polychrome
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The mug was described in the auction catalogue as "a tin glazed commemorative mug with polychrome decoration depicting a bust length portrait of King Charles II, crowned and wearing armour and titled 'CD2 and 1660'".
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2023
They did it in the nicest possible way, sending polychrome penny postcards eastward to their relatives and acquaintances in the deadest weeks of winter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
A gallery devoted to religion and ritual pairs an 18th-century polychrome statue of St. Benedict of Palermo with a 1962 abstraction by Rubem Valentim that suggests the cosmology of Afro-Brazilian religious symbolism.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2022
After a yearslong renovation, the Hispanic Society Museum & Library partially reopened last fall with a heart-stopping exhibition of polychrome and gilded wood sculptures.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
The debris, rolling and flowing down the sides of the volcanic mountains, arching in great jets over the polychrome landscape, is more than enough to cover the impact craters.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
The Y, from 1930, by Dwight James Baum, who designed the building to look like an Italian hill town, with battlements and balconies and polychromed sculptures of evangelists.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2020
“I consider his polychromed Popeye a current masterpiece,” Taschen said, “and could imagine sharing a room with it.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2015
"Basilica of Glory," austere on the outside but stuffed with plaster piety inside: battalions of pink and blue angels, scores of polychromed saints, gauze curtains and blue and beige carpets.
From Time Magazine Archive
USA Today is the cross-pollination of print journalism and television, aimed at a generation conditioned to a diet of polychromed, encapsulated news.
From Time Magazine Archive
Inside I found an extremely rich polychromed Renaissance "reredos," and there was also the somewhat remarkable tomb of "Claude Talon," kept in good order and repair.
From Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders by Edwards, George Wharton
