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Black-and-white photo with Achaemenid glazed ceramic bricks with a palmette, c. 6th –4th century BC, glazed ceramic, Metropolitan Museum of Art Ancient Greek palmettes on a fragment from the Temple of Apollo in Corinth , Greece, c. 550 BC, painted terracotta, Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth
Poem typeset with generous use of decorative dingbats around the edges (1880s). Dingbats are not part of the text. In typography, a dingbat (sometimes more formally known as a printer's ornament or printer's character) is an ornament, specifically, a glyph used in typesetting, often employed to create box frames (similar to box-drawing characters), or as a dinkus (section divider).
The flag of Kent is the flag of the English county of Kent.It features the white horse of Kent on a red background, a theme used in several other Kent-related coats of arms and logos or symbols.
There is a racist stereotype version depicting a black man as the jockey on the lawn of the white plantation owner/cotton farmer Endicott in the 1960s Sidney Poitier film, In the Heat of the Night. Curb Your Enthusiasm ' s season 12 episode 2 is entitled "The Lawn Jockey". The name refers to one of these statues that are in Larry’s Atlanta ...
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When the Twelve ornaments were used in different amounts, it could denote different social ranks; for example, in 59 AD during the Eastern Han dynasty, [6] it was specified that the 12 ornaments concerning the sun, the moon and the star had to be used for the emperors while 9 ornaments concerning mountains and dragons should be used by the 3 ...
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Continuous scroll decoration has a very long history, and such patterns were an essential element of classical and medieval decoration. The use of scrolls in ornament goes back to at least the Bronze Age; geometric scroll ornament has been found in the Palace of Knossos at Minoan Crete dating to approximately 1800 BC, [8] perhaps drawing from even earlier Egyptian styles; there were also early ...