It was a combination of biscuit, toffee and chocolate with an icing decoration. |
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The architectural elements are held together by sculptural decoration including winged terms and mermen. |
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Climbing vines, seashells, and animal horns may have been the initial inspiration for this decoration. |
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Dense hangs are out of fashion, and when it comes to fashionable interior decoration, minimalism tends to be the order of the day. |
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Here, as in other places, Kent's elegant furniture and rich decoration anticipated the interiors of Robert Adam. |
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Hargrave believed that good function was good design and that every boat should look attractive without a lot of decoration or trim. |
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So I cannot be used for anything concrete and I sit like a decoration among Ming vases. |
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I have taught maiolica decoration to the older students with great results. |
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Use a food-safe leaf, such as this Japanese aralia, for a small salad plate, or just for decoration. |
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Illuminated manuscripts are handwritten books or rolls with painted decoration and illustration. |
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The temple was holy and spiritual yet somehow areligious in its atmosphere, design and decoration. |
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He became internationally famous for his collection, which included forty-five examples of armorial decoration, now on display in the museum. |
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Many rococo revival etageres were made from imported rosewood because the beautiful grain patterns followed the lines of carved decoration. |
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You are likely to be the only one for miles around with such a unique Christmas decoration. |
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The booklet directs the attention of the young traveler to the superb decoration which masters applied to swords, arbalests, and arquebus. |
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The example shown is ornamented with concentric bands of decoration around a group of folk dancers in the central roundel. |
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Some Maglemosian material culture was artistically designed, with decoration on tools and wooden canoes. |
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The ornateness of the decoration and the skill of the band must have required an astronomical amount of money. |
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Since they were all manuscript, no two charts or atlases were alike in size, decoration or cartographic content. |
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The Boeing business jet also comes with a choice of interior decoration ranging from the basic to sumptuous. |
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Many Type I tiles are to be found at Tentudia, and the two in the British Museum still retain their lustre decoration. |
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Being stone built, with treated timber window frames, the house will never need exterior decoration. |
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Further awards of the same decoration were shown by a bar on the ribbon of the cross or medal. |
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Sometimes the decoration was misaligned, possibly because the decorator was overworked or distracted. |
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The enamel, millefiori and glass decoration, insular in style and technique, are most closely paralleled in Ireland. |
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Here, the white ribbon is read as a robe that mediates structure and decoration and opens the building to other forms of signification. |
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It looks like I have bats in my belfry with that Halloween decoration hanging on the guillotine. |
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Coffee stains were the only decoration on the white wallpaper, begrimed and neglected. |
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For an easy mantel decoration, use a series of matching containers, such as these small galvanized tin cups. |
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Folk craft traditions include beadwork, sewing, pottery making, house decoration, and weaving. |
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The case has the same decoration of painted marbling on a light brown ground, and the stand is marbled in grey on black. |
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Massive tombs with painted and sculpted decoration, ash urns, and sarcophagi became a form of social competition. |
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Neapolitan workshops also produced scagliola, a composition substance that could closely imitate pietre dure decoration. |
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The tea house are typically very traditional Chinese building with Chinese decoration. |
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Internally the decoration is of a type and standard more usually encountered in abbeys and cathedrals. |
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The upper wall has barbotine decoration in the form of leaf scrolls on both sides running from handle to handle. |
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Mocha ware, with its brightly patterned surfaces and surprisingly modern decoration, has attracted the attention of collectors for many years. |
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One's eye is immediately drawn to the relief decoration of alternating acanthus and palm leaves that encircles the body just above the base. |
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The history of the decoration of the Escorial is a record of Philip's sometimes reluctant accommodation to circumstances beyond his control. |
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The room where the wassailers will assemble needs to have greenery as decoration. |
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This is a very fine Chinese porcelain tea caddy with Crane decoration, clouds and waves. |
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In barbotine work, the decoration was either of the same or of a different colour from that of the ground. |
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Body decoration is a primal and innate part of the human psyche, whichever way it chooses to express itself. |
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A kakemono is intended to be displayed vertically as part of the interior decoration of a room. |
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Daggers en suite with wakizashis and katanas were accorded the same care in their manufacture and decoration as their companion swords. |
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Our room was up on the hill overlooking the sea, equipped with air conditioning and cool interior decoration. |
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For centuries, this heady flower has been a traditional decoration for the various holidays that fall in the December winter solstice season. |
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Her steadfast delivery favours conviction over decoration and never overstates the point. |
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The property had been refurbished, but was sold as a shell without kitchen, bathrooms or any decoration. |
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Fresh, they add decoration and delicate flavours, for instance woodruff in German wine-cups, or make soothing hot drinks. |
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Poor workmanship by the decoration team may still make a mess of your house even though you have paid for good materials. |
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All wore a loose black robe from neck to ground, with only a jade-studded belt and wristlet for decoration. |
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This small corkscrew has a green-stained ivory handle and a silver shank with beaded and writhen fluted decoration. |
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He seldom applied surface decoration other than subtly toned lacquers to protect the metal against tarnishing. |
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Unlike many other features which may be found in a church the aumbry is usually very simple with little or no decoration. |
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Here in the Pennsylvania Dutch country, the Amish need their quilts for more than just decoration. |
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Penwork decoration, with designs in reserves on a black background, may itself have first developed within the Tunbridge ware industry. |
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In cooking it is often used as a garnish or decoration, both in sweet and in savoury dishes. |
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The professional courses cover everything from basic floral arrangements and dried flower decoration to the art of making leis and gift baskets. |
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My single aphorism, derived from anthropologist Alfred Gell, is that pattern, decoration, ornament, attaches people to things. |
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His scientific instruments are characterised by their stylish lettering and decoration. |
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In Siena artists responded to the Florentine preoccupation with space, yet retained a traditional interest in rich decoration. |
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The nature of their decoration, whether by painted plaster on walls or ceilings, or by tessellated and mosaic floors, compares well with that from the countryside. |
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Still, as I wound the clock, I felt that it was more than mere decoration. |
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Design for a decoration of a semi-dome, with Christ in a mandorla of cherubim between Sts Peter and Paul, and two martyrs, with a kneeling pope below. |
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He walked out of the kitchen area and tranquilly walked through the halls, admiring the paintings and furniture that were artfully placed in different places as decoration. |
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The lean, minimalist design is refreshingly at odds with the usual run of touristy alpine decoration and furnishings featured at other ski resort hotels. |
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In that year she traveled to Venice and commissioned the Salviati company to design the elaborate interior and exterior mosaic decoration for the church. |
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In 2005, Congress passed the Stolen Valor Act, a law making it illegal to lie about receiving a military medal or decoration. |
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The practice reached its peak in the Victorian Era, when naturalism became all the rage for museums and even household decoration. |
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The red, black, and gold tones suggest lacquered or japanned decoration. |
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With grey-green glaze on both the interior and exterior, the decoration en barbotine, the exterior with five vertical bands of conical projections. |
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Most antique furniture can suffer as a result of extremes in temperature, especially painted and lacquered examples and those inlaid with marquetry, brass or ivory decoration. |
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As in many Renaissance antiphonaries, the prominence of the large historiated initial T and the profuse border decoration have reduced the text to a few verses. |
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Everywhere you look, each piece of furniture, picture, decoration and wall hanging is a priceless treasure collected over the centuries by Kings and Queens. |
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The most prestigious traditional Bohemian glass decoration, Tiefschnit, or deep, intaglio carving, was also adopted by the artists of the avant-garde. |
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A leaf mobile is the perfect decoration for the fall season! |
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Generally speaking, Austin's older cemeteries, such as that in which Vela is buried, do not enforce the strict decoration policies in place at newer memorial parks. |
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The party-pooping rotters have now left local children in tears at the prospect of facing Christmas without their favourite novelty garden decoration. |
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The high cost of the exotic woods often used for the veneers and pictorial marquetry decoration meant that these materials had to be used sparingly. |
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The vessels are all small, two-handled pottery jars and lack decoration. |
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Slaves bought in Mozambique were often from the Makua, Yao or Maravi groups, who practised dental decoration of the patterns noted in these skeletons. |
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The diverse themes represented in the decoration include mythical and historical figures, folk tales, zoomorphic imagery, plants, flowers, birds, and other animals. |
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Yet Matisse continued to work in this trademark style, with its emphasis on arabesque lines, bright colors and decoration, throughout his long artistic life. |
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Various ethnic groups in the country have their distinct artistic traditions related to the decoration of houses, clothing, leatherwork, and artifacts. |
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You can use plastic ornaments and toys as your cake decoration, such as umbrellas, storks, bassinets, baby bottles, sports figure dells and newborn baby dolls. |
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Both Horta and Van de Velde designed not only the houses, but also all of the interior decoration, furniture, carpets, and architectural details. |
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The decoration of this feature is singular for it displays in relief an ansate, oval dish complete with offerings. |
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Completing the decoration are stylized ataurique motifs distinguished by asymmetrical leaves. |
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Most decoration involved the ankle clocks, and several are shown on p.15 in the form of charts. |
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The old building will get a facelift with new paint, carpet, and decoration. |
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If no decoration is applied, biscuit or glost firing is the final operation in manufacture. |
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The decoration found on the stems are perpendicular ribbings, ordinary rounded mouldings, and perpendicular lobings. |
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Unique to the transepts and chapter house is the use of Purbeck marble to adorn the piers, adding to the richness of decoration. |
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In 2010, Winchester's Combined Cadet Force received the Queen's Colours, a regimental decoration. |
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Their decoration emulated Romanesque architecture, and sometimes incorporated double windows similar to those found in church bell towers. |
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It stood for traditional craftsmanship using simple forms, and often used medieval, romantic, or folk styles of decoration. |
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It is also employed as a wall decoration in which arcade and window openings form part of the whole decorative surface. |
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The interior was purely functional and spare, a large open space of steel, glass and concrete where the only decoration was the structure itself. |
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They were always white, and had no ornament or decoration on the outside or inside. |
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Its external decoration borrowed from Gothic cathedrals, as did its internal arcades. |
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Most of the pavilions were in a neoclassical Deco style, with colonnades and sculptural decoration. |
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The Insular style is most famous for its highly dense, intricate and imaginative decoration, which takes elements from several earlier styles. |
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The decoration influences the shape of the letters, and various decorative forms are mixed in a very unclassical way. |
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The insular tendency for the decoration to lunge into the text, and take over more and more of it, was a radical innovation. |
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The influences on the decoration are also highly controversial, especially regarding Coptic or other Near Eastern influence. |
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Colours are very bright and the decoration has tremendous energy, with spiral forms predominating. |
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Greatly enlarged initials, sometimes inhabited, were retained, as well as far more abstract decoration than found in classical models. |
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Later insular carvings found throughout Britain and Ireland were almost entirely geometrical, as was the decoration on the earliest crosses. |
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The pages of ornamentation have motifs familiar from metalwork and jewellery that pair alongside bird and animal decoration. |
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Old and New Testament scenes were shown side by side in works like the Speculum Humanae Salvationis, and the decoration of churches. |
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The Hall was constructed mainly of Fareham Red brick, with terra cotta block decoration made by Gibbs and Canning Limited of Tamworth. |
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The art of Ottoman decoration developed with a multitude of influences due to the wide ethnic range of the Ottoman Empire. |
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The United States Navy recognizes those who complete deployments with a special decoration known as the Sea Service Deployment Ribbon. |
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Much of the local character of a style comes from the type of decoration that is added to a tune. |
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The Arts and Crafts movement emerged from the attempt to reform design and decoration in mid 19th century Britain. |
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Greek foliage decoration was also influential, with Indian versions of the Corinthian capital appearing. |
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On his return to Hollywood after the war, he received the Legion of Merit, an American military decoration. |
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At Imperial public baths, a person of humble means could view wall paintings, mosaics, statues, and interior decoration often of high quality. |
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This resulted in the widespread destruction of Medieval church furnishings, ornaments and decoration. |
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Office buildings and department stores featured high courtyards covered with stained glass cupolas and ceramic decoration. |
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Wolfers was noted particularly for creating works of symbolist glass, often with metal decoration attached. |
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The use of metal decoration in vegetal forms soon also appeared in silverware, lamps, and other decorative items. |
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In all of these houses, the architects also designed the furniture and the interior decoration, down to the doorknobs and carpeting. |
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They are grand buildings, especially the exterior of the former magistrates' court, which features a gothic architecture style of decoration. |
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Of primary significance in these studies is the complex balance of continuity over change in both their design and their decoration. |
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The trumpet shaped terminations of various types of Bronze Age Irish jewellery are also reminiscent of motifs popular in later Celtic decoration. |
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The illumination and decoration was normally planned at the inception of the work, and space reserved for it. |
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Glaze is a glassy coating on pottery, the primary purposes of which are decoration and protection. |
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Minoan pottery was characterized by elaborate painted decoration with natural themes. |
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At first the wares used European shapes and mostly Chinese decoration, as the Chinese had done, but gradually original Japanese styles developed. |
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Some examples of these human universals are abstract thought, planning, trade, cooperative labor, body decoration, control and use of fire. |
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It must have been in the decoration phase that grains of wheat and barley left their impression in the clay. |
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A common use is for floristry, usually for decoration inside a house or building. |
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They have a wide discus, a narrow shoulder and no handle, elaborate imagery and artistic finishing, and a wide range of patterns of decoration. |
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Similarly, imported bronze continued to be used during the Iron Age in Scandinavia, but it was now much scarcer and mostly used for decoration. |
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There is some incised decoration, but a large part of the surface was normally left plain. |
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In the Swiss pile dwellings, the incised decoration was sometimes inlaid with tin foil. |
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A Third Century Emperor, Decius, even received from the Senate the name Trajan as a decoration. |
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Also around 3000 BC to 1500 BC, women in the ancient Indus Valley Civilization applied red tinted lipstick to their lips for face decoration. |
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Mexican cuisine is known for its intense and varied flavors, colorful decoration, and variety of spices. |
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However, most characteristic of Kraak decoration is the use of foliated radial panels. |
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The two buildings incorporate in their decoration the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. |
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Later, in China, a style of decoration based on sinuous plant forms spreading across the object was perfected and most commonly used. |
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From about 1640 Dutch Delftware also became a competitor, using styles frankly imitative of the East Asian decoration. |
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Changing taste was also reflected in chinoiserie decoration and greater use of a polychrome palette. |
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Since then, areas have developed specialties in form and decoration, but techniques have not changed much for over 400 years. |
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The Ecclesiologist was first published in October 1841 and dealt with the study of the building and decoration of churches. |
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Frederick William III commissioned then the first Iron Cross as military decoration. |
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Mills of this period were large, their decoration was lavish reflecting Edwardian taste and prosperity. |
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Thicker monofilaments are typically used for industrial purposes rather than fabric production or decoration. |
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The uses for intact moss are principally in the florist trade and for home decoration. |
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Brooklyn is brick walls, little shops and industrial decoration. |
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The tower will be open to visitors and the Yule tree will be on show and in full decoration. |
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A new stucco decoration was instead inserted covering the archivolts and walls. |
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But they were once used for so much more than just decoration. |
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I have all the paintings and any decoration taken out of the room. |
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Apart from the BES, he prettified up to 100 houses in Engadine with scraffito decoration. |
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Even his more mundane pots and bowls are highly tactile, with surfaces ranging from volcanic pitting to crackled glazes and sgraffito decoration. |
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Michael Community School, hangs a decoration on the Christmas tree at the Mendel Art Gallery, in Saskatoon. |
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Circumstances later found him in Wolverhampton, where he became an apprentice japanner, painting the decoration on enamelled tea trays. |
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This year's decoration at the Merlion Park consists of a series of 20 chequered flags flanking the Merlion. |
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Manuscripts produced there combined script with both nonfigurative decoration and figurative paintings. |
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The walls of the store are covered with stones and the wooden shelves and decoration are adding value to the coziness of the place. |
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Where metal objects have been used for decoration this has not been concealed, and there are at least two isolated figures of native Indians with boleadoras and arrows. |
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Really, no other word for this sad sack of a woman, desperately trying to cling on to a man who only ever wanted her around as decoration for his yachts and ego. |
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The decoration, by contrast, is deliberately hyper-realistic and evokes a roundedness, implying a similitude despite being a two-dimensional drawing. |
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For verandah and wall decoration, succulents like sedum, aporocactus, ceropegia, zygocactus and epiphyllum grown in hanging baskets or wall baskets can look very attractive. |
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Carefully placed metal oxides in the form of rust flakes, wire wool and fragments of bronze are now the basis of her decoration, in an ongoing process of development. |
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We are organising a company for the production of furniture and decoration of all kinds, for the sale of which we are going to open an actual shop! |
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Examples of his work include a painted, floral pilaster decoration in the central room of Wallington Hall in Northumberland, home of his friend Pauline Trevelyan. |
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During the early medieval period, the Franks manipulated the technique of glassblowing by creating the simple corrugated molds and developing the claws decoration techniques. |
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Mills were of red brick or sometimes local stone with a greater attention to decoration and the main gate was often highlighted with stone decoration. |
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Blue and white decoration first became widely used in Chinese porcelain in the 14th century, after the cobalt pigment for the blue began to be imported from Persia. |
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Wood carving is a highly developed art form, with distinct regional styles evident in the decoration of balcony railings and other architectural elements. |
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Other major types of wares continued without a sharp break in their development, but there was a general trend to some larger size pieces, and more decoration. |
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The use of dry brushing was certainly widespread in Italian rural church decoration by the nineteenth century, where it was employed mainly for reasons of economy. |
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Archaeological findings provide a principal source of detail about Greek mythology, with gods and heroes featured prominently in the decoration of many artifacts. |
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From around 1670 the most prominent feature of a house front was its entrance, with pillars on each side and possibly a balcony above it, but no further decoration. |
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Nabeshima ware was produced in kilns owned by that family of feudal lords, and used decoration in the Japanese tradition, much of it related to textile design. |
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The addition of decoration has evolved throughout its history. |
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Often different artists worked on the different parts of the decoration. |
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The decorative ornament on the safa is known as the toran and is typically seen as a door decoration during religious rituals, welcoming visitors and God into the ceremony. |
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Christmas lights, the most purchased indoor decoration last year, didn't make the top of the planned purchase list, suggesting that lights are an impulse item. |
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The furniture was geometric and had a minimum of decoration, though in style it often followed national historic precedent, particularly the Biedemeier style. |
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In Germany, the furniture of Peter Behrens and the Jugendstil was largely rationalist, with geometric straight lines and some decoration attached to the surface. |
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Small Buddhist figures and groups were produced to a very high quality in a range of media, as was relief decoration of all sorts of objects, especially in metalwork and jade. |
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They are cast with complex patterned and zoomorphic decoration, but avoid the human figure, unlike the huge figures only recently discovered at Sanxingdui. |
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For a much wider section of the population, moulded relief decoration of pottery vessels and small figurines were produced in great quantity and often considerable quality. |
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As a result of the Kosovo War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation created a second NATO medal, the NATO Medal for Kosovo Service, an international military decoration. |
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A distinctive Insular type of book is the pocket gospel book, inevitably much less decorated, but in several cases with Evangelist portraits and other decoration. |
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Apart from black, some orange ink is used for dotted decoration. |
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Art Deco architects such as Auguste Perret and Henri Sauvage often made a compromise between the two, combining modernist forms and stylized decoration. |
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In areas of Southern England using flint architecture, elaborate flushwork decoration in flint and ashlar was used, especially in the wool churches of East Anglia. |
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George V continued a process of more gradual modernisation, assisted by his wife, Mary of Teck, who had a strong interest in furniture and decoration. |
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The George Cross is the highest civil decoration of the United Kingdom, and also holds, or has held, that status in many of the other countries of the Commonwealth of Nations. |
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The bland cashew is a fitting substitute for higher priced almonds to extend the nut texture. In baking, however, almonds are more suitable for cake decoration than cashews. |
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Nowadays, stockade walls are often used as garden fencing, made of finished planks more useful for privacy fencing and more decoration than security. |
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This symbolism of making the object seems to be more than decoration. |
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Other lesser churches may be dated to the late eighth and early ninth centuries on the basis of their elaborate sculptured decoration and have simple naves with side porticus. |
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The style and decoration of the grave goods found in the cemetery are very distinctive, and artifacts made in this style are widespread in Europe. |
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She showed me the local clays, and the black mineral rock she ground into powder with mano and metate to make the classic black colors used in Zia decoration. |
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The airless package has endless decoration possibilities, including silk screening, hot stamping, UV metalizing, color injections and custom sprays. |
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Shell suit CRACKING idea for Easter fun Kitchenware company Lakeland is gearing up for Easter with lots of creative products, including this egg decoration kit. |
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A month after his retirement he was summoned to a durbar in Rangoon, to receive the decoration that had been awarded to him by the Indian Government. |
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