Sentence examples for whose decoration from inspiring English sources

Painted enamels are termed by the Chinese yangci ("foreign porcelain"), the palette of colours used being the same as with enamelled porcelain, whose decoration under foreign influence is called yangcai ("foreign colours").

The queen's target was the Hall of Mirrors, the palace's chief reception room, 83 feet long, 35 feet wide, whose decoration was never completed apart from the marble and gold patterns on the walls.

The 13th-century Gawdawpalin temple at Pagan, for example, consists of a rectangular hall with a large closed entrance porch; the hall is surmounted by a tall but narrow second story whose decoration repeats that of the lower story; the whole building is crowned by a four-faced tower with a curved profile.

Inside are the tombs of kings Victor Emmanuel II and III, along with that of the artist Raphael, whose decoration of the papal apartments in the Vatican is second only to Michelangelo's Pieta sculpture, the Vatican dome and the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel as artistic treasures of the church in Rome.

Sometimes this is done deliberately, as in a Gothic Revival prie-dieu from mid-19th-century Vienna or a noted late-17th-century pedestal clock in the Met's Wrightsman galleries for French decorative arts, whose decorations represent a fairly mind-boggling synthesis of Egyptian sphinxes, Grecian urns and Renaissance grotesques.

General Palmer, whose decorations included the Silver Star and Bronze Star, was known for a quietly confident leadership style.

Of the 22 Asian-Americans whose decorations were upgraded to the Medal of Honor, all but two were Japanese-Americans and members of either the 442nd or the 100th Infantry Battalion, which the 442nd absorbed in 1944.

There are Zia, Zuni and Acoma earthenware pots whose decorations — variously geometric, zoomorphic, floral and calligraphic — simply dazzle, and a Navajo drawing for a sand painting and a weaving based on one, dominated by swastikas achieved by adding semi-abstract, postlike figures to the four arms of large plus signs.

"Gay people are very clean," Mr. Koeppel says as we tour the indeed spotless 3,000 square feet of a lavish spread whose decorations include Tiffany lamps, stuffed toy animals, a David statue, Mr. Hsiao's impressive book collection and a Chagall or two.

As one stands in Armstrong's smallish study (whose decorations include, among other things, a portrait of the trumpeter painted by Tony Bennett), it is impossible not to be touched to the heart by the aspiration that is visible wherever you look.

There's also a severely plain black one, whose only decoration (using gold thread) is a white tattered fan like those used by Japanese lords to command their troops during battle -- possibly a symbol for never saying die.