 | Teignmouth guide - 1863 - 180 páginas
...cornices or friezes finely wrought, behind which were placed in the wall several seats, (of freestone also) cut into the form of an escallop shell, in which...apartments within were very splendid, especially the dining-room, which was adorned, besides paint, with statues and figures cut in alabaster with admirable... | |
 | Richard Harold St. Maur - 1902 - 758 páginas
...cornices or friezes finely wrought ; behind which were placed in the wall several seats of free-stone also, cut into the form of an escallop shell, in which the company, when weary, might repose themselves. " The apartments within were very splendid, especially the dining-room,... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1915 - 552 páginas
...cornices or friezes finely wrought, behind which were placed in the wall several seats of frieze-stone also cut into the form of an escallop shell, in which...apartments within were very splendid, especially the dining-room which was adorned, besides paint, with statues and figures cut in alabaster with admirable... | |
 | Todd Gray, Margery M. Rowe, Audrey M. Erskine - 1992 - 262 páginas
...cornices or friezes finely wrought; behind which were placed in the wall several seals of frieze-stone also, cut into the form of an escallop shell, in which the company, when aweary, might repose themselves.'4 Ideas associated with the Tudor architectural renaissance were seemingly slow to be put... | |
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... by several stately pillars of the same stone of great dimensions, after the Corinthian order, standing on pedestals, having cornices or friezes finely wrought, behind which were placed in the wall several seats of... 