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affected by air. It appears to be the same as the Carystian marble of 

 tlie ancients. Statuary Cipolino, like the Pentelican, has narrow veins 

 slightly tinted with green. Weight of a foot cube, 189 lbs. 



CoRALiTic Marble. Supposed to be Grechetto and Palombino, 

 which see. Some of the marble so called is like fine ivory. 



CoTOGNiNO Alabaster. Yellow. 



CoTONELLO. M. White and bright minium red. 



DiNAN Marble. Modern. Black, used for pavements. Weight of 

 a foot cube, IS!) lbs. 



Flanders Marbles. Modern. Such as those of St. Ann, gray and 

 white, madreporic. Weight of a foot cube, 105 lbs. 



Flowery Marble. White and red, with twisting spots. 



GiALLO. The Italian for yellow, which see. 



Grand Antique, fide Antique. 



Granite (granilo, Ital.). Oriental. Black spots and white streaks. 

 — Black and while. Transparent while ground, with a few opaque 

 white spots ; probably the psaronion of the ancients.- — Gray, with 

 black and white transpareut spots, others milky and opaque. Weight 

 of a foot cube, IS'.t lbs. — 6^rai/, with little black spots. — Gref?!, trans- 

 parent white ground coloured with green, large oblong black spots. 

 — Red. Red or rose, black or white spots, smaller or larger. Of this 

 gi'anite Pompey's pillar is made. Weight of a loot cube, 189 lbs. — 

 Hose. With small rose, black and white spots. It seems to be the 

 Syenite of the ancients, or perhaps their Pyrrhopwcile, and their 

 Thebaic maibk. — Granite of the Vosges. Modern. A mixture of 

 rose, gray, and black, resembling Egyptian rose granite. The green 

 has grains of dark green, greenish white and black, very fine. — Nan- 

 kin Granite. Modern. A kind of Nankin marble, with small len- 

 ticular grains. 



Granitelle, or fine grained granite. It seems that many of the 

 granites which passed for oriental, were obtained from the Isle of 

 Elba, the quarries of which have been worked from a very ancient 

 period. 



Grechetto. Greek marble. A fine white, very close grain, harder 

 than other white marbles. Corallitic marble is supposed to have been 

 like it. 



Green (f'erde antico). Br. A beautiful dark green, with spots of 

 brighter green, pure white and fine black. The colours must be well 

 marked. If the green be of a grayish cast, the stone is not so valuable, 

 Sometimes the edges of the spots are tinged with green. This superb 

 breccia came from Laconia and Thessalonica There is a marble 

 which has a dark green ground, shaded with little bright green and 

 black veins. It has a silky look, and is perhaps the prasinam of the 

 aecients. — Suza Gbeen. fide Polzevehra. — Straw Green, fide 

 Straw. — ferde Sanguino Anlico. Br. Greenish grey, white, red and 

 black spots. — Egyptian Greex. Modern. Red ground, veined with 

 a dark and clear green, and white net work. Comes from the Genoese 

 coast. — Sea Green from Poize verra, which see. 



Gray Antique (Bigio Antico). M. A beautiful gray of a bluish 

 pearl tinge. It seems that there were quarries of this at Lesbos. 



Gbiotte. Mar. Modern. Deep red ground, nnxed with black and 

 white spirals arising from shells. Worked at Caune, in the depart- 

 ment of the Aude in France. — -Italian. So named, although it does 

 not come from that country, la of a uniform blood red almost without 

 veins. There are parts which resemble Antique Red, but which are 

 better as they show no white spots. Another Griotte is veined with 

 green. Weight of a foot cube, 189 lbs. 



Hymettus Marble. Greyish white, striated, very hard, vide page 

 434 of this volume. 



Languedoc Marble, or of Sainte Baume. Modern. Fiery red, 

 streaked with with white and grey, madreporic, with regular bands, 

 turning together. Worked at Alais, in the department of the Gard, 

 and at Portes, in that of the Herault, in France. The columns of the 

 arch of the Carrousel and those of the Trianon are made of this mar- 

 ble. It is very much admired even at Carrara, where it is shown as a 

 curiosity, as well as some columns of griotte of Canne, in a small 

 church built during the last few years. Weight of a foot cube, 185 

 pounds. 



LuMACELLE. These are formed of masses of shells, greyish brown, 

 veins of a transparent white. Another with rose veins. Another of a 

 beautiful yellow, with small black shells very close. Fall Lumacelle. 

 Vide Breccia, vide also Castracane. 



LuNi M.\KBLE. Very fine, a milky white, very fine grains, more 

 compact cement than that of ordinary Carrara ; takes a fine polish. 



Malpeaquet Marble. Modern. A vinous pale red, waved with 

 grey. These very common marbles are most used at Paris. 



Nankin Marble. Modern. A shelly marble, ground a rosy or yellow- 

 ish nankin, with white and bluish spots. Found in 1808 at Mansions, 

 Upper Garonne, France. When in good condition, they are good and 

 do not spot. One kind is called Nankin Granite, which see. 



Nero Antico. Italian for Antique Black, which see. 



Pagliocco. Italian for Straw colour, which see. 



Palombino. Dove marble. A milk white, very fine cement, re- 

 sembling creamy milk or ivory, without transparency. Supposed to 

 be the Coralitic marble of the ancients. 



Paragone. A name sometimes given to Antique Black or Nero 

 Antico. Paragone is properly the touchstone basalt. 



Parian Marble. A milk white, sometimes greyish, opaque, its 

 tissue is of grains smaller or larger, which determines two or three 

 varieties; it takes a fine polish; its contexture makes it harder to 

 work than fine Carrara. Weight of a foot cube, 196 lbs. 



Partridge Eye. Br. Black and red, spotted with white. 



Pavonazzo. Italian for Violet, which see. 



Peacock's Eye. Br. Red, white and yellow. 



Pecorello. Red and white spots, mixed with white circles. 



Penne St. Martin. Br. Modern. Yellow, white and grey, very 

 fine. Quarried at St. Beat, Upper Garonne in the Pyrenees, worked 

 by the Romans, and also at present. From this quarry columns 40 or 

 50 feet high may be obtained. 



Pentelican Marble. A yellowish white, close grained, having 

 other strise or greenish layers which cause it to peel off in the air. 

 Much used by the ancients. 



Persecchino. Peach blossom Breccia. Very fine with large white, 

 red and rose spots. There is a variety with small spots. 



PiETRA Fructiculosa. A siUcious breccia or pudding stone, com- 

 posed of round yellow and red pebbles, mixed with black dendrites. 



Pietra Santa. M. Whitish and rosy yellow, with very small 

 white veins and very compact. 



PoLZEVERRA. Br. Suza Green. Resembles Antique Green or 

 Verde Antique, but is not so fine nor so much esteemed. There is a 

 modern Sea Green Polzeverra, with a deep dark green ground, with 

 wavy bands and network of a clear green, mixed with white fila- 

 ments. 



Porphyry. Jllahanda, deep brownish red, liver colour, oblong 

 green spots. — Black. There is also a black marble of this name. 

 Black ground with white spots. — Serpenlino nero anlico, ride Serpen- 

 tine. — Breccia Porphyry. This porphyry is very fine, and imites 

 in itself almost all the kinds scattered over a brownish red ground. 

 — Brownish Black Ground. Greenish spots. — Green. Greenish 

 ground, mixed with white and black. — Deep Green Ground. Oblong 

 clear green spots. — Deep Green. White spots. — Deep Green Ground. 

 Black spots. — Clear Green Ground. Yellowish with black spots. — 

 Green, properly so called, deep blackish green ground, sometimes quite 

 clear, white, oblong, irregular spots. The ancients called ophites some 

 of these porphyries with a green or black ground.— /^'en/ Deep Greev. 

 Like jasper, oblong white spots larger than those of black porphyry, 

 and smaller than those of black serpentine. — Deep Green Ground. A 

 kind of jasper, with round oblong white spots. — J'ery deep Green 

 Ground. Large white irregular spots. — Flowery Green. Deep green 

 with small irregular white spots, interlaced like worms. — Red Ground. 

 Small and oblong, covered with black and white spots. Perhaps the 

 leplonephes of the ancients. — Thebaid, red ground, with yellow spots. 

 Weight of a foot cube of green porphyry, 230 itis. Red porphyry, 

 19G Its. 



PoRPORiNO. Italian for purple. 



Porta Santa. A marble breccia, so named, because used for a 

 gate of St. Peter's at Rome. — Flowered Porta .Santa is white or 

 grey, bluish, with purplish spots. — Porta Santa not flowered is a 

 Ireca red and white. 



Porto Venere, or Antique Portor. M. Black, veined with yellow. 

 The colours should be well marked.— Modern. M. Black, veined 

 with yellow and a little white. From Carrara in Italy, and from St. 

 Maximin, near Toulon, in France. 



PuRiCHiELLO. Red and white. 



Purple. — Porponno, Italian. 



Red. Ro&so Anlico. M. That of a fine quality should be of a deep 

 red bullock's blood colour, uniform, without black or white veins; the 

 grain is verv fine and very close, and takes a tine polish. In the 

 cement can be seen extremely small white points ; \\ hen they are 

 larger and like sand they injure the Antique Red, and render it dif- 

 ticu.t to work. It is not very hard, but uses the tools like a whetstone 

 for which purpose the ancients used it ; it is very rarely found in 

 large pieces, and is supposed to have been brought from Egypt. 

 Anxelato, red spotted with white. — Breccia Antique Red. Deep 

 red with clear spots. 



Rezziato. a kind of yellow marble with white net work. 



Rose, Antique Rose Breccia. Clear red ground with little spots 

 of rose and black, others white. Very rare. 



Rosso Antico, vide Red. 



Sainte Beaume, vide Languedoc. 



