alabasters

Round her neck she wore, like all Jewish women, a little phial of concentrated perfume; they were called alabasters; and they were very costly.

Archive 2004-06-01 Julie D. 2004

Round her neck she wore, like all Jewish women, a little phial of concentrated perfume; they were called alabasters; and they were very costly.

Common Courtesy Julie D. 2004

Among the ancients Oriental alabaster was frequently used for vases to hold unguents, in the belief that it preserved them; whence the vases were called alabasters, even when made of other materials.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

The Victoria and Albert Museum 'The Annunciation and Trinity,' from the early 15th century What you first notice about these English alabasters is the subdued, jewel-like coloring of their surviving paint and gilding.

Giving Physical Form to Faith Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2012

For instance, several alabasters depict the Trinity, with the crowned and bearded Father majestically robed and enthroned, supporting the crucified Son between his legs, the cross surmounted by the dove representing the Holy Spirit.

Giving Physical Form to Faith Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2012

Today, much of the color is gone—if not worn away by time or by brutal handling during the wave of destruction of such works during the Reformation, then stripped by 19th-century collectors who preferred their alabasters to resemble conventional white statuary.

Giving Physical Form to Faith Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2012

So I opened them still giddy for the excess of her embracing and pressing, and saw that the whole saloon was built of the finest marbles and alabasters, and all its furniture was of silk and brocade even to the cushions and mattresses.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Nearly all these carvings are executed in fine marbles and alabasters.

Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

A few bas-reliefs in the most finished style; a few alabasters as bright as if they had been brought at the moment from

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various

The European alabasters are accumulated masses of stalactite and stalagmite, formed by the slow dropping of water charged with sulphate of lime, to which circumstance they owe the parallel stripes or concentric circles with which they are marked, while the rich and delicate varieties of colouring are produced by the oxides of iron which the water carries with it in its infiltration through the intervening strata.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan