An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations (1883)
Mollett, John W. (John William) · London, S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington · leaf 100
ntcharacter. Fauns and satyrs are constantly re-presented dancing the cordax. Cordeliers, Fr. The Franciscan friars are socalled from the r^i/5^ girdles they wear. Cordevan, O. E. A leather of goat-skin,originally from Cordova in Spain. Spelt alsoCordtiuaync; hence cordwamer or cordincr,… … Fig. 1S9. Corean tea-pot. (About a.d. 1562.) of the most ancient art of each. The tea-pot re-presented in Fig. 189 is covered with gravings inthe paste imitating the waves of the ocean, andshows four times repeated an imperial Japanesedevice, by which it appears that the piece wasdestined for the…
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