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 308
first page in every sheet, as adirection to the binder in collating them. Signets. (See Rings.) Signinum (opus), R. A kind of concrete forfloorings, invented at Signia, and formed ofbroken tiles consolidated with mortar, andlevelled with a paviors beetle. Signum, R. A general term for any kind… … Fig. 613. WallofSilex. Silex, R. In general a flint or flint-stone,and thence, by extension, any kind of hard stonehewn into polygonal blocks, as shown in Fig.613. Silhouette, Fr. A profile portrait, or repre-sentation of the shape contained in the outlineof an object, with no attempt to fill in…
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