Sentence examples for house guardian from inspiring English sources

The Bidyogo also carve hollow cylinders covered with red cloth to house guardian spirits; the sacred object and spirit are known as iran.

At Thomas Murray a tall Indonesian stone megalith shaped like a bird's beaked profile (but with both eyes on one side, like a Picasso) communes with a 19th-century female carved wood totem intended as a house guardian from West Borneo.

While Sotheby's and Christie's still maintain a strong hold on the market, two Chinese auction houses, China Guardian — the first auction house in mainland China, established in 1993 — and Tiancheng International, are increasing their market share.

Soon thereafter his widow gave birth to a son and heir, Ladislas Posthumus, to whom Frederick V of Steiermark, as the senior member of the house, became guardian.

Numerous dependencies house the guardian's lodge, garages, stables — lined in marble, much of which remains in place — staff quarters and an enormous, old-fashioned and now dilapidated greenhouse.

As we learn in Sarah Wise's newest book, Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England [Bodley Head/Random House, 2013; Guardian Bookshop; Amazon UK; Amazon US/kindle US], lunacy laws were often abused for financial gain.

To learn more, I recently met in New York with Hu Yanyan, vice president of the world's third-largest auction house, China Guardian of Beijing.

A square anteroom houses eight guardian figures in relief.

The brick facade of the former warehouse which now houses the Guardian's visitor centre.

Arriving at Dar Khalifa he was met by the house's guardians, Hamza, Osman and Bear.

Data published by the auction houses Beijing Poly and China Guardian that put China's market in second place to the US in 2011 has been shown to be dodgy, but the country's new power in the art world is cited regularly by pundits and art investors as the reason why the global market cannot now collapse.