Sentence examples for based on an antique from inspiring English sources
"Even though it's based on an antique".
The design of Theodore's smartphone-like gadget was based on an antique Deco cigarette lighter.
For covers he favors Flemish-style oil paintings of food and illustrates recipes with spidery pen drawings and boring fonts — a look Kimball based on an antique brochure for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, believing it would make the magazine feel, in his words, "authoritative and timeless".
This hierarchy system, based on an antique patriarchal family model, fuels the dangers of financial dependency within a relationship.
Writing for ARTnews, William E. Wallace, of Washington University in Saint Louis, says Cavalieri may have tried his hand at drawing a classicized head, perhaps based on an antique sculpture, during a lesson with Michelangelo.
The black-and-gold feature wall in my bedroom is based on a Lanvin screen and antique Yemeni tassels hang from the curtains.
The show, which is based on a BBC version, features antique appraisers and dealers traveling from city to city.
Based on an existing novel.
A 16-inch-long dragon-shape door handle is cast in bronze and based on a 19th-century design; $595 from Liz's Antique Hardware in Los Angeles, (323 939-4403 or www.lahardware.com.com
