An Illustrated Dictionary of Words used in Art and Archaeology / Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations.

by John W. Mollett

Fig. 582. Reticulated Vase. Japanese.

Reticulated Porcelain is an Oriental product, of which the outer side is entirely cut out in geometric patterns, honeycomb, circles intercrossed and superposed to a second vase of similar, or of simply cylindrical form. Fig. [582] is a specimen of this style.

Fig. 583. Reticulatum opus.

Reticulated Work, Arch. (Lat. reticulata structura, literally, made like a net). Masonry constructed with diamond-shaped stones, or Quarrels, shown in Figs. 493 and 583. The latter shows one of the mouths of the cloaca opening on the Tiber. Reticulata fenestra was a window grated over with bars of wood or metal crossing in the form of network.

Reticulum, R. Diminutive of rete, a net.

Retinaculum, R. (retineo, to hold back). A rope used to moor a vessel to the shore.

Retorted, Her. Intertwined.

Retro-choir, Chr. Arch. Chapels behind or about the choir.

Reverse. The back of a medal. In very ancient coins this had no mark except that of the instrument by which it was fixed to receive the stamp of the obverse. By degrees this grew into a figure of a dolphin or some other animal. Some ancient Greek reverses are intaglios of the stamp in relief of the obverse. Complete reverses appear on Greek coins about 500 B.C., and are of exquisite execution. (Cf. Obverse.)