lapidarist

DeFazio said she had a friend, Lowell Rose, 56, a silversmith and lapidarist, and he was just gone one day.

His minute and careful attention to detail might best be compared to the art of the lapidarist" (Introduction, The Emblems xviii).

Photographer, Lapidarist and wild-life expert, he lived life to the full and will be greatly missed.

1830), a petrifactionist (mineral dealer and lapidarist) of Matlock Bath.

In a process she developed while a student, Scheidler melts glaze materials in moulds and then, like a lapidarist, cuts and polishes the fused result.

And so for example you may find the work of the lapidarist Matteo dal Nassaro, who originally worked for Francis I from 1515 to 1547 (in a studio near the Louvre on the right bank of the Seine, whose waters drove the wheels Matteo needed for cutting and polishing metals and precious stones) in the collections of a wealthy scrap dealer -and why not.

But whereas the undiplomatic Stanford repeatedly regretted his incautious tongue, the equally undiplomatic Elgar collected grievances (real or imagined) with a lapidarist's devotion, and afterwards exhibited considerable relish in elaborate belittlement of Stanford while giving a public lecture.