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Always the terra-cotta insists on its own physicality, the forms bearing traces of their making.
The thickest segments of the main tubes have a core of vesicular glass that is a terra-cotta color.
The philodendrons, the ficus, and the Swedish ivy in their terra-cotta planters had wilted.
On one side, soft shades of terra-cotta, cream and black depict richly patterned, folded and sashed kimonos.
The Babylonians made pottery, terra-cotta sculptures, and writing surfaces with the clay they had.
His architectural sculpture and terra-cotta portrait busts of leading citizens were much admired in their day.
Precast copings, window lintels, and string courses have a terra-cotta color, without exposed aggregate.
For the realization of her six artworks, overlaid with precious stones, she abandoned the bronze for the terra-cotta.
A clay which includes a part of terra-cotta heated at high temperature, then crushed and incorporated into some fresh earth.
The angled east wall of the living room invites transition to the east terrace, carried out in terra-cotta pavers.
Chili reds, lemon yellows, and turquoise blues interplay with terra-cotta and cactus greens.
Those who find orange too strong often find such as terra-cotta, peach or amber more acceptable as they retain some of the attributes of orange.
In most cases, however, the brick, carved stone, or terra-cotta ornament would survive far longer than decoration executed in wood.
The authentic approach would be to add talc to slip, and then paint that onto the unfired terra-cotta.
Appointed in a melding of neo-Classical and Mediterranean styles, the spa welcomes guests with Roman murals, Hellenic sculptures, fluted pillars, and terra-cotta tiles.
I added rolled-rim terra-cotta pots on this edge, spaced 10 feet apart.
This division also comprises a business supplying technical ceramics for the terra-cotta industry, as well as a roofing products distribution company.
In France, the building materials division benefited from the recovery in new individual housing construction, mostly in the manufacturing of tiles and terra-cotta bricks.
Both glazed and unglazed terra-cotta pottery pieces are sold in markets.
Soil dries faster in terra-cotta pots, high temperatures and wind.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Three of Nebuchadrezzar's terra-cotta cylinders have been found at Tahpanhes.
He came to a stop, and sat staring at the terra-cotta Spanish floor-tiles.
The slab of terra-cotta was the most obvious material for its reception.
Here the terra-cotta pipes are about eight inches in diameter.
The terra-cotta work is, I think, also too free for Fermo Stella.
Directly ahead of him loomed the grunewald, a splendid tower of white brick and terra-cotta.
Fig. 362 shows a terra-cotta spindle-whorl from Malacate, Nicaragua.
A Hercules within, and the quadriga upon the gable of the same temple, both also of terra-cotta, are ascribed to this artist.
The too lachrymose Madonna in terra-cotta, 256, already ushers in the decadence.
No. 19 is a splendid terra-cotta vase from the Palace of Priam.
It is noted for its terra-cotta ware, clocks, and Museum of Antiquities.
Today the original terra-cotta flooring and bas-reliefs are visible, while plaster walls, wood wainscoting, and a fireplace have been replicated.
She stood in the Square of the Annunziata and saw in the living terra-cotta those divine babies whom no cheap reproduction can ever stale.
The dissecting-room was a large apartment painted like the corridors, the upper part a rich salmon and the dado a dark terra-cotta.
Kimball specialized in ornate architecture in various revival styles, and terra-cotta provided him with the material to decorate his buildings.
A painting upon slabs of terra-cotta from cre is perhaps still older.
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