girandole

However, the shape of their girandole changed from being round to oblong.

He regarded a pendent girandole at the side of the cabinet.

The girandole rose into the black sky, radiating light.

Venice was especially famous for its beautiful girandole mirrors, which remained among, if not, the finest in Europe.

A handsome girandole, or branched candelabra, made in Boston demonstrates the ingeniousness of this fixture.

Day 41: The Emporotic Girandole continues its slow progress upriver.

On the west wall above a Duncan Phyfe sofa, hang a pair of gilded girandole bull's eye wall sconces.

Variants of the banjo-style clock made by others include examples with square or diamond-shaped dials, and the extremely opulent, heavily gilt "girandole" style.

A Girandole (from French, in turn from Italian girandola) is an ornamental branched candlestick or lighting device often composed of several lights.

Rome, a view of the Castel Sant'Angelo during the girandole with elegant figures watching and promenading in the foreground.

A girandole has always been, comparatively speaking, a luxurious appliance for lighting, and in the great 18th century period of French house decoration, the famous ciseleurs designed some exceedingly beautiful examples.

An elegantly faded George II gilt wood girandole in the front hall has clearly not been regilded since the 18th century - the way Mr. Gibbs likes it.

In 1924 the and his horse Girandole won the silver medal as part of the Swiss team in the team jumping competition, after finishing 14th in the individual jumping event.

Bernardo Buontalenti, byname of Bernardo Delle Girandole (c. 1531 - June 25 or 26, 1608) was an Italian stage designer, architect, theatrical designer, military engineer and artist.

Between the five windows are four sets of mirrors with elaborately carved & gilt frames consisting of two oval mirrors with a girandole between and matching marble topped pier-tables below, .

No one ever painted clothes better than Ingres, and he gave his all to what Alan Wintermute, in the catalogue, identifies as "a high-waisted velvet pelisse, a lace ruff and mantle, and girandole earrings."

The first was his skill in making the fireworks, and especially the girandole for San Giovanni (evidently he was much more talented in this line than the unnamed girandola-makers succeeding him, whom Vasari disparages as 'fantocciai').

They are a small range of hand-finished chairs, occasional tables and shelves plus a rococo girandole, or wall sconce; tableware, including frames, place mats, candlesticks and trays, and "the library collection" of ice buckets and desk accessories styled to resemble leather-bound first editions.

Thus Vasari uses the term fantoccio to describes Tribolo's selection to replace the earlier, inept designers of the Florentine fireworks displays (girandole) for the feast of San Giovanni as: 'certi fantocciai, che avevano già molt'anni fatto.

Then followed sunbursts, sky waterfalls, microprocessor-controlled fire-writers drawing pictures in the night sky (including the encircled 'T' of the Corporation logo), a penultimate girandole of two hundred rockets - each microprocessor-controlled for the exact timing to create chrysanthemums, Saturn rings and aurora borealis displays.

It includes an exhibition of 18th- and 19th-century decorative objects and paintings from the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum, including a 1775 Philadelphia Chippendale table, an 1817 girandole mirror; favrile glass vases by Louis Comfort Tiffany and an 1882 secretary desk by Herter Brothers.