But the cartouche's evident hollowness, not to mention Murillo's modern dress, insists that the painter has invented this looking-glass marble object as a game or a provocation.
The classification of the provenance of a marble object is therefore by no means an easy task [9].
They felt very much like the linen, marble, and brass objects in her office.
In the training session, each rat was introduced for 5 min in the arena containing two identical objects (marble or dice).
Food resources are represented by three sizes of round objects: marbles, garbanzo beans and popcorn kernels.
It didn't: The souks today are filled with shiny objects and marble floors.
Dating from 5,000 B.C. to the eighth century A.D., the antiquities include neolithic and Cycladic marble sculptures, Near Eastern objects, and works by Franks and Goths - more than a few of them masterworks.
The artist has filled not one but two museums with hundreds of objects in marble, gold and bronze, crystal, jade and malachite – heroes, gods and leviathans all supposedly lost in a legendary shipwreck 2,000 years ago and now raised from the Indian Ocean at Hirst's personal expense.
The object of marble games is to roll, throw, drop, or knuckle marbles against an opponent's marbles, often to knock them out of a prescribed area and so win them.
Coordination and other manual skills develop from cumulative childhood experiences received by manipulating toys such as marbles, jackstones, and other objects that require the use of hands and bodies.
