Richly detailed Rotunda Lobby, including restoration of the "scagliola" faux marble wainscot and recreation of the long-lost mural over the entrance doors. From Wordnik.com. [Gothamist] Reference
The interior red scagliola columns of the vestibule are in pairs, with white bases and capitals, the latter combining the lotus-leaf with the volute. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference
And Mrs. Browning laughed too, as Flush flung himself down on the bedroom floor and slept soundly upon the arms of the Guidi family inlaid in scagliola. From Wordnik.com. [Flush: a biography] Reference
Having discovered a transcendental route between the beautiful and the grotesque, this “Militant Ornamentalist” is self-taught in the ancient method of Italian scagliola. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Wallacavage « DESIGNPHILADELPHIA] Reference
It is above thirty feet high, and fifty-seven feet and a half long; and on each side it has wings or recesses, behind insulated columns of scagliola, in imitation of Egyptian granite. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 531, January 28, 1832] Reference
The scagliola decorations in the chapel were by an Englishman, Father +Hugford+, who excelled in various branches of natural philosophy, and in the art of imitating marble by that composition called scagliola. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
For the morning sun fell aslant on the great glass globe with gold fish in it, which stood on a scagliola pillar in front of the ready-spread bachelor breakfast-table, and by the side of this breakfast-table was a group which would have made any room enticing. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Bede] Reference
The room is divided into three parts by two ranges of eight elegant Ionic pillars, so disposed that each may form a separate apartment; the central part being lighted by a superb dome, supported on 16 dwarf columns of scagliola marble, corresponding with the exterior design of the tower. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 567, September 22, 1832] Reference
I have been desired to write to you for two scagliola tables; will you get them?. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1] Reference
The walls are of scagliola marble and the ceilings ornamented brilliantly in fresco. From Wordnik.com. [Views a-foot] Reference
The commission for the scagliola tables was given me without any dimensions; I suppose there is a common size. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1] Reference
The shutters let in a clink of light; the scagliola pavement gleams faintly in it; the whole place is bathed in. From Wordnik.com. [Picture and Text 1893] Reference
The scagliola tables are arrived, and only one has suffered a little on the edge: the pattern is perfectly pretty. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference
Stucco and whitewash had been lavished upon it inside and out, and pallid scagliola did duty everywhere for marble. From Wordnik.com. [Monsieur Maurice] Reference
The walls under the galleries are covered in scagliola marble, and the arched ceiling is embellished with heraldic designs. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
Overhead and around us the same evanescent frescoes, under foot the same scagliola volutes, unrolled themselves interminably. From Wordnik.com. [Crucial Instances] Reference
Daily Sun photo/Janet Jacobs The faux marble columns in the Navarro County courthouse are finished with a process called scagliola. From Wordnik.com. [Corsicana Daily Sun, Corsicana, Texas Homepage] Reference
Currently showcasing their extensive collection of scagliola stone and limestone pieces with wine, hors d'oeuvres, and some design chat. From Wordnik.com. [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference
From above the radiance of the gas ` ` sunlight '' streamed down over the marble pillars, and glanced on gilded cornices and panels of scagliola. From Wordnik.com. [Ginx's Baby. His Birth and other Misfortunes: A Satire] Reference
The floors are of marble mosaic, the sides of green or purple scagliola, and the vaulted ceilings covered with raised ornaments on a ground of gold. From Wordnik.com. [Views a-foot] Reference
Over the principal entrance is a well executed head of Homer, and in the entrance-hall which has a tesselated pavement, are four scagliola columns with Corinthian capitals. From Wordnik.com. [Three Centuries of a City Library an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Norwich Public Library Established in 1608 and the present Public Library opened in 1857] Reference
Its floor is the richest mosaic of wood of different colors, the sides are of polished scagliola marble, and the ceiling a dazzling mixture of sculpture, painting and gold. From Wordnik.com. [Views a-foot] Reference
There are polished pillars of purple-blue, and red scagliola, hugs china vases -- oriental, Dresden, unpolished Sevres -- and glittering timepieces of every shape and device. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1] Reference
So see, ma'am -- (unrolling them) -- scagliola porphyry columns supporting the grand dome -- entablature, silvered and decorated with imitative bronze ornaments; under the entablature, A. From Wordnik.com. [The Absentee] Reference
In politics we call this practice calamity-howling, whether in tornado-swept Kansas, blizzard-bitten Iowa or boss-ridden New York. in literature it is mere charlatanry, mere scagliola, made for sale. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10] Reference
The productions of the rival photographer were distinguished by a pillar of variegated marble, or possibly scagliola, on which the person portrayed leaned, bent, or propped himself in every phase of graceful discomfort. From Wordnik.com. [Collections and Recollections] Reference
The platform arrangements for departing and arriving trains are good, simple, and comprehensive; but the waiting-rooms, refreshment stand, and other conveniences are as ill-contrived as possible; while a vast hall with magnificent roof and scagliola pillars, appears to have swallowed up all the money and all the light of the establishment. From Wordnik.com. [Rides on Railways] Reference
A half, and twenty-three and a half high, divided by a screen of columns and pilasters of scagliola, into two unequal parts, the first forming a sort of ante-library to the other; both are surrounded by bookcases of oak, and a gallery runs round the whole, above which is another range of bookcases. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 531, January 28, 1832] Reference
But he was growing an old dog now, and he tended more and more to lie not even under the fountain — for the cobbles were too hard for his old bones — but in Mrs. Browning’s bedroom where the arms of the Guidi family made a smooth patch of scagliola on the floor, or in the drawing-room under the shadow of the drawing-room table. From Wordnik.com. [Flush: a biography] Reference
It is all over marble, maplewood, looking-glasses, arabesques, ormolu, and scagliola. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Snobs] Reference
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