Sentence examples for pair commissioned from inspiring English sources

The commode is thought to be one of a pair commissioned for Fonthill Splendens, a Palladian mansion near Bath that was rebuilt after a 1755 fire by Alderman William Beckford, heir to an immense Jamaican sugar fortune.

Ledger's arrangement is one of a pair, commissioned by the Wigmore Hall for Felicity Lott and the Nash Ensemble, its companion being a version by David Matthews of the closing scene from Capriccio.

The pair commissioned Edward Prince to punch cut the single-sized 16 pt text that was used in all the Doves Press publications.

Another marvel in the Treasure Galleries, a quiver depicting the life of Achilles, is possibly one of a pair commissioned by Alexander the Great and mentioned in his records as gifts for a Scythian leader.

(A pair of commissioned murals depicting jazz scenes, by the artists Sandow Birk and Elyse Pignolet, adorn the lobby walls).

And at a small gallery show that also included work by Robert Stadler and Konstantin Grcic, the Dutch designer Jurgen Bey showed a pair of chairs, commissioned by a Belgian insurance company, with exaggerated earflaps extending from the front.

Two of its most impressive pieces are displayed in the Vanderlyn room: a pair of vases commissioned in 1824 by a committee of New York City merchants to honor Gov. DeWitt Clinton and his pet project, the Erie Canal, completed in 1825.

A year on and another date chimes more closely with the mood of the times the 50th anniversary this year of a seminal commentary on the state of American business schools.The "Higher Education for Business" report was written by Robert Aaron Gordon and James Edwin Howell, a pair of economists commissioned by the Ford Foundation.

In 1936, when the country was in the grip of the Depression and artists were focusing on socially conscious themes, a pair of murals commissioned by the federal Works Progress Administration were installed in a turn-of-the-century Victorian Gothic courthouse on 121st Street in Harlem.

Statues of the pair are being commissioned to stand on plinths on either side of the canal.

Despite being launched several days after Hiyō, Junyō was the first of the pair to be commissioned in May 1942.