How To Use Cartouche In A Sentence
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They were stamped upon the bezel of the ring, which had the shape of the cartouche used to enclose royal names.
LION IN THE VALLEY
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Each is massively framed by an ornate gilt rococo cartouche carved by Giovanni Giuliani in 1706.
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The central figure is St Anne, standing on a pedestal that is decorated with female hybrid creatures, which frame a ritual inscription in a cartouche.
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The plaster frieze with cartouches and swags of fruit and the luminous stained-glass panels over the windows give the room a baroque glamour.
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George hadn't spared the oil money and from the street the Warfield, with its fleurs-de-lys and cartouches, showed it.
The Black Ice
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As the son and successor of King Huni and Meresankh I, he was the first king to use the oval cartouche, as opposed to the rectangular serekh, to frame his name when it was written down.
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Enclosing the scarab was a framework of gold which had held, among other elements, a pair of cartouches containing the names of a pharaoh.
The Curse of the Pharaohs
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There were a ton of cool things in Dr. El-Baz's office, including a photomural of the space shuttle behind his desk and a cartouche with his name written out in hieroglyphics.
Zoe P. Strassfield: The Best First Day of School Ever!
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The cartouche or oval ring enclosing the name of Tutankhamun was found on objects throughout his tomb.
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November 16, 1990: Iphigénie à Aulis, by Euripides at the Cartoucherie.
Ariane Mnouchkine.
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A preliminary examination of one of the stelae revealed that it was divided into two parts, the upper section bearing the cartouche of Amenemhet III - who ruled in about 1800 BC.
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The exuberant phoenix motifs are enclosed within an ogival cartouche, so called because its outlines echo those of a pointed Gothic arch.
Bright and Shiny Things
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Moslems: in one of the Mameluke Soldans 'sepulchres near Cairo I found a granite slab bearing the "cartouche" (shield) of Khufu
Arabian nights. English
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To the captives, the cartouche was a message of hope, as a sign that they were not outside the sphere of Egypt.
A Desert Drama Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko"
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The plaster frieze with cartouches and swags of fruit and the luminous stained-glass panels over the windows give the room a baroque glamour.
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There are four masks - but only two designs - with cartouche surrounds in the four corners of the grotto at the springing of the ribs, notionally supporting the roof.
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The beautiful figured mahogany drawer fronts are beaded and veneered and the early, carved cartouche is original.
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My dream is to find a statue of Cleopatra—with a cartouche," says Goddio.
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Her cartouche is sculptured in the space between her right arm and left knee, but the hieroglyphic characters have been erased, and it is no longer legible.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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The insubordinate ringleader is dismissed with 'yellow furlough,' yellow infamous thing they call cartouche jaune: but ten new ringleaders rise in his stead, and the yellow cartouche ceases to be thought disgraceful.
The French Revolution
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This is a gorgeous Victorian solid sterling silver vesta case with beautiful hand chased decoration and initialled cartouche.
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The back is conceived as a cartouche surmounted by arms, a device which features prominently in contemporary Roman design books by Domenico de Rossi, Giovanni Giardini and others.
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Each is massively framed by an ornate gilt rococo cartouche carved by Giovanni Giuliani in 1706.
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He hit upon the idea after noticing that an image on the cartouche above the hall's south steps looked a bit like a gnome.
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The shape is entirely within the bounds of late baroque taste, and no important asymmetrical motifs are evident in the elaborate scrollwork except in a decorative cartouche on the top.
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The lantern is suspended from chains fixed to the center of a shell cartouche with a representation of another royal crown painted on the ceiling of the Queen's Staircase.
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Champollion wondered if the first hieroglyph in the cartouche, the disc, might represent the sun, and then he assumed its sound value to be that of the Coptic word for sun, ‘ra’.
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As the Vincennes factory was originally set up to rival the products of Meissen, the gilding around the front cartouche is still in the Meissen style with its bat wings, trellis, and stiff peaks.
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On its back, he shaped shells and cartouches, or fanciful scrolls, which communicated that this chair was not meant to stiffly line the wall but rather to be moved about for impromptu use.
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A symbol called a cartouche is like a pharaoh's stamp with his or her name on it.
Archive 2010-05-01
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Revere enhanced the coat of arms with an asymmetrical cartouche, a curling trompe l' oeil motto scroll, and plants - all rococo devices.
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Each is massively framed by an ornate gilt rococo cartouche carved by Giovanni Giuliani in 1706.
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I was about to suggest that the golden ring bearing the royal cartouche may be significant.
LION IN THE VALLEY
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For the hieroglyphics, why not include a "cartouche" I don't know the English translation with Nefertari's name?
Covers, Egyptian Style
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Beneath an elegant cornice of acanthus-leaf scrolls, the top two floors are delineated by a stringcourse of shells, tridents, and sea creatures, and a symmetrical pattern of square and circular cartouches, the latter of which depict a majestic eagle-like bird puffing out its breast and extending its wings.
Ruffled Feathers on Fifth Avenue
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Their names are inscribed above their heads, with a text describing the occasion presented in a cartouche.
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The armchair's densely carved scallops and shellwork, rosebuds, floral bouquets, and cartouche-shaped back are loosely based on the rococo style as reinterpreted in French pattern books of the mid-nineteenth century.
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The great majority of Stone's other armorial cartouches were for funerary monuments, while the Russell / Brydges cartouches were obviously designed with the spirit of the grotto in mind.
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They are decorated with stylised masks on cartouches, from which there extend swags carrying fruit.
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But there in her sanctuary, I could still find her name inscribed in her cartouche, the ring of eternity.
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I was about to suggest that the golden ring bearing the royal cartouche may be significant.
LION IN THE VALLEY
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The wood of this cartouche is the same as that of the basilisks upon the arms, being very hard and close-grained, and of a tawny, yellow hue, like boxwood.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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Indeed, they frequently serve as frames or cartouches for coats of arms, personal devices, or statues of patron saints venerated by religious institutions.
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The surviving cartouche designs resemble a rooster and fragments of two so-called seahorses.
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But it is chiefly on sculpture and architecture that ornamental devices act as cartouches for heraldic display.
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The exceptionally well-proportioned case of richly figured mahogany original except for the cartouche, finials, feet, and dial-arch molding, is a monument to the rococo style.
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Nine mummies were lying there, inside coffins which were partly covered, partly uncovered, and mostly bearing royal cartouches.