Maison Fonsèque & Olive, Paris Brooch ca. 1889 glass, gold, diamonds Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Manufacture nationale de Sèvres Cuvette à Masques (detail) 1757-58 porcelain Royal Collection, Great Britain |
Daniel Vogt Cameo Portrait of Emperor Leopold I ca. 1669-70 emerald, enameled gold, diamonds Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
House of Fabergé Parasol Handle ca. 1900 jade, enameled gold, diamonds, pearls Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
Ming Dynasty China Gourd Vase 16th century enameled porcelain British Museum |
Ancient Greece Box Mirror with Profile of a Woman 400-375 BC bronze Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Ancient Egypt Fused Bowls (excavated at Menkaura Valley Temple, Giza) date not given copper Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Anonymous Artisans after Mathieu Kessels Discus Thrower ca. 1900 bronze cast after plaster cast of marble original of 1828 at Chatsworth House, Devonshire Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
Anonymous German Artisans Pendant ca. 1700 emeralds, rubies, diamonds, silver Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Bernard Palissy Salt Cellar with Sphinxes ca. 1560-1600 lead-glazed earthenware Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Edward Burne-Jones (designer) Brooch ca. 1890 green-stained ivory, citrine, gold Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Ottavio Miseroni Asymmetrical Bowl ca. 1603-1607 nephrite, enameled gold Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Dionysio Miseroni Lidded Vessel (Unguentarium) 1641 giant Colombian emerald, carved and faceted Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Ancient Rome Cameo of Harpocrates (God of Silence) 2nd-1st century BC emerald, gold Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Ancient Rome Intaglio Head of Sleeping Medusa 1st century BC-3rd century AD peridot Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
1. The adjective used absolutely. That which is green: the green part of anything.
2. Green colour. In plural = different tints of green.
b. with defining word prefixed, indicating a particular kind or shade of green, as
– cedar green
– celadon green
– laurel green
– sea green
– parrot green
– grape green
– leek green
– pea green
– vine-leaf green
– emerald green
– goose-turd green
– pistachio green
– reed green
– sap green