The pieces range from the Neolithic -- a Huan disc, an adz blade in jade and a mottled green stone disc -- to a Tang period bone hairpin and a white Qing imperial seal.
It inhabits alpine pastures and grassland with a very heterogeneous composition of open terrain strewn with stones and mottled by various types of short grasses and herbaceous plants.
The red-stone exterior had mottled with age and lichen into fine oxblood tweed.
Oram created a towering back wall of stone-like pillars mottled with age, a touch that's echoed in the wood planking that lines the floor.
During a recent tour of one of the houses, Mr. Petrarca was most animated after descending to its dank stone vault, where water dripped from cast iron columns and mottled brick arches.
In a sheltered corner, beside an old stone wall, with a plain headstone made of Kilkenny limestone mottled by raindrops, it is unassuming, modest, engraved with a few words: "Walk on air against your better judgement," from his poem The Gravel Walks.
York & Sawyer also carefully mixed the stone on the facade, using both the traditional Indiana limestone and a richly mottled Ohio sandstone.
Stones that were chipped and frayed in the original, jutting out or worn away, eroded to slivers, mottled with 20 centuries of dirt and decay, are here as straight and regular as Lego.
Ringger's lighting here was dim, mottled.
But soon after, their surface became mottled.
