. 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. 91. Bombards worn by King James I. of England. liquid makes in pouring out through its narrowneck. Bone Black. (See Ivory Black.)Book. In mediaeval art an attribute of thefathers of the Church ; in the hands of evange-lists and apostles it represents the Gospel. carries a book pierced
. 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. 91. Bombards worn by King James I. of England. liquid makes in pouring out through its narrowneck. Bone Black. (See Ivory Black.)Book. In mediaeval art an attribute of thefathers of the Church ; in the hands of evange-lists and apostles it represents the Gospel. carries a book pierced with a Ste])hen, St. Catherine, St. Bonaventura,and St. lipomas Aquinas also carry , Her. A border to a , Gr. A festival held at Athensin honour of Boreas, the god of the northwind. Borto or Burdo, Med. Lat. A The centre of a shield; also an archi-tectural ornament for ceilings, put where theribs of a vault meet, or in other situations. B 0 s s a g e,Arc h. A narrangement of]-)lain or orna-mental ])rojec-tions on thesurface of awall of dressedmasonry. and 93Fig. 92. Greek Bossage. represent two Greek wallsfinished in tills Boston, O. E. A flower so , It. A manufactory or artists work-shop where pottery is made. B 0 t 0 n ee,Fitchee, ofthe heraldiccross, calledalso treflee. (t^ig- 94-) B 0 ttcherWare. Early93. Bossage. Dresden pot- tery, (i) A very hard red stone-ware, made of a red clay ofOkrilla, invented at Meissen by /-I I L_ru John Frederick Bottcher. (2) \}—II—tp Iorcelain. Bottcher, finding his\v\g very heavy one day, exa-mined the powder upon it, anddiscovered it to be the fine kaolinof Aue, from which the Dresden(or Meissen) china is made,liottchers first object was to ob-tain a paste as white and as perfect as that ofthe CoREA ; he sitcceeded at his first trial, and
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