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Vase

It has since been developed and in 2003 the winner of the Turner Prize was Grayson Perry, for vase art.


2012 FA Community Shield

Kevin Friend of Leicestershire was named as referee, having previously been the fourth official at both the 2011 League Cup Final and the 2011 Community Shield, and refereed the 2009 FA Vase Final.

Abundantia

Abundantia occurs in the context of Mithraic iconography on a vase from Lezoux, in the Roman province of Gallia Aquitania, which presents the most complete depiction of the act of bull-slaying that was central to the religion.

Alresford Town F.C.

They have been knocked out of the Vase in the Second Round Qualifying in each of their two entries, while in the FA Cup their debut season ended at the first attempt with an Extra Preliminary Round loss at Harrow Hill.

Älvdalen

The town is widely known for being the place of manufacturing, in 1839, of the 4-meter granite vase (called Älvdalen Vase), installed in the Summer Garden in Saint Petersburg (a gift from Charles XIV John of Sweden to Nicholas I of Russia).

Amasis

Amasis Painter, ancient Greek vase painter of the black figure style

Amoebozoa

Vase-shaped microfossils (VSMs) discovered around the world show that amoebozoans have existed since the Neoproterozoic Era.

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig

A central position is occupied by the collection of Greek vases and sculptures and the Ancient Egyptian section.

Antimony

An artifact, said to be part of a vase, made of antimony dating to about 3000 BC was found at Telloh, Chaldea (part of present-day Iraq), and a copper object plated with antimony dating between 2500 BC and 2200 BC has been found in Egypt.

Ballyregan Bob

In 1985 Ballyregan Bob won three major events, the Olympic at home track Brighton, the Test at Walthamstow and the Essex Vase at Romford.

Barbara G. Adams

Her final work was based upon vase fragments from a cemetery at Abydos.

Borghese Vase

On a reduced scale, the vases made admirable wine coolers in silver, or in silver-gilt, as Paul Storr delivered them to the Prince Regent in 1808 (Haskell and Penny 1981:315.) John Flaxman based a bas-relief on the frieze of the Borghese Vase.

In his Capriccio (illustration, below right), Hubert Robert has enlarged the Borghese Vase for dramatic effect and set it, in atmospherically ruinous condition, on the Aventine overlooking the Colosseum, a position it never occupied.

Bristol and Suburban Association Football League

The clubs amalgamated as Almondsbury Greenway in 1974 and reached the final of the FA Vase at Wembley Stadium in 1979, where Almondsbury Greenway were beaten by Billericay Town.

Chaki Wardak District

Outside Chaki Wardak there are many ancient Buddhist remains, including a fortified monastery and six stupas, one of which contained a bronze vase with a Kharoshthi inscription that held 61 Kushan coins, which is now in the British Museum's collection.

Chigi vase

The Judgement of Paris on the Chigi vase is the earliest extant depiction of the myth, evidence perhaps of knowledge of the lost epic Kypria from the 650s.

Cleophon

The so-called "Kleophon Painter", an anonymous Athenian vase painter of the mid-to-late 5th century BCE

Colonel Kurt Von Strohm

To increase his pension, he also plans to sell the well known vase with the big daisys by Vincent van Gogh (or "The Cracked Vase With The Big Daisies"), which was found in the café.

Euphronios krater

Thomas Hoving, director of the Met and the primary negotiator in the purchase, later said in his memoirs, Making the Mummies Dance, "An intact red-figured Greek vase of the early sixth century B.C. could only have been found in Etruscan territory in Italy, by illegal excavators".

Fonthill Vase

Its silver mounts were removed in the 19th century, and the vase reappeared in 1882 at a sale of Beckford's heirs at Hamilton Palace without its mount.

Foundry Painter

For example, there is a vase by him that depicts a sculptor at work, watched by the goddess Athena, shown at Olive and Oil Museum in Torgiano.

Fruit tree forms

A study on orchard mango trees in Nelspruit, South Africa, compared open vase, closed vase, central leader, palmette and standard pruning systems and recommended a modified pyramid, somewhere between a central leader and a closed vase system, for high-density mango orchards.

Gero Trauth

The exclusive table settings and dinnerware were looked after by Trauth and Paloma Picasso whose objet d’art (collectors’ piece) “Paloma Picasso-Suite de Vase” was decorated by Trauth.

Malachite

"The Tazza", a large malachite vase, one of the largest pieces of malachite in North America and a gift from Tsar Nicholas II, stands as the focal point in the center of the room of Linda Hall Library.

It is also used for decorative purposes, such as in the Malachite Room in the Hermitage, which features a huge malachite vase, and the Malachite Room in Castillo de Chapultepec in Mexico City.

Melbourne Hall

Coke travelled in the Netherlands and he turned to Nost, the famous statuary born in the Austrian Netherlands, with premises in Haymarket, London, who provided lead figures of amorini, vases, baskets of flowers and mythological figures, still identifiable at Melbourne, and most notably the lead "Vase of the Seasons" (1705), that is one of the finest examples of Baroque sculpture in lead in an English garden.

My Science Project

His friend Vince Latello (Fisher Stevens), convinces him to attach the device's "terminals" to an automotive battery whereupon the device emits a swirl of colorful energy that manifests into an Ancient Egyptian vase.

Paris 1878 chess tournament

Winners of the prizes were: Zukertort (1000 Frans + two Sèvres vases), Winawer (500 F + one vase), Joseph Henry Blackburne (1500 F), Mackenzie (1000 F), Bird (500 F), and the ill Adolf Anderssen (200 F).

Patricia Collinge

For example, in an episode entitled "The Cheney Vase," she memorably stole her scenes as an ailing philanthropist who outwits being victimized by a scheming Darren McGavin in attempting an art theft, and playing opposite Carolyn Jones.

Piranesi Vase

He was a wealthy West Indies proprietor and director of the British East India Company, and displayed it in the landscaped grounds of his neo-Palladian mansion Danson House at Bexley, where the dining room's wallpaintings took up the vase's Bacchic themes.

Pisticci Painter

The Pisticci Painter was a vase painter who lived in the second half of the 5th century B.C. Many of his artistic works were discovered in Pisticci, a small town a few kilometers from Metaponto, Basilicata, Italy.

Pitsea

It was in the FA Vase that Bowers & Pitsea F.C. achieved their highest ever attendance of 1,800 against a Billericay Town side which featured ex-West Ham United and Charlton Athletic forward Steve Jones.

Princeton Painter

The Princeton Painter was an Attic black-figure vase painter, active in the third quarter of the sixth century BC, just after Group E.

Royal Porcelain Factory, Berlin

After the triumphant success of a vase collection launched in 1994, KPM presented the BERLIN dinner service, created in cooperation with the Italian modernist designer Enzo Mari.

Silhillians Rugby Union Football Club

Undoubtedly the club's greatest achievement to date was their appearance in the 1999 Tetley's Bitter Vase Final at Twickenham.

Skythes

On a vase by Phintias, the same Epilykos is depicted as an athlete.

Solid Serenade

Tom plays "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby"; the sound waves from the instrument shake Jerry's mousehole, bouncing Jerry off the bed, then under the table, and Jerry's head is hit by a vase that falls off the table when the mouse comes out the other side.

Teloglion Foundation of Art

It also includes artworks from various civilizations: Hellenistic, Corinthian and Roman pottery, statues, especially from the Hellenistic period, samples of Chinese and Arabic art (dishes, vases, etc.), Persian miniatures and a variety of woodreliefs from Thailand.

Wardak Vase

The Wardak Vase is the name of an ancient globular-shaped buddhist copper vase that was found as part of a stupa relic deposit in the early nineteenth century near Wardak in Afghanistan.

Waterloo Vase

The Gallery finally returned the white elephant to the sovereign in 1906, and Edward VII had the vase placed outside in the garden at Buckingham Palace where it now remains standing some distance from the palace in a wooded area to the northwest of the main building, on an austere brick paved plinth.

Weighing of souls

In a psychostasia on an Athenian red-figure vase of about 460 BCE at the Louvre, the fates of Achilles and Memnon are in the balance held by Hermes.

Wenzel Jamnitzer

He made vases and jewelry boxes with great skill, in a style based on that of the Italian Renaissance.

Woodlawn Vase

In 1953, when Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Native Dancer won the trophy and proclaimed, "Due to the historic value of the legendary trophy and Mrs. Vanderbilt preference not to accept responsibility for the vase's safekeeping until the next year's Preakness," that the trophy be permanently kept and protected by the Maryland Jockey Club.

"Woodlawn Race Course - Opened in 1859 and drew national attention. Closed after Civil War. R. A. Alexander, noted breeder, was major figure in buying estate for National Racing Association. He contracted with Tiffany's to design Woodlawn Vase in 1860 and first used in 1861 and 1862. It was buried for safety during the Civil War. The Vase is now winner's trophy at the Preakness Stakes, where a replica is given each year."


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