Traditionally, Koreans believed that objects fashioned in the shape of talismanic animals invoked the power of these animals, both to ensure the protection of their property and to bestow the blessings of wealth, health, fecundity, and happiness.

Such objects, fashioned without love, had no soul.

The 68 vessels and jewelry items in "Clear as Crystal, Red as Flame: Later Chinese Glass" reveal how deftly artisans imitated ceramics and stones in objects fashioned from the 14th to the 19th centuries.

Collectors from all over the world went to the firm for advice and to buy the exquisite objects fashioned for the Imperial family and the old nobility.

It was a very curious object fashioned of gold and having deeply cut upon its face a rough image of an ape holding a flower in its right paw.

IT is not a big house - at 29 by 30 feet and three stories high - but it is made of aluminum and glass and was put together with nuts and bolts like an object fashioned from an Erector set.

In some places off in the distance, Odo could see the features of a changeling world, the objects and structures fashioned by the Founders for their own satisfaction in emulating.

Two later clay tablet copies of an inscription recording an unspecified object fashioned for the god Nanna were found by Leonard Woolley in a scribal school house in Ur.

The twisted snakes that acted as ferrules on ceremonial staffs are amongst the less elaborate objects fashioned in this way.

At this point, the officer was stabbed in the eye with a sharp object, possibly fashioned out of a comb.