Their large, white and perfectly formed lustrous orbs were eagerly sought by pearl merchants, first in Bombay and later in Paris.Over the past decade the Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) has been quietly acquiring treasures made with pearls whenever they come up for auction.
The sculptures' elongated features, lustrous surfaces and streamlined forms epitomized the aesthetics already admired by Europeans.
The Communists nationalized Czechoslovakia's glass factories, but artisans managed to experiment with strange forms and lustrous colors.
The virtuosic violinist Gil Shaham was in inspired form, playing with lustrous tone, brilliant technique and sweeping energy.
The Favrile glass invented by Louis Comfort Tiffany, with its flowing shapes derived from naturalistic forms and its lustrous surface, was much admired and particularly influenced glassmakers in central Europe.
Exceptions to this generalised description occur at the boundaries of the category: hydrogen has a comparatively low electronegativity due to its unique atomic structure; iodine, in crystalline form, is semi-lustrous, and a semiconductor in the direction of its layers, both of these attributes being consistent with incipient metallic character.
But the close-ups of sculptured faces -- an African power figure in lustrous carved wood, a dead European queen in bronze, a pair of Staffordshire monkeys -- start to form a slow-motion animation, a brief exegesis on art's presence and its grip on our attention.
This technique will build up a lustrous coat of poly on your wooden thumb drive.
Grey tin usually has the appearance of a grey micro-crystalline powder, and can also be prepared in brittle semi-lustrous crystalline or polycrystalline forms.
The village's company, the Nrityagram Dance Ensemble, is a lustrous exemplar of Odissi, one of India's classical dance forms.
