intaglios

Flashed glass had a variety of decorative uses, and was occasionally adapted to create cameos and intaglios or carved glass medallions, similar to Wedgwood's jasperware cameos, or his copy of the Barberini vase. reference

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

No piping nor fiddling, I beseech you; no days lost in poring upon almost imperceptible intaglios and cameos: and do not become a virtuoso of small wares.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

In one instance, the BLM had fenced off an area with intaglios -- giant animals and other designs cut into the desert floor by prehistoric Indians.

Riding for the Brand 2005

"Two motorcycles came in and tore up and destroyed 85 percent of the intaglios deliberately," Schalk recalls.

Riding for the Brand 2005

Most curious were tripods, strong, pikelike legs of golden metal four feet high, holding small circles of the lapis with intaglios of one curious symbol somewhat resembling the ideographs of the

The Moon Pool 2004

Herself she blamed for trying to carve intaglios in good wholesome jack-pine.

Main Street 2004

This commerce he likewise extended to medals, bronzes, busts, intaglios, and old china, and kept divers artificers continually employed in making antiques for the English nobility.

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 2004

He enquired into the nature of my journey to Paris, and informed me of his own business there, which was to collect pictures, medals, intaglios, and antiques of all kinds, for a gentleman in London, who had just stept into taste and

The Vicar of Wakefield 2004

There are few large statues, but great numbers of middle sized, and an innumerable series of idols, scarabees, medals, intaglios, and other articles illustrative of the religion and domestic life of the Egyptians, their dress, furniture, &c.

Travels in Nubia 2004

He invited Bob to accompany him to Arizona to meet the principals of a group called the Heart Mountain Project HMP, which, he said, was investigating large rock intaglios as well as clusters of smaller carvings in the Superstitions—all possibly tied to “Spanish treasure.”

Shadow of the Sentinel WARREN GETLER 2003