Sentence examples for decorative devices from inspiring English sources
The book might then be given to an illuminator, who supplied any needed illustrations or decorative devices.
Some of the decorative devices employed have been stylistically related to those used by the printer Johannes Gutenberg.
Until that time, they had produced little more than simple imitations of European glasses, at best interesting and often very handsome combinations of various decorative devices and traditions.
It is full of elaborate decorative devices, flowers and symbols which surround four male figures, who had generally been assumed to be allegorical.
Decorated title page, f. 1r, with border, in black and red ink composed of various decorative devices: in the upper margin a bar border with a central semicircle flanked by stylized scrolls in black and red.
The decorative devices include soft-toy animal-head "trophies" (with "Lifestyle hunting trophy 1994" on the plaques) and old skis and poles for once used to good effect, the skis cladding a 30m stretch of wall above the fine, curving main staircase, and the poles formed into a globe sculpture above the hotel's front door.
This crazing of the glaze was sometimes deliberately induced as a decorative device by the Chinese.
One decorative device, the lily pad, is of particular importance, as no European prototype is known.
The arrangement of plant materials truly became an art and an important decorative device in the 17th century.
They were great architectural patrons and constructed numerous mosques, madrasahs (Islāmic religious schools), hospitals, orphanages, baths, caravansaries, bridges, and türbes notable for their decorative masonry, elaborately ornamented portals, and use of Kūfic script as an architectural decorative device.
Mr. Shimaoka washed the vessels with a white liquid clay, wiping away the excess and leaving a painted tracery in the braided impressions, a Korean decorative device introduced to Japan in the 16th century and popularized by tea masters on tea bowls.
