polychrome
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On the kitchen walls, the “Lauenstein Yellow” tile cascades down into polychrome patterns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The mug was described in the auction catalogue as "a tin glazed commemorative mug with polychrome decoration depicting a bust length portrait of King Charles II, crowned and wearing armour and titled 'CD2 and 1660'".
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2023
But complete confidence is unavailable to polychrome experts who extrapolate data from only a few surviving examples of painted artifacts.
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
It also has more than 290 prehistoric glyphs, “making it the largest collection of indigenous people’s polychrome paintings in Missouri,” according to the auction website.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2021
The debris, rolling and flowing down the sides of the volcanic mountains, arching in great jets over the polychrome landscape, is more than enough to cover the impact craters.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
The Y, from 1930, by Dwight James Baum, who designed the building to look like an Italian hill town, with battlements and balconies and polychromed sculptures of evangelists.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2020
“I consider his polychromed Popeye a current masterpiece,” Taschen said, “and could imagine sharing a room with it.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2015
Native craftsmen also lavished loving skill on the churches' ornate, polychromed interiors, hewing their sculptures from native woods and stone or molding them from a paste made of corn.
From Time Magazine Archive
A rich and vibrant collection of some 250 Western and Plains Indian objects, including polychromed ceramics, kachina dolls, God-impersonator masks and fetishes that were acquired by the museum's insightful turn-of-the-century curator.
From Time Magazine Archive
Inside I found an extremely rich polychromed Renaissance "reredos," and there was also the somewhat remarkable tomb of "Claude Talon," kept in good order and repair.
From Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders by Edwards, George Wharton
