Friday, November 18, 2022

Shades of Green from the OED - I

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