In medieval Europe, skewers of wood, bone, ivory, silver, gold, or brass were used, elaborately fashioned for persons of wealth and simply made of wood for common people.
At the checkout is a bowl of bone and silver candle snuffers at $15: grab a handful.
The Roman collection encompasses marble and bronze portraits, sculptures of gods, satyrs, and nymphs, sarcophagi and funerary monuments, glass vessels and carved bone reliefs, silver and gold coins, sealstones of agate and chalcedony, statuettes in bronze, amber, ivory, and clay, and a spectacular silver-gilt wine cup.
Rosen's Picks: Jessica Chastain ("Zero Dark Thirty"), Marion Cotillard ("Rust and Bone"), Jennifer Lawrence ("Silver Linings Playbook"), Naomi Watts ("The Impossible"), Quvenzhane Wallis ("Beasts of the Southern Wild").
ACTRESS Jessica Chastain – "Zero Dark Thirty" Marion Cotillard – "Rust and Bone" Jennifer Lawrence – "Silver Linings Playbook" Emmanuelle Riva – "Amour" Quvenzhané Wallis – "Beasts of the Southern Wild" Naomi Watts – "The Impossible".
They are made of precious materials; their flesh is gold, their bones are silver, and their hair is lapis lazuli.
It hovers protectively over a wire-mesh enclosure housing a mysterious assemblage of bone, gold, wood, silver, rubber, and glass; it's draped with a large fragment of vintage tapestry.
It hovers protectively over a wire-mesh enclosure housing a mysterious assemblage (of bone, gold, wood, silver, rubber, and glass), and it's draped with a large fragment of vintage tapestry.
The day before, he had taken his first halting steps on his new prosthetic leg: a sleek silver bone of titanium and carbon fiber with a microprocessor in the knee that recalibrates the gait 50 times a second.
She disappears into each role: Ree in Winter's Bone, Tiffany in Silver Linings Playbook, Rosalyn in American Hustle, and the beloved dystopian heroine Katniss Everdeen.
