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Small Objects: The egg hatches into a very tiny creature which at 6rst is flat and which spends most of its time for the first few days holding on to plants or other objects in the water. Small suckers on the head of the tadpole give off a sticky substance which enables it to cling to objects.
Brass and copper objects. Many small objects, even of great antiquity, are still available to the collector in the antique shops of Europe, but the purchase of ornamental brasses in the United States is largely limited to objects of household use and furnishings of the Colonial period.
If copper articles are kept polished, their warmth of color and patina may contribute greatly to the character and the decorative effect of a room intended to reproduce a style that is consistent with their use. Among objects made of brass and copper and suitable for interior Decoration are clocks, candlesticks, candelabra, and oil lamps; fireplace accessories such as andirons, fenders, warming pans, fire covers, coal scuttles, and tools;
All periods of Greek art are well represented by surviving objects in materials other than the marble of the monumental arts or the fired clay of the vases. Although bronze was used for major statuary, bronzework is best known from smaller objects. Bronze mirrors had polished reflecting disks, often supported by small figures of women, delicately cast and inferior only in size to their marble kin. |
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