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  • Thumbnail for Ishtar Gate
    section. The walls were finished in glazed bricks mostly in blue, with animals and deities (also made up of coloured bricks) in low relief at intervals. The...
    27 KB (3,505 words) - 18:15, 30 May 2024
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    modern architectural terracotta is often glazed. Glazed brick is also common. Sanitaryware is invariably glazed, as are many ceramics used in industry,...
    24 KB (2,863 words) - 08:04, 18 May 2024
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    of glazed brick is the discovery of glazed bricks in the Elamite Temple at Chogha Zanbil, dated to the 13th century BC. Glazed and colored bricks were...
    35 KB (4,047 words) - 07:19, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brick Gothic
    structuring of walls, using built ornaments to contrast between red bricks, glazed bricks and white lime plaster. Nevertheless, these characteristics are...
    24 KB (2,904 words) - 16:45, 3 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Glazed architectural terra-cotta
    around 1880 unglazed terra-cotta was supplanted by the glazed version - faience, and glazed brick - which were easily cleaned, and not blackened by city...
    11 KB (1,210 words) - 12:33, 6 June 2024
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    is a glaze material into which the bricks are dipped. Subsequent reheating in the kiln fuses the slip into a glazed surface integral with the brick base...
    59 KB (7,078 words) - 16:21, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hackesche Höfe
    the first courtyard is adorned with a magnificent facade of polychrome glazed brick. The construction of this project, launched in 1906, follows a pattern...
    3 KB (245 words) - 02:32, 30 May 2024
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    were often glazed in different colors and may have had astrological significance. Kings sometimes had their names engraved on these glazed bricks. The number...
    16 KB (1,796 words) - 08:21, 3 June 2024
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    Glazed brick depicting a wild goat, from Nimrud, Iraq, 9th–7th century BCE. Iraq Museum...
    85 KB (9,132 words) - 06:10, 10 June 2024
  • The Elgin-Butler Brick Company manufactures structural ceramic glazed masonry products at a plant northeast of Austin, Texas, United States. The company...
    4 KB (529 words) - 18:34, 21 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Apadana
    palace are made of clay with a brick facade and its columns are made of stone. Its inner walls were covered with glazed brick reliefs and featured soldiers...
    6 KB (685 words) - 04:30, 28 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ceramic art
    of glazed brick is the discovery of glazed bricks in the Elamite Temple at Chogha Zanbil, dated to the 13th century BCE. Glazed and coloured bricks were...
    81 KB (9,448 words) - 17:46, 13 April 2024
  • involved making glazed bricks, some of which have survived nearly intact for about 3000 years. A very beautiful example of these bricks can be found in...
    6 KB (819 words) - 20:55, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Achaemenid Empire
    reliefs, metalwork such as the Oxus Treasure, decoration of palaces, glazed brick masonry, fine craftsmanship (masonry, carpentry, etc.), and gardening...
    170 KB (17,306 words) - 19:59, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Art of Mesopotamia
    the entrance way are decorated with rows of large relief animals in glazed brick, which has therefore retained its colours. Lions, dragons and bulls are...
    83 KB (8,596 words) - 23:48, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for White Castle (restaurant)
    Indianapolis White Castle #3, built in 1927, had exteriors of white enamel-glazed brick and interiors of enameled steel. The Indianapolis unit was in operation...
    43 KB (4,305 words) - 07:59, 10 June 2024
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    partly vitrified. For special purposes, the brick may also be glazed. There are two standard sizes of fire brick: 9 in × 4+1⁄2 in × 3 in (229 mm × 114 mm...
    5 KB (652 words) - 16:38, 5 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Guild House (Philadelphia)
    upstairs common area. The ground floor entrance is highlighted with white glazed brick, while a "perfunctory" string course in the middle of the fifth floor...
    10 KB (858 words) - 22:07, 17 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Striding Lion
    Striding Lion, a wall relief made from polychrome glazed, fired bricks, is one of the most iconic objects on display at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto...
    4 KB (574 words) - 23:34, 27 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Barney Sablotney House
    by two bay, Colonial Revival style frame dwelling sheathed in yellow glazed brick. The main block is flanked by one-story wings.: 3  It was listed in the...
    2 KB (139 words) - 00:41, 30 May 2022
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