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 252
lled rustic pottery (^riistiqnes figulines),dishes or vases where upon a rough groundstrewn with fossil shells, lizards and salaman-ders are running, frogs jumping, snakes crawlingor sleeping, or more still, in a streamlet ofwater wriggling eels, pointed-nosed pikes, troutwith spotted scales, and a… … Fig. 516. Palissy Jug. style in all his figures and compositions; suchas the Diana, Plenty, &c., framed round withdelicate and ingenious ornaments drawn in thetaste of the period. {yacijuemart.) Paliurus. A thorn-bush with long sharpspikes, common on tlie coasts of the Mediter-ranean, where it…
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