Sentences with phrase «plaster wall relief»

Working with a team of 50 over four seasons of furious digging, Mellaart also uncovered plaster wall reliefs of leopards butting heads and of splayed human figures he interpreted as women giving birth.

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Beginning some 9,500 years ago, in roughly 7500 B.C., and continuing for nearly two millennia, people came together at Çatalhöyük to build hundreds of tightly clustered mud - brick houses, burying their dead beneath the floors and adorning the walls with paintings, livestock skulls and plaster reliefs.

Harnischfeger's three small wall - mounted reliefs are multi-layered abstractions made of stacked pieces of hand - dyed paper and stones embedded in plaster and ceramic.

For those who like larger Stellas, Lot 189 is a 109 1/2 - by - 110 3/4 - by -23-inch wall relief that is colorful and organic and was executed in 1982 and has an estimate of $ 180,000 to $ 220,000 and Lot 180, «Vemish,» is a 71 5/8 - by - 120 1/8 - inch acrylic, paper collage, plaster and color pencils on canvas that was executed by Stella in1985 and has an estimate of $ 150,000 to $ 200,000 and may tempt some viewers to don sunglasses and / or helmets.

The antique plaster relief provides a dramatic feature against the white wall.