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The table is mainly made of inlaid walnut, with "gilding, fruitwood, tulipwood, and marble" also used. The 'sea dogs' of its name are four fantastical chimera, that support the table top above the stretcher. These have dog's heads, human breasts, front legs with paws, but the lower body of fish. The base rests on tortoises or turtles.
Table Mountain ( Khoekhoe: Huriǂoaxa, lit. 'sea-emerging'; Afrikaans: Tafelberg) is a flat-topped mountain forming a prominent landmark overlooking the city of Cape Town in South Africa. It is a significant tourist attraction, with many visitors using the cableway or hiking to the top. [3]
Carrara marble, Luna marble to the Romans, is a type of white or blue-grey marble popular for use in sculpture and building decor. It has been quarried since Roman times in the mountains just outside the city of Carrara in the province of Massa and Carrara in the Lunigiana , the northernmost tip of modern-day Tuscany , Italy.
The playing tables, known as the alveolus, were typically made from limestone or marble. Although, leather and wood were also used. Wooden boards were likely common in ancient Rome. However, few have persisted in the archaeological record. Players would roll dice; the number it landed on determined the movement of the pieces.
Lorenzo Bartolini, (Italian, 1777–1850), La Table aux Amours (The Demidoff Table), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Marble sculpture. Marble has been the preferred material for stone monumental sculpture since ancient times, with several advantages over its more common geological "parent" limestone, in particular the ability to absorb light a small distance into the surface before ...
Marble is a metamorphic rock consisting of carbonate minerals (most commonly calcite (CaCO 3) or dolomite (CaMg (CO 3) 2 )) that have recrystallized under the influence of heat and pressure. [1] It has a crystalline texture, and is typically not foliated ( layered ), although there are exceptions. In geology, the term marble refers to ...
The most common slab format is 3040 mm x 1440 mm for Quartz and 3050 mm x 1240 mm for Breton-based marbles, but other sizes like 3040 mm x 1650 mm are produced according to market demand. Engineered stone is non porous, [7] more flexible, and harder than many types of natural stone.
Marquetry (also spelled as marqueterie; from the French marqueter, to variegate) is the art and craft of applying pieces of veneer to a structure to form decorative patterns or designs. The technique may be applied to case furniture or even seat furniture, to decorative small objects with smooth, veneerable surfaces or to freestanding pictorial ...
Marble (toy) German handmade marbles dating from the 1850s – 1880s on an antique solitaire gaming board. Kids playing 'Kancha' Marble (toy) game near Shambhunath Temple, Nepal. A marble is a small spherical object often made from glass, clay, steel, plastic, or agate. They vary in size, and most commonly are about 13 mm ( in) in diameter.
A smaller, 9.7 m (32 ft) long, base was located about 50 m (55 yd) to the south under the Middle Stoa. While it can be argued that this was the site of the earlier monument, the identification is uncertain. Cleisthenes had set up a new system of ten (instead of four) phylai around 508–507 B.C. (see Deme).