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Vases filled with water used to start fires were known in the ancient world, and metaphorical significance was drawn ( by the early Church Fathers, for instance ) from the fact that the water remained cool even though the light passing through it would set materials on fire.
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Vases may be made into candles by filling with melted wax and a wick.
Vases of all kinds, carved in marble or other stones, cast or beaten in metals or fashioned in clay, the latter in enormous number and variety, richly ornamented with coloured schemes, and sometimes bearing moulded decoration.
Vases and other works of relief sculpture, from the 4th, 5th and 6th centuries BC, depict Triptolemus holding an ear of corn, sitting on a winged throne or chariot, surrounded by Persephone and Demeter with pine torches.
Thereafter, the French called the stream " Riviere Aux Vases " or river with miry places.
Vases were produced for the domestic market on the one hand, and were important for celebrations or in connection with ritual acts.
Turquoise and Cream Blossom Decoration Vases with combed glaze finish.
Vases and used
* The reference book " Attic Black-figure Vase-Painters " of John Beazley ( commonly used when the subject is Attic Black-figure Vases )
Vases and were
Vases on the corners of the first octagon, installed in 1770s, replaced the statues lost in 1723 ( the vases were later regularly replaced and are now made of concrete ).
Vases found in Italy were relatively affordable, so that even private individuals could assemble important collections.
Vases were a popular souvenir for young northwestern Europeans to bring home from the Grand Tour.
Vases and known
The Kleophon Painter was known for his paintings of various Red Figure Attic Vases during the fourth century BCE.
Sir John Davidson Beazley ( 13 September 1885 to 6 May 1970 ) was a British classical archaeologist and art historian, known for his classification of Attic Vases by artistic style.
Vases and world
The David Vases, said to be two of the best-known Chinese porcelains in the world.
Vases and by
Keats also had access to prints of Greek urns at Haydon's office, and he traced an engraving of the " Sosibios Vase ", a Neo-Attic marble volute krater, signed by Sosibios, in the Louvre Museum, which he found in Henry Moses's A Collection of Antique Vases, Altars, Paterae.
Vases and for
Vases and bowls, items which often form the " canvas " for " art glass ", if in cut crystal are far more likely to be in daily use and are therefore unequivocally glassware rather than " art glass ".
* In 2011 Whitley Bay won the FA Vase for an unprecedented fourth time, and became the first team to win three FA Vases in succession and the first team to win three trophies consecutively at Wembley.
Vases and from
It includes examples of the rare Ru and Guan wares and two important Yuan dynasty blue and white porcelain temple vases ( the " David Vases ") the oldest dated blue and white porcelain objects, from 1351.
Among Dr Murray's other official publications are three folio volumes on Terra-cotta Sarcophagi, White Athenian Vases and Designs from Greek Vases.
Vases from the reign of Khasekhemwy show the king as Horus wearing the White Crown.
The city's name derives from the Arabic " qal ' at-al-ghiran " (" Hill of Vases ").
Vases and on
Mark W. Edwards in his paper " Representation of Maenads on Archaic Red-Figure Vases " traces the evolution of maenad's depictions on Red-Figure vases.
* Edwards, Mark W. " Representation of Maenads on Archaic Red-Figure Vases.
Since then he has written 4 more in the series ; Just in Case, Dead on Target, The Cinelli Vases, and still to be published Celluloid and Tinsel.
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File: Tomb of Merehi 1. jpg | Room 20a-Tomb of Merehi & Greek Vases, Lycia, 360 BC
: Chancellor of the King of Egypt, Doctor, First in line after the King of Upper Egypt, Administrator of the Great Palace, Hereditary nobleman, High Priest of Heliopolis, Builder, Chief Carpenter, Chief Sculptor, and Maker of Vases in Chief.
* I. Jenkins and K. Sloan, Vases and Volcanoes: Sir William Hamilton and his Collection ( London, The British Museum Press, 1996 ), pp. 187 – 88, no.
In Justin Kerr, ed., The Maya Vase Book: A Corpus of Rollout Photographs of Maya Vases, Volume 4.
* Shapes and Names of Athenian Vases, Plantin, 1935, reprinted, McGrath, 1973.
* Red-Figured Athenian Vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Press, 1936.
* Attic Red-Figured Vases, Yale University Press, 1946, revised edition, 1958.
Vases are defined as having a certain anatomy.
At its most numerous, the Fiesta line comprised approximately 64 different items, including Flower Vases in three sizes, Divided Plates, Water Tumblers, Carafes, Teapots in two sizes, Five Part Relish Trays, and large Chop Plates in fifteen-inch and thirteen-inch diameters.
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Morgan filled the fire box with wood again, then started supper and set the table.
although we didn't expect the attack before dawn, the long cloudy night, filled with the sounds of the industrious insects, seemed endless.
The morning air was filled with the sweetish odor of new-spilled blood, the acrid stench of frightened horses, and the bitterness of burned powder.
He finished with the team and filled his pipe and stood looking about him.
I had a one-room studio which overlooked an ancient courtyard filled with flowers and plants, blooming everlastingly in the southern sun.
When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.
It was filled with dust and wind and sound and violence.
Already our leaky lifeboat was filled with five inches of water.
There was a shattering, cracking sound as the concrete started to buckle, the air filled with dust and flying debris, and everyone in the room -- men and women hit the floor and used the desks as turtlebacks, as ordered.
He took out a small packet filled with bits of charcoal, a deep pot of thin metal, some sheets of newspaper, a book of matches and a wrinkled and many-times folded piece of tin foil with holes in it.
Travelers entering from the desert were confounded by what must have seemed an illusion: a great garden filled with nightingales and roses, cut by canals and terraced promenades, studded with water tanks of turquoise tile in which were reflected the glistening blue curves of a hundred domes.
I am usually filled with an uneasiness that through some unwitting slip all hell may break loose.
As Lipton, the prophet of the beat generation, declares: `` In the sexual act, the beat are filled with mana, the divine power.
she filled the waste spots of the yard with common things like the garden heliotrope in a corner by the woodshed, and the plantain lilies along the west side of the house.
And yet amid all the gay hedonism in Pilgrimage And Wander-Years is a cycle of short poems, `` Thoughts In Loneliness '', filled with brooding, melancholy, and sombre longing ''.
Solid brick buildings painted dazzling white, large domes and tall, picturesque palms stretched as far as the eye could see, while the wharves and harbor were filled with tall-masted sailing ships.
It is filled with the usual personal abuse of Steele, especially of his physical appearance ; ;
The innocent malfeasant, filled with that supreme sense of honor found in bars, insisted upon replacing the destroyed monacle -- and did, over the protests of the former owner -- with a square monacle.
His delightful picture of society and institutions is filled with warm detail that brings the period vividly to life.
He was filled with knowledge of the Bible and the Talmud.
I must have written to say how much I had enjoyed his fine book The Building Of Eternal Rome, and I found he had not regretted giving me the highest mark in his old course on the later Latin poets, although in my final examination I had ignored the questions and filled the bluebook with a comparison of Propertius and Coleridge.
Now the park is filled with marble busts and all the streets in the immediate area have the full and proper names of the men who fell.
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