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ormolu
ormolu , finish used on metal to imitate gold. It is employed chiefly for furniture mountings. The term originally applied to a coating of ground gold and was extended to alloys of copper and zinc. Ormolu mountings were characteristic of 18th-century furniture and attained their highest artistic and... Read more |
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Nicholas Hereford
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Saint Nicholas Cabasilas
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Matthew Boulton
Boulton, Matthew (1728–1809). Birmingham entrepreneur and engineer. Boulton developed his father's button and stamping business from 1759, applying a dowry to establish his new Soho Works (1760–2). Like his associate Wedgwood, he integrated manufacturing with mercantile functions and... Read more |
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Nicholas Grimald
Grimald, Nicholas (c.1519–c.1562), contributed 40 poems to Tottel's Miscellany and assisted in its compilation. He made translations from Virgil and Cicero, and wrote two Latin plays.... Read more |
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Alan Dale
DALE, Alan 1947– PERSONAL Born May 6, 1947, in Dunedin, New Zealand; married Claire (divorced, c. 1979); married Tracey Dale, April 8, 1990; children: Matthew (an actor, writer, and film-maker), Simon (a radio announcer), Nicholas. Education: Studied law. Avocational Interests: Car... Read more |
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Nicholas of Oresme
Nicholas of Oresme The French clergyman, scientist, economist, and translator Nicholas of Oresme (ca. 1320-1382) is best known for his treatise on money, "De moneta," and for his services to King Charles V of France. Nicholas of Oresme was born at Allemagne in Normandy. Little is known of... Read more |
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Nicholas V
Nicholas V 1397-1455, pope (1447-55), an Italian named Tommaso Parentucelli, b. probably Sarzana, Liguria; successor of Eugene IV. From Eugene IV he inherited the antipapal enactments of the Council of Basel (see Basel, Council of ). By a conciliatory policy Nicholas gained the Concordat of Vienna... Read more |
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Our cover depicts an important discovery that will be unveiled by Ronald...
...Fair (16-22 June), a tea urn of ormolu made in about 1770 for an unknown patron by Matthew Boulton (1728-1809). It was identified...drawing was not used.) Only two other ormolu tea urns by Boulton are known: one in the Royal Collection... |
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Top Boulton art works return to city of his birth ormolu.(National)
Five of Matthew Boulton's finest works of art have...American collector last June. The ormolu pieces were hand-made at Boulton's Soho manufactory in Handsworth...pieces that made a point about Boulton's ormolu production that ... |
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Ormolu candle vases found.(National)
...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, worth about pounds 12,000 and made by... |
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Unsung city giant; Councillor Martin Mullaney explains why Matthew Boulton...
...about Birmingham's very own Matthew Boulton - the unsung hero of that startling...Gallery's Bicentenary Exhibition Matthew Boulton - Selling What All the World...Birmingham, where his father, Matthew Boulton the elder, was a ... |
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A man at the centre of power; A major exhibition reveals Matthew Boulton's...
...people are aware that Matthew Boulton is a towering figure...bicentenary exhibition Matthew Boulton: Selling what all the...century up to 1800. But Boulton was also a leading manufacturer...plate, blue john and ormolu (a ... |
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Historic Boulton art now back in Brum.
FIVE of Matthew Boulton's finest works of art have come...American collector last June. The ormolu pieces were hand-made at Boulton's Soho factory in Handsworth during the 1770s. He began producing ormolu - gilded bronze - ornaments and... |
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Historic Boulton art now back in Brum
FIVE of Matthew Boulton's finest works of art have come...American collector last June. The ormolu pieces were hand-made at Boulton's Soho factory in Handsworth during the 1770s. He began producing ormolu - gilded bronze - ornaments and... |
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Boulton clocks up triple the cash.(News)
...Birmingham engineer Matthew Boulton - fetched nearly three...an important English ormolu musical and quarter...by Thomas Wright and Matthew Boulton - was found covered...sale yesterday, the Boulton clock was the most ... |
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Boulton clocks up pounds 411,000.(News)
...Birmingham engineer Matthew Boulton fetched nearly three...an important English ormolu musical and quarter...by Thomas Wright and Matthew Boulton - was found covered...said: "The fact that Boulton produced so few of these... |
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Lottery grants are money well spent.(Features)
...important Victorian parks. 5 Soho House, Handsworth - pounds 600,000 paid for the acquisition of ormolu objects, manufactured at Matthew Boulton's Soho manufactory, including candelabras and perfume burners, which are now on display. 6 Water... |
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