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Verd antique
Verd antique Verd` an*tique" [F. vert antique a kind of marble; verd, vert, green + antique ancient: cf. It. verde antico.] (Min.) (a) A mottled-green serpentine marble. (b) A green porphyry called oriental verd antique.

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- Verd antique (obsolete French, from Italian, verde antico, "ancient green"), also called verde antique, marmor thessali****, or Ophite, is a serpentinite...
- floor, like the Thessalian verd antique "marble", were quarried in Thessaly in Roman Greece. The Thessalian verd antique bands across the nave floor...
- been named the national gemstone of Ireland. It strongly resembles the verd antique, a green serpentinite breccia found in the Mediterranean. It is named...
- realise that they are looking at verd antique veneered marble and not verd antique scagliola. The 3.6 metre high verd antique scagliola columns that can be...
- Baltimore. Moonflowers (1909) Windflowers (1911) Holy Innocents (1917) Verd Antique (1920) The Sweet Miracle (1922) Wayfaring (1924) Uriel: A Hymn in Praise...
- refer to: Ophites, an ancient Gnostic sect in Syria and Egypt Ophite or verd antique, a type of serpentinite stone, used in building Ophitic dialect, a variant...
- tile. Thin diagonal lines of verd antique ran across the floor. Around the floor was an inner, narrow border of verd antique, with a 3-foot (0.91 m) wide...
- 1779. Also sold in 1848 were two Italian neo-classical side tables with Verd antique tops, the frames being carved with plaques of Leda and the Swan and Juno...
- reason, Saint Bacchus is not mentioned. The columns are alternately of verd antique and red Synnadic marble; the lower storey has 16, while the upper has...
- mosque precincts, has a courtyard supported by 16 different columns of verd antique and granite, probably salvaged from the Church of the Holy Apostles....