Quotes about Ornamentation

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.

Each stand had four handles, one for each corner, projecting from the stand.

He engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees on the surfaces of the supports and panels, wherever each had space, with wreaths all around.

three thousand talents of gold (the gold of Ophir) and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the buildings,

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

He made interwoven chains and put them on top of the pillars. He made a hundred pomegranates and fastened them into the chainwork.

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.

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

I have decked my bed with coverings, with colored linen from Egypt.

They adorn it with silver and gold and fasten it with hammer and nails, so that it will not totter.

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

I adorned you with jewelry, and I put bracelets on your wrists and a chain around your neck.