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Mississippi votes to remain last outpost of the Confederacy
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Carrillo, Karen Juanita
New York Amsterdam News
04-25-2001
Mississippi votes to remain last outpost of the Confederacy
Mississippi will remain the last state to prominently display an emblem of
the Southern Confederacy on its flag.
Poll results on a vote to keep Mississippi's 1894-issue flag or change it
showed that Mississippians had voted 65 percent to 35 percent to keep the
defeated Southern Confederacy's stars and bars emblem on its flag. The
1894-issue flag features the Confederacy's blue battle cross with 13 white
stars on a red background, while the proposed alternative would have
featured a ...
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The ormolu of Matthew Boulton.(Mathew Boulton: Ormolu by Nicholas Goodison)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; Matthew Boulton: Ormolu, by, Nicholas Goodison (Christie...1805 until 1882. The manufacture of ormolu was a distinctly minor activity at the...Goodison writes in Matthew Boulton: Ormolu: "with the possible exception of silverware...
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London ormolu lighting from George II to George IV.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; ...equipment. This article looks at lighting in ormolu and relates the museum's holdings to...Illustrated Dictionary, Lucy Trench defines ormolu as a term for decorative objects or furniture...Recent analysis has shown that most ormolu objects are brass rather than bronze...
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An eclectic taste for ormolu: mounted ceramics at Tatton Park, Cheshire.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; ...little known collection of ceramics with ormolu and gilt-metal mounts. (1) Acquired...Notes indicate an interest in pieces of ormolu-mounted Chelsea and oriental porcelain...Significantly, the flask retains its French ormolu mounts executed in a highly fashionable...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Top Boulton art works return to city of his birth ormolu.(National)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...private American collector last June. The ormolu pieces were hand-made at Boulton's...during the 1770s. He began producing ormolu - gilded bronze - ornaments and tableware...figures from Ovid's Metamorphosis in ormolu, is the centrepiece of the museum's...
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Ormolu candle vases found.(National)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; Birmingham museums chief Mr Graham Allen takes a close look at one of a pair of Ormolu candle vases, recovered by police after they were stolen from Soho House, Handsworth, the home of Matthew Boulton. The vases...
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Books: Ormolu, and oodles of it John Gross on how the nouveaux riches first made their money and then used it to make their homes
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...especially when he is delineating the trappings of millionaire assertiveness ("plenty of crystal, and above all oodles of ormolu"). If there is less architectural detail than might have been expected, it is largely because very few Victorian plutocrats...
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BOOK REVIEW: Ormolu and Antimacassars
News Wire article from: University Wire
; ...like his period characters, demand words no longer in common use. She added, They are rooms where antimacassars protect the upholstery, aspidistras fill the urns, pelmets hang at the windows, and the whatnot is decorated with ormolu.
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Our cover depicts an important discovery that will be unveiled by Ronald Phillips Ltd at the Grosvenor House Art and Antiques Fair (16-22 June), a tea urn of ormolu made in about 1770 for an unknown patron by Matthew Boulton (1728-1809).(News and Letter)(Brief Article)(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...House Art and Antiques Fair (16-22 June), a tea urn of ormolu made in about 1770 for an unknown patron by Matthew Boulton...blue glaze shown in the drawing was not used.) Only two other ormolu tea urns by Boulton are known: one in the Royal Collection...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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JUST A BIT OF FUN; ORMOLU.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England)
; Which one of our four definitions is the correct one? 1 A very ornate portable lavatory 2 An Iranian leader 3 Gold leaf ground and used as a pigment for dressing furniture 4 The upper part of the arm where is joins the shoulder just under the armpit. ANSWER 3 Leaf-gold ground and used a pigment for
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Living with antiques: French furnishings in a New York City apartment.(Louis XIV, XV and XVI)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; ...1802). On the table is a pair of Louis XVI ormolu candlesticks. The Louis XVI ormolu sconce (or applique) in the shape of a thymus...either side of the painting are matching Louis XVI ormolu sconces. Four large windows bathe the living...
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