The low relief scenes are not particularly good, and yellowish streaks mar the otherwise off-white color with a faintly greenish tinge.
Modern reconstruction work has even recovered a tiny way station of the 12th dynasty, a gem of temple building decorated with some of the finest surviving relief scenes and texts.
Manuscript illuminations (see Ada group) and the relief scenes of ivory and metalwork (sculpture in the round was rare) reflect an interest in copying classical motifs and models; the landscapes illustrating the Utrecht Psalter (c. 830; Utrecht, Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit), for example, suggest the murals that adorned the walls of Roman villas.
The relief scenes of Hellenistic art became even more densely crowded in later Roman sarcophagi, as for example in the 2nd-century Portonaccio sarcophagus, and various styles and forms emerged, such as the columnar type with an "architectural background of columns and niches for its figures".
Another brush pot, in bamboo, has a bas-relief scene of men playing cuju, a kind of kickball.
A bas-relief scene of horses, waves and a central winged figure was placed over the stage's proscenium arch, finished in gold-toned metal leaf the work jointly designed by Stackpole and Robert Boardman Howard.
These chapels have well-preserved barrel ceilings and are decorated with low-relief scenes that retain much original colour.
The best-known examples consist of the painted bas-relief scenes on the timbers and gables of the men's meetinghouses in Palau.
The library's exterior is classic Art Deco style with bas-relief scenes from Shakespeare plays, while its interior reflects the Tudor-Stuart style of vaulted ceilings, richly paneled walls, terra-cotta and tile floors, and windows of leaded and stained glass.
Built of red brick with limestone trim, the buildings featured bas-relief scenes from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.
It's a welcome relief from scenes of arguing about divorce around the kitchen table".
