. 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 . tant de-ductions with reference to the dispersion ofmankind, and the commerce of the old and newworlds in prehistoric times. Quicksilver, alloyed with tin-foil, forms thereflecting surface of looking-glasses, and islargely used in the operations of gilding andsilvering metals. Quilled, Her. A term use
. 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 . tant de-ductions with reference to the dispersion ofmankind, and the commerce of the old and newworlds in prehistoric times. Quicksilver, alloyed with tin-foil, forms thereflecting surface of looking-glasses, and islargely used in the operations of gilding andsilvering metals. Quilled, Her. A term used to blazon thequills oifeathers; thus a blue feather having itsquill golden is blazoned—a feather az., quilled or.{Bouttll.) Quilts for bed-coverings, in England, wereformerly made of embroidered linen with em-blems of the evangelists in the four Durham, in 1446, in the dormitory of thepriory was a quilt cum iiij^r evangclistis incorneriis. The Very Rev. Daniel Rock (7>^- 272 WORDS USED IN tile Fabrics) suggests that this gave rise to theold nursery rhyme :— Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,Bless the bed that I lie on. Quinarius. A Roman coin = half a denarius,or five assts. Quincaillerie, Fr. A general term for allkinds of metaliurgical work in copper, brass,iron, & Fig. 571. Quince. Device of the Sforzas. Quince, Her. The ^^Porno cotogno, the em-blem of the town of Cotignola, adopted by thefounder of the Sforza family who was bornthere. The Emperor Robert of Bavaria addeda lion in 14CI as a reward of an act of bravery,to support the quince \\\i\i his left hand anddefend it with his right, adding guai a chi lotocchi ! (Fig. 571.) Quincunx, R. (i. e. five-twelfths of anything),(i) A Roman bronze coin, equivalent to five-twelfths of an as, and weighing five ounces{uncitr). (2) An arrangement of five objects ina sc]uare ; one at each corner, and one in themiddle. (3) \\\ gardening, said of trees plantedin oblique rows of three and two, or in a </«/;/-cutix
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