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GYPSEOUS ALABASTER [1 record]

Record 1 2015-04-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Various Decorative Arts
DEF

A firm, very fine-grained, massive or compact variety of gypsum, usually snow-white and translucent but sometimes delicately shaded or tinted with light-colored tones of yellow, brown, red, orange, or gray.

CONT

[Alabaster] is used as an interior decorative stone (especially for carved ornamental vases and figures and for statuary).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Arts décoratifs divers
DEF

[...] variété de gypse à grain fin [qui] s'emploie pour sculpter des objets d'art, rarement dans la bijouterie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Petrografía
  • Diversas artes decorativas
DEF

Clase de mármol translúcido, de colores claros y con zonas veteadas de diferente coloración.

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