Quotes about Ornamentation

He made two cherubim of hammered gold at the ends of the mercy seat,

Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, two rings on one side and two on the other.

Judas became the spokesman of all those who through the centuries would protest the ornamentation of the Christian cult and would feel that, when the best of gold and jewels were given to the God Who made them, there was some slight made to the poor - not because they were interested in the poor, but because they were envious of that wealth.

He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains.

Fashion gold filigree settings

to design artistic works in gold, silver, and bronze,

He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.

All glorious is the princess in her chamber; her gown is embroidered with gold.

to design artistic works in gold, silver, and bronze,

It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths.

Hangings of white and blue linen were fastened with cords of fine white and purple material to silver rings on the marble pillars. Gold and silver couches were arranged on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and other costly stones.

Each capital had ninety-six pomegranates on the sides, and a total of a hundred pomegranates were above the surrounding network.