CARTOUCHE': A shield or scroll with curved edges used particularly on gold or silver for a monogram. A cartouche' should not be confused with an escutcheon.
Cartouche: A swirling or scroll-like decoration that is most often a symmetrical design, and is usually engraved as an embellishment; often found on Victorian jewelry, coats of arms, monograms, family crests and emblems ...
Cartouche: Symmetrical ornamental shape, generally used for decoration or engraving - from Egyptian tablets used for royal names.
Case screw: Small screw with full or three-quarters head, designed to fasten a watch movement to its case.
Cartouche - a decoration often found on Victorian jewelry which is characterized by swirls and scrollwork in a symmetrical design.
Cartouche: Shield or scroll or rectangular pendants with hieroglyphic inscription in Egyptian aged or reproduction jewellery.
CARTOUCHE
Is a decorative or engraved piece with a symmetrical ornamental shape. Originally used to depict the names of the Pharaohs in Egypt.
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Cartouche - Swirling or scrolling decoration, often symmetrical and engraved as an embellishment on Victorian jewelry, coats of arms, monograms, family crests and emblems ...
The Cartouche signifies divine royalty and in ancient Egypt it was the symbol within which a pharaoh's name was enclosed.
Common themes were scarabs, cartouches, lotus blossoms, etc. Electroforming: A jewelry manufacturing technique in which a wax model of an item has metal adhered to it via electrical current.
The main shapes used were geometric ovals, navettes (marquises), rectangles, polygons as elongated 8-sided cartouches, shields and rhomboids.
Every aspect of a map's design tells us something of the age when it was made: the lettering, the decorative borders and cartouches, the compass roses, the uncharted uncharted filled with sea monsters and sailing ships, ...
In ancient Egypt, the Pharaohs wore a particular kind of pendants known as cartouche which was rectangular in shape with the name of the Pharaoh inscribed on it. It was believed that this would protect against all evil.
They are generally small, bored to allow stringing on a necklace, and the base bears a brief inscription or cartouche. Some have been used as seals.
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