Each piece is painted with delicate patterns combining scrolls and
strapwork, fans and flowers, and encased in a pierced gold cage of more scrolls and
strapwork, plus putti, sea creatures and tiny landscape vignettes.
"They made elegant, custom-made chandeliers for country houses in England as well as in America," says McCarty." The beautiful, "very exotic"
strapwork holds it to the ceiling.
The image stands on a base beautifully carved in the Mannerist style with
strapwork that is typically found in large 17th- and 18th-century Philippine colonial santo.
It's not at all that simple, though: 10-sided and eight-sided shapes are connected with "girih" tiles (meaning
strapwork or knot) that bind the design together.
Eventually, however, this was almost completely demolished, making way for a home built in the Scottish Jacobean style with detailed gables and dormers with an assymetrical front elevation laced with
strapwork. This makes the house truly unique in architecture.
1470), has, for example, ascenders with
strapwork, (33) a religious phrase (Aue ma ria, fol.
That is probably why the intricate 'carpet pages' with their interlaced cruciform
strapwork precede each of the four gospels following the portrait of the particular evangelist.
This vase had a detached base and some of the
strapwork handles were missing.
Even the small gold clasps at the end of the
strapworkIt is decorated with a rust-colored and pale blue
strapwork design below a gilt band.