The piano she has played is not any old keyboard but Cole Porter's piano, a brown, hand-painted midsize Steinway grand adorned with decorative scrolls and courtly, bewigged dancing figures.
The bed was made from ash wood, held together with a variety of iron plates, cleats, staples, nails, stays, and decorative scrolls.
The Manjushri images are on a common pedestal (85 cm high), painted recently to give an overall picture of fright since the decorative scrolls are derived from the tails of Makara surrounded by images of animals, gods and symbols.
Ashide-e, (Japanese: "reed-script picture"), decorative, cursive style of Japanese calligraphy, the characters of which resemble natural objects, that is used to decorate scrolls, stationery, and lacquerware.
The Yamato-e style was partly native in inspiration and partly derived from one of the styles of decorative wall and scroll painting of T'ang dynasty China.
Moroccan Jews keep Torah scrolls in decorative wooden cases, while German Jews keep them neatly clothed in fabric.
Irish monks sailed to northern England in 635, taking with them an ancient Celtic decorative tradition of curvilinear forms: scrolls and spirals, "trumpet" forms, and a double curve, or shield, motif known as a pelta.
Eventually, rabbis specified which words, exactly, and how to affix them: the modern custom is to place a parchment scroll inside a small decorative case — a mezuzah — and screw it to the doorjamb at an angle.
