The columns of the whole church on the ground floor are of porphyry, and on the upper storey of verd antique. |
It measures nearly seven inches in length, by one and a half inch in greatest breadth, and is covered with verd antique. |
The baldecchino is supported by four twisted columns formed of small rounded pieces of verd antique closely joined together. |
It is engraved here about two-thirds of the size of the original, which was thickly encrusted with verd antique when discovered. |
In the boudoirs of the sultanas they were sometimes of verd antique, and incrusted with lapis lazuli. |
This marble is probably but a variation of the verd antique, which it closely resembles in all its colorings. |