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[13] [14] Breaking the bronze ceiling is a phrase used to link “breaking the glass ceiling” with the lack of statues of women in America, since only 8% of sculptures around the U.S. are of women. [15] Previously, there had been no new additions to the statue collection in Central Park since the 1950s. [16]
The Dunaverney flesh-hook, Bronze Age Ireland. Flesh-hook is a term for a variety of archaeological artifacts which have metal hooks and a long handle, or socket for a lost wooden handle. Though the term may be applied to objects from other times and places, it is especially associated with the European Bronze Age and Iron Age. The metal shaft ...
Separated by a metal and glass screen, the mezzanine levels are used as pre-function space and dining areas. Located by the 12th Street entrance on the ground floor, the lobby is decorated by the original vault door from the third-floor mezzanine, the bronze ceiling from the safe deposit box area, and the tellers' counters from the banking hall.
The Little Thetford flesh-hook is a late Bronze-Age (1150 – 950 BC) artefact discovered in 1929 in Little Thetford, near Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.A flesh-hook is a metal hook with a long handle used to pull meat out of a pot or hides out of tan-pits.
The plaster ceiling of each vestibule contains multicolored reliefs and a hexagonal chandelier of bronze and glass hanging from a medallion at the center of the ceiling. The medallion is inset within a rectangular frame that contains Greek key motifs; there are depictions of monsters at each corner of the frame.
The source of the bronze to make the structure was an issue of contemporary controversy as it was believed to have been taken from the roof or portico ceiling of the ancient Roman Pantheon, though Urban's accounts say that about ninety percent of the bronze from the Pantheon was used for a cannon, and that the bronze for the baldachin came from ...