British and Foreign Marbles and Other Ornamental Stones: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Specimens in the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge |
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Adnet Alabaster ancient Angaston Antico Bagnères-de-Bigorre Basses-Pyrénées beds Black Marbles brecciated Bristol Cathedral brown calcite Cambridge Carboniferous Carrara century chancel chiefly Church of St Cipollino columns composed CORNISH SERPENTINE crystalline limestone darker decorative material decorative purposes decorative stone deposits Derbyshire Devonian Devonshire encrinites example represents extensively employed fossils fragments Government of Queensland ground-mass Gussignies Hautes-Pyrénées instances internal decorative Island kinds of decorative known commercially large slab London Makrana Marble Quarries marble workers markings Marmor mass matrix miles mottled Museum Nord numerous occasional Onyx Onyx Marble Opus Alexandrinum ornamental patches pavement Pentelikon Percy Collection Pero Pinheiro pink Presented by Messrs Prov Purbeck quarries are situated quarries yielding Queensland represents another variety Roman Rome Ruhpolding seen Seravezza Serpentine Skyros Société Marbrière d'Avesnes sometimes known South specimen represents specimen shews staircase Statuary Marbles Tuscany variegated marble variety of marble West Rutland white calcite veins white marble white variety white veins yellow
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Page 367 - Marble, owing to its variety of colouring and exceptional beauty, has earned a reputation for decorative work not only in the United States, but in many other parts of the world.
Page 240 - Santa, and is said to have been so called on account of the door-j ambs of the four great Basilicas of St Peter, St Paul, St John Lateran, and St Maria Maggiore, in Rome, having been made of it3. A great part of the pavement of the Basilica Julia in that city is also composed of it, as well as two large columns in the centre of the facade of St Peter's4. The...
Page 358 - About ten miles from Constantine, the capital of the department of the same name, there are stalagmitic deposits that yield several varieties of Onyx Marble, some of which are highly decorative.
Page 313 - It is a scientific process that has been known for many years, but it is only recently that it has been tried out commercially on a wide scale.
Page 368 - ... Quarries, San Luis, Argentina. Presented by MM. Ducastaing & Caparror, Bordeaux. This specimen of stalagmitic limestone is a good example of that class of decorative stone from South America which is known commercially as Brazilian Onyx. It is difficult to explain how it has been so called, seeing that it is found in the Province of San Luis, in the Argentine Republic, and not in Brazil. It is a white semi-translucent stone with faint gold-coloured veinings. Some varieties display a light green...
Page 156 - ... Cretaceous, and probably the marble from the Cyclades is of the same age3. The marble quarries lie on the northern slopes of the mountain, known in classical times as Marpessa. This marble was then considered to be the rarest of statuary decorative stones. The beds ranged from five to not more than fifteen feet in thickness, intercalated with other layers of coarser texture, and sometimes traversed with dark veins and fissures; care had therefore to be exercised in quarrying, and this enhanced...
Page 176 - ... Augustus the marble was largely used. Early last century an inscription was discovered in one of the quarries, cut in the time of Tiberius, and bearing the names of Roman Consuls living from AD 16 to 24. Among the many examples of the use of this marble by the Romans, the following may be mentioned. The eleven Corinthian columns of the Temple of Neptune, built into the old Dogana near the Column of Marcus Aurelius3; the monolithic columns supporting the door of the Pantheon; many of the pillars...
Page 320 - White, op. dt., p.31ü. or shellac. It should therefore never be worked with hammer and chisel, but only with saw and grinding material, and no attempt made at other than plain surfaces. The stone was used for the pillars in the old Hall of Representatives in the Capitol at Washington, and a polished slab, 34 inches long by 20 inches wide, may be seen in the National Museum.
Page 1 - Commercially it may be said to include "all stones harder than gypsum, that are found in large masses, and are susceptible of a good polish2.
Page 305 - There are slight indications of organic structure in this example. 1 WA Parks, Report on the Building and Ornamental Stones of Canada, 1914, Vol. 1n. p.