Sentence examples for of fine silver from inspiring English sources

The arrangements of comestibles, crockery and cookware and the occasional piece of fine silver or porcelain imply a humble, folksy lifestyle that appealed to his upper-class clientele.

An irresistibly charming piece of fine silver work, an incense burner in the form of a fat little bird, by Jomi, has a rounded body that Brancusi, the European Modernist, would have envied.

This is the £20 coin of the people, at an affordable price that makes it an ideal gift for everyone – made of fine silver, carrying one of our most famous designs and, most importantly, priced at just £20".

For the next four centuries (until the absorption of Greece into the Roman Empire) the Athenian drachma had an almost constant silver content (67 grains of fine silver until Alexander, 65 grains thereafter) and became the standard coin of trade in Greece and in much of Asia and Europe as well.

His work is a memorial of a specially privileged era, where the duties of a fashion photographer and the ambitions of an artist could coexist in one serenely realized surface, an age that in retrospect seems to have been one of fine silver, coolly applied.

When Edward VI again restored a coinage of fine silver, he introduced the silver crown of five shillings (the first English coin dated in Arabic numerals), which took the name of the gold piece of the same value introduced a few years earlier.

Finally, the effect of the absorption coefficient was investigated by adsorbing it on fine silver Ag islands.

Drawn largely from the museum's sizable collection of Spanish colonial art, it overflows with sumptuous textiles, family portraits bearing coats of arms, fine silver and porcelain and gilded everything — and leaves you in the strange position of marveling at the opulence of domestic life in the Spanish colonies while pondering some of the ugliest social repercussions of colonialism.

They overflow with sumptuous textiles, family portraits bearing coats of arms, fine silver and porcelain and gilded everything — arranged in the more-is-more manner of the Spanish American upper crust, with cabinets stacked in pyramids and luxury goods laid out on carpeted platforms.

The extensive show, featuring works of aluminum, bronze, fine silver, textile, stained and hand-blown antique glass, and paint, features the range of Smith's technical abilities and the legibility of her style.

Yet the visual language these contemporary projects use to address object culture itself differs from, say, naturalistic arrangements of ripe fruits and fine silver by painters in 17th-century Holland.