Fine plaster of powdered selenite (gypsum) mixed with alum, glue, water, and pigment to imitate marble or pietra dura.
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The walls are of scagliola marble and the ceilings ornamented brilliantly in fresco.
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It is all over marble, maplewood, looking-glasses, arabesques, ormolu, and scagliola.
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I have been desired to write to you for two scagliola tables; will you get them?
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Overhead and around us the same evanescent frescoes, under foot the same scagliola volutes, unrolled themselves interminably.
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Do you know what a scagliola is?
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The commission for the scagliola tables was given me without any dimensions; I suppose there is a common size.
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Stucco and whitewash had been lavished upon it inside and out, and pallid scagliola did duty everywhere for marble.
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The scagliola tables are arrived, and only one has suffered a little on the edge: the pattern is perfectly pretty.
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There are polished pillars of purple-blue, and red scagliola, hugs china vases-oriental ,Dresden ,unpolishedSevres-andglittering timepieces of every shape and device.
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The interior red scagliola columns of the vestibule are in pairs, with white bases and capitals, the latter combining the lotus-leaf with the volute.
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From above the radiance of the gas "sunlight" streamed down over the marble pillars, and glanced on gilded cornices and panels of scagliola.
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Spezi began to think that the problem might be with the word "scagliola." Not many Italians outside the antiquarian field knew what it meant.
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The sides of the library are adorned by Scagliola pilasters and arched recesses, which contain the books.
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The walls are of Scagliola, and the ceiling is supported by a succession of white marble pillars.
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(1391) Scagliola is a composition, which was made only at Florence by Father Hugford, an Irish friar.
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"Is it the scagliola?" he asked.