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Verd antique (obsolete French, from Italian,
verde antico, "ancient green"), also
called verde antique,
marmor thessali****, or Ophite, is a serpentinite...
- floor, like the
Thessalian verd antique "marble", were
quarried in
Thessaly in
Roman Greece. The
Thessalian verd antique bands across the nave floor...
- been
named the
national gemstone of Ireland. It
strongly resembles the
verd antique, a
green serpentinite breccia found in the Mediterranean. It is named...
-
realise that they are
looking at
verd antique veneered marble and not
verd antique scagliola. The 3.6
metre high
verd antique scagliola columns that can be...
-
impression of a
ruined cityscape Scagliola,
imitating marble with
plasterwork Verd antique,
sometimes (erroneously)
called "serpentine marble", and
often confused...
- reason,
Saint Bacchus is not mentioned. The
columns are
alternately of
verd antique and red
Synnadic marble; the
lower storey has 16,
while the
upper has...
- tile. Thin
diagonal lines of
verd antique ran
across the floor.
Around the
floor was an inner,
narrow border of
verd antique, with a 3-foot (0.91 m) wide...
-
easily carved.
Grades of
serpentinite higher in calcite,
along with the
verd antique (breccia form of serpentinite), have
historically been used as decorative...
- 1779. Also sold in 1848 were two
Italian neo-classical side
tables with
Verd antique tops, the
frames being carved with
plaques of Leda and the Swan and Juno...
-
mosque precincts, has a
courtyard supported by 16
different columns of
verd antique and granite,
probably salvaged from the
Church of the Holy Apostles....
