10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GOURD-SHAPED»
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gourd-shaped in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and ...
The Ching-te-chen gourd-shaped kiln seems a hybrid design that incorporated
elements of dragon, step and man-thou kiln principles. The slope seems shallow
for its length, which may mean that a chimney was needed to assist its draught, ...
Rose Kerr, Joseph Needham, Nigel Wood, 2004
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Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery
... Next Publication, 1993, p. 59. 15 Ibid.,p.60. 16 Loretta H. Wang, The Chinese
Purse: Embroidered Purses of TheCh'ing Dynasty, 2nd edn, Taipei, Taiwan: Hilit
Publishing, 1991, p. 92. These gourd-shaped purses were also used for incense.
3
The World in Miniature: Container Gardens and Dwellings in ...
Gourd-Shaped. Vessel. The caves that make up a separate paradise are difficult
to enter; entrance is by a narrow door. They are dosed vessels, with a narrow
throat, shaped like a gourd: "One enters by a doorway in the rock, but one cannot
...
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Mirei Shigemori - Rebel in the Garden: Modern Japanese ...
All together there are 15 small islands in addition to the large concrete gourd-
shaped tsukiyama. This scheme of a large gourd with smaller gourd-shaped
islands is then overlaid with a 3-5-7 stone setting [301]. In the south, a group of
three ...
5
Korean Art from the Gompertz and Other Collections in the ...
69 and 76) a gourd-shaped bottle with grapes in the Museum of Oriental
Ceramics, Osaka (pl. 128) a bottle with chrysanthemum design in the Freer
Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (pl. 138) ajar with loop handles and grape design
in the ...
Yong-i Yun, Regina Krahl, 2006
Gourd-shaped Porcelain Canteen and the Yue's Troops At the end of the
Southern Song Dynasty, there was a kiln artisan named Tulu at the Cizhouyao
Kiln. He was clever and skillful. Once he made a kind of porcelain canteen, thick
at both ...
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The Latimer collection of antiquities from Porto Rico in the ...
The left panel is a gourd-shaped space inclosed in a bead-like ridge, and has its
wide end extending quite around the bottom of the collar to the chamfer so as to
form a quasi-boss. 17107. The shoulder of this one is inverted bell-shaped.
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Detail Master IV Sabre, #1A tip; Razertip, #1S and #5S tips Here's how, step-by-
step, artist Carolyn Rushton creates a gourd- shaped pendant with shaded gourd
...
9
Mirei Shigemori: Modernizing the Japanese Garden
The gourd itself is interlarded by nine smaller gourd-shaped mounds, slightly
elevated and covered in moss. Six more similarly shaped islands are spread over
the sea of gravel with all but one covered in moss, this being a small concrete ...
10
Empire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in ...
This detail points directly to the function of the shrine as a reliquary for the nine
flame-aureoled Amitayus images it holds, each one ensconced in a double-
gourd-shaped niche. Here, however, the play is not on what is gone beyond but
on the ...
Patricia Ann Berger, 2003
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GOURD-SHAPED»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
gourd-shaped is used in the context of the following news items.
Inside the Extraordinary World of Interior Designer Axel Vervoordt
At night the gardens are lit with gourd-shaped lamps of beaten brass, fashioned, as Vervoordt tells me, from the leftovers of De Niro's brass roof ... «Vogue.com, Jul 15»
Made in St. Louis: Embellished gourds add style to your living space
... egg gourd spinners, bowls, hot-air balloons and even gourd-shaped necklaces. I use many techniques such as carving and wood burning. «STLtoday.com, Jul 15»
Decorating with Chinese porcelain
Or create a vignette of porcelain by adding a variety of jars and vases in different shapes such as long necked, gourd-shaped or square and in ... «News & Observer, Jun 15»
Buckeye Martinfest on Saturday in Coventry Township, new natural …
The group has spent $25,000 on 420 gourd-shaped martin houses to encourage the birds to nest on the Portage Lakes, which have been ... «Akron Beacon Journal, Jun 15»
Jeff Mitton: Cliff swallows mine mud to make nests
Gourd-shaped nests have entrances near the bottom, and the entrance may be elongated to a tube up to 2 inches long. The inside of the nest is ... «Boulder Daily Camera, Jun 15»
"Creative Hong Kong" thematic exhibition to be held in Tianjin
... the magical and fun-filled "Creative Hong Kong" exhibition is formed by two uniquely designed gourd-shaped "hulu" houses, each measuring ... «7thSpace Interactive, Jun 15»
Now's the time to attract Baltimore orioles to your yard
The female is in charge of weaving the rather gourd-shaped, pendulous nest consisting of plant fibre, vines and even strips of plastic, rope and ... «Orillia Packet & Times, Jun 15»
A good year for the rosés
... to be there largely as a nostalgic, mass-market curiosity (its gourd-shaped bottle the base of a million impromptu candelabras [candlesticks?] ... «The Guardian, May 15»
Beyond Green Jade
... years to collect jade in the right size and shape for a floral-design brooch and a necklace of diamonds and gourd-shaped yellow jadeite. «New York Times, May 15»
Swallows ruffle UCSC in bird brouhaha
They build conical, gourd-shaped mud nests where they lay three to four eggs and raise hatchlings during the nesting season, which runs Feb. «Santa Cruz Sentinel, May 15»
