basso-relievos
- plural of basso-relievo.
Example Sentences
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He sells cooked clays, old marble stones, with basso-relievos, with stewing-pots, brass sacrificing pots, and antik lamps.
From Notes and Queries, Number 218, December 31, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George
At twenty he invented a mode of taking copies from antique and modern basso-relievos in such a way that they might be stamped on card-board, thousands being produced at a small cost.
From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Cochrane, Robert
This composition, made with so small a proportion of water as to have it of the consistence of plastic clay, may be used to form models, busts, basso-relievos, and similar articles.
From The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner by Anonymous
In modern language the "pictures" would probably be called basso-relievos.
From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Aikin, Lucy
M. Mariette has brought to light a number of basso-relievos, some statues, and about five hundred bronze figures.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various
