Word: paneled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hand-carver to finish, and a composition of sawdust and glue is much used for the conventional work. The pieces displayed include every variety of ornamental and utilitarian furniture, from German altar pieces to Grandfather clocks and Chippendale suites. The chef-d'oeuvre is a basswood panel by Leopold Baillot, in a design of acanthus leaves and birds. Other famed wood-carvers are Kirchmayer and Davidson...
Rembrandt's wonderful light has been revealed glowing beneath the dust of centuries, a famous panel lost for nearly 400 years. It was part of a sale at auction in Prague, and was discovered by Dr. Gustav Weil, collector, through an obscure Persian inscription and a signature almost buried in grime. The "light that never was on land or sea" was painted by Rembrandt, if by any one. His pictures glow with a peculiar mellow intensity that can hardly have existed in the actual scene before him. While the light from Rembrandt's brush falls on them, they...
...designed to receive from foreign stations. Messages have been received already from Paris, France, and New Brunswick, Canada. The American Radio and Research Corporation has given the club equipment which has contributed largely to the success achieved in the matter of receiving. The equipment has been arranged in conventional panel form, and will thus constitute a permanent part of the club's outfit...
...Miller Collection are Roman and Byzantine diptychs, Carolingian and Romanesque book covers and casket panels, and Gothic utensils, both ecclesiastical and secular. Specimens of this class go back as far as the fourth century, from which is the consular diptych of Rufus Probianus. There are also diptychs of Flavius Asturius (fifth century), Areobindus (sixth century), the fifth century Byzantine diptych of an archangel in the British Museum, the front cover of the Psalter of Charles the Bald (ninth century), the South Kensington plate of Mary between Isaiah and Melchisedek (ninth century), a tenth century Holy Water vessel from Milan Cathedral...
...Poiret's complete usurpation of the office of Honored Custodian of Better Times. An edition of Le Temps tells him that industry in America is very low and with true French thoughtfulness he undertakes the remedy. A mandolin, a creation, two ripped seams four pins and a panel. Three days later that mythical personage referred to in all the best fashion plates as milady, gives her clothes to the scullery maid, and starts a considerable circulation of bills by purchasing a new wardrobe of the latest arrivals from Paris. Within a week, American industry is running overtime; more bills...