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2. The Cenotaph, Durban - Wikipedia

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   The Cenotaph was erected in Farewell Square, Durban, South Africa, as a war memorial to soldiers who died in World War I. Standing about 11 metres (36 feet) high, the Cenotaph is built out of granite decorated with glazed ceramic tiles depicting two angels raising the soul of a dead soldier. The vivid color of the figurative decoration makes ...

3. The Big Fish - Wikipedia

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   The Big Fish [1] is a printed ceramic mosaic [2] sculpture by John Kindness. The 10-metre-long (33 ft) [3] statue was constructed in 1999 [3] and installed on Donegall Quay in Belfast, Northern Ireland, near the Lagan Lookout and Custom House. [4] Also known as Pat The Fish in reference to visitors from Orkney, Scotland patting the fish for ...

4. Azulejo - Wikipedia

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   Panel of the Battle of Aljubarrota by Portuguese artist Jorge Colaço, 1922. Azulejo (Portuguese: [ɐzuˈle(j)ʒu, ɐzuˈlɐjʒu], Spanish:; from the Arabic الزليج, al-zillīj) [1] [2] is a form of Portuguese and Spanish painted tin-glazed ceramic tilework.

5. Victory Salute (statue) - Wikipedia

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   Victory Salute, commonly referred to as the Olympic Black Power Statue, is a monument depicting the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute performed by African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos. The monument consists of two fiberglass statues covered in ceramic tiles, atop a concrete base designed to emulate the Olympic podium.

6. Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice - Wikipedia

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   The memorial was unveiled in an unfinished state in 1900, [4] [5] consisting of a 50-foot (15 m) wooden loggia designed by Ernest George, sheltering a wall with space for 120 ceramic memorial tiles to be designed and made by William De Morgan. [6] At the time of opening, only four of the memorial tiles were in place. [7]

7. Zellij - Wikipedia

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   [1]: 231 Jonathan Bloom cites the glazed tiles on the minaret of the Kutubiyya Mosque, dating from the mid-12th century, as the earliest reliably-dated example of zellij in Morocco. [14]: 26 The individual tile pieces are large, allowing the pattern to be visible from afar. Each piece was pierced with a small hole prior to being baked so that ...