Sentence examples for trial piece from inspiring English sources

Characteristic German forms are columbine cups (the trial piece for entry into the Nürnberg Goldsmith's Guild) and standing cups such as the Diana Cup by Hans Petzolt.

The so-called "Sacred and Profane Love" of 1512 15 (Borghese Gallery, Rome) is, in a sense, Titian's trial piece in which he shows himself capable of rivaling and surpassing Giorgione in Giorgione's own terms.

In such a case assumed, the tolerance of the UMBA to direct sunlight input was evaluated by using a trial piece beforehand because 6000 K blackbody radiation at the wavelength of 10 µm (4348 W m−2 str−1µm−1) is much greater than the 300 K radiation (10 Wm−2 str−10m−10.

One piece is known without a mint mark; this was most likely a trial piece, prepared and owned by Mint Chief Engraver John R. Sinnock and later sold from his estate.

Numismatic expert Mike Fuljenz, in his book on the gold pieces with Indian designs struck in the early 20th century, suggests that this coin was a trial piece, resulting from the test of new dies.

Today, the 1907 ultra-high relief $20 trial pieces are highly prized by collectors, not only for their beauty but also for their rarity.

Most were probably trial pieces made for the guild rank of journeyman or master by silversmiths who were too poor to supply objects in precious metal.

Editor and poet Pat Boran wrote to Heaney in early 2013 asking him if he would allow two previously uncollected poems, Dublin 4 and Beacons at Bealtaine, to be included in the anthology, as well as two other poems The Strand and Viking Dublin: Trial Pieces, which are already well-known.

The paintings may start from sketches, from the stimulus of finds or found objects or trial pieces.

"Trials" pieces together a time line of what it calls Mr. Kissinger's offenses, and the case it makes is too one-sided.

In the very first trial a piece of dry food was positioned on the other side of the barrier to get the animal motivated to participate in further trials.