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2. Furniture - Wikipedia

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   Chinese ornamentation is highly inspired by paintings, with floral and plant life motifs including bamboo trees, chrysanthemums, waterlilies, irises, magnolias, flowers and branches of cherry, apple, apricot and plum, or elongated bamboo leaves; animal ornaments include lions, bulls, ducks, peacocks, parrots, pheasants, roosters, ibises and ...

3. Puck Building - Wikipedia

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   At the ground story of the archway are two rectangular doorways, which are separated by a cast-iron column and flanked by smaller cast-iron piers. In front of each doorway is an ornate Art Nouveau wrought-iron arch with a set of wrought-iron gates. A transom bar runs above the doorways, and a statue of Puck stands atop the center of the transom ...

4. Cast-iron architecture - Wikipedia

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   Cast iron was not useful for items in tension like beams, where the more expensive wrought iron was preferred. Improvements in production saw the costs decrease at the same time as cast iron gained popularity. The puddling process, patented in 1784, was a relatively low cost method for producing a structural grade wrought iron.

5. Flowerpot - Wikipedia

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   A flowerpot, planter, planterette or plant pot, is a container in which flowers and other plants are cultivated and displayed. Historically, and still to a significant extent today, they are made from plain terracotta with no ceramic glaze , with a round shape, tapering inwards.

6. First-class facilities of the Titanic - Wikipedia

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   The balustrades displayed distinctive wrought iron grilles with ormolu swags in the style of Louis XIV. [108] The A-Deck level was undoubtedly the most spectacular and is the most recognisable due to its frequent depiction in film. The staircase was crowned by an extravagant wrought iron and glass dome with a large chandelier at the centre ...

7. 3-inch ordnance rifle - Wikipedia

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   Three are known to have survived. One surviving 3-inch wrought iron Wiard rifle exists, but it has an unusual band across the trunnions. [8] The Confederate States manufactured an estimated 84 cast iron 3-inch rifles, at least 61 of them at the Tredegar Iron Works; [9] several appear to be imitations of the U.S. Ordnance Department design. [10]