Sentence examples for enamel portrait from inspiring English sources

Spurling's exhibition of Meerson's work would start with an enamel portrait, from 1901-02, that Meerson did of her sister-in-law, Katia Mann, Thomas Mann's wife.

With a brightly colored enamel portrait of William Shakespeare on one side and the bookstore's name on the other, this heavy steel sign became the icon for the shop until it closed in 1941.

Le Van Nao have been gouged out of the enamel portrait on his tombstone in the abandoned South Vietnamese military cemetery where he was buried with honors 31 years ago.

A miniature enamel portrait of Bette Davis as Queen Elizabeth I, the role she played in the 1939 film "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex," is to be auctioned on April 11 in a sale of 250 items from the actress's estate at William Doyle Galleries, 175 East 87th Street.

One such pendant, probably from northern Greece, has a minute enamel portrait of the soldier-saint Demetrios on its cover and inside a series of relic-enclosing compartments, one for holy oil, another for blood-soaked earth from the site of saint's martyrdom.

Fattorini said the pieces were then attached to the main centre panel, which holds the large, hand-painted enamel portrait of Lord Lonsdale and two smaller painted panels.

Musya Moiseyevna sits on her summer-seat while around her, Shore has arranged images of her possessions: enamel portraits of her forebears, a battered metal tin, a teapot on a brightly coloured vinyl tablecloth.

He had an obsessional feeling for the pieces he acquired; they were his "friends". Each day he solemnly said, "Good morning, young ladies" to two transfer-printed enamel portraits of the Gunning sisters, famous mid-18th-Century beauties.

Unique pieces rarely come cheaply, as was verified when a diamond-studded, gilt copper box with an enameled portrait of Louis XIV painted around 1680 came up at the Yves Saint-Laurent-Pierre Bergé sale.

His bequest, thought to be worth more than $300 million, is now housed in the Gilbert Collection at Somerset House on the banks of the Thames and comprises some 850 objects spanning the 15th to the 19th centuries, including silverware, gold snuff boxes, micromosaics and enameled portrait miniatures.

He liked to live with splendid objects: silver ewers, carved ivory sculptures, enameled portraits, gilded candlesticks, fabulous tapestries and floral rugs.