. An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c, with their derivations . Fig. 514. Egg and dart and thence called quarter-round. (2) The echinusof the Doric capital. (3) An ornament composedof eggs, separated either by tongues fFig. 277)or by darts (Fig. 514). (See EcHixus.) Ovum, Egg, egg-shapedballs which were plac-ed upon the spina ofa circus, on a s
. An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c, with their derivations . Fig. 514. Egg and dart and thence called quarter-round. (2) The echinusof the Doric capital. (3) An ornament composedof eggs, separated either by tongues fFig. 277)or by darts (Fig. 514). (See EcHixus.) Ovum, Egg, egg-shapedballs which were plac-ed upon the spina ofa circus, on a stonetable supported by fourcolumns. (Fig. 515.)There was a secondtable at the other endof the spina, on whichwere placed smallmarble dolphins. OvumOrphiiUiiL, or Orphicegg, was the mysterioussymbol employed byOrpheus to denote theprocreative principlewith which the wholeearth is pervaded. Oviun aui^uiuum was anoval ball of glass worn by the Druids roundtheir neck ; so named because, as was asserted,it was produced from the mingled saliva of twoserpents {angiies\. Owl. With tne Athenian^ the owl was the. Fig. 515. balls. 240 WORDS USED IX emblem of prudence and wisdom ; the bird ofAthene. In Christian art it symbolizes darknessand solitude, and hence unbelief. Ox. In Christian art the attribute of ; the emblem of the priesthood and ofsacrifice. In representations of the Nativity anox and an ass are commonly introduced. Ox-gall. The bile or bitter fluid secreted bythe liver of the ox ; when refined it is used inoil and water-colour painting to fix and thickenthe colours. (See Gall.) I Oxford Ochre. An o.\ide of iron used as apigment of a brownish yellow in oil andwater colours. (See Ochre.) Oxide of Zinc. A u<hite pigment which ismore permanent in resisting gases, than thewhite lead. Oxides of Copper. The pigments derivedfrom these were well known to the pigments are Blue Vcrditer, BrunswickGreen, Verdigris, and Ema-ald or ScheelesGreen (
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