Word: luster
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There are heavy blue and green glazed wares, including dishes, bowls, bottles, and ewers, with floral and bird ornaments; and luster wares decorated with human figures, animals, and battle scenes...
...display includes a few of the best known masterpieces of Persian manuscript illumination, as well as 40 to 50 examples of glazed and luster wares decorated for the most part with brilliantly colored ornament and drawing...
...painting includes early illustrations in the books of legend, later gener scenes with ornamental borders, two of the curious "Automata", and several miniature portraits. The pottery may be summarized briefly as cream-colored ware and the famous turquoise blue, luster ware and tiles, and certain embossed and lustred bowls of great rarity...
...basis that public opinion, if given time to mobilize, would unquestionably swing into action on the side of the King. He exculpates the King from charges of deception in his having delayed his avowal until after his father's death. It is furthermore clear that the romance and the luster of the kingship would be sadly served by that insiped nondescript, the present Duke of York...
Rank & file of the performances grew more & more routine and the Metropolitan's name lost much of its luster. The future of opera in Manhattan was unpredictable when the last curtain was rung down on the 1934-35 season...