on an olive green ground in the Office of the Secretary of the Navy in the Executive Office Building, 1879 ( now the Vice President's Ceremonial Office )
As with Romanesque architecture, this included sculpture as an integral part of the style, with even larger portals and other figures on the facades of churches the location of the most important sculpture, until the late period, when large carved altarpieces and reredos, usually in painted and gilded wood, became an important focus in many churches.
The carving at the window-heads and the royal arms were painted and gilded, and the old statues of the Pope, Knight, and Labouring Man on the east side had also been painted.
The images may be painted, carved, gilded, composed of mosaics, and / or embedded with niches for statues.
A cassone ( plural cassoni ) or marriage chest is a rich and showy Italian type of chest, which may be inlaid or carved, prepared with gesso ground then painted and gilded.
Leoni completely redesigned the house, originally built for the Duke of Monmouth in 1680, giving it a massive Corinthian portico which leads into a vast hall with a painted and gilded ceiling, with a trompe-l ' œil dome, painted by Thornhill.
Because of the complexity of the decision as well as the deep cultural connection many local residents felt to the statue, Wharton devised a novel scheme to allow the Hawaiian people to decide if the statue should remain painted with lifelike colors or be restored to its original gilded appearance.

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