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Page xxxv
... late as the days of Aristophanes , when we find similar nature - seals ( wormeaten bits of wood ) recommended as signets proof against all forgery , to which the more elaborate productions of the engraver were then so liable . From the ...
... late as the days of Aristophanes , when we find similar nature - seals ( wormeaten bits of wood ) recommended as signets proof against all forgery , to which the more elaborate productions of the engraver were then so liable . From the ...
Page xli
... late in the republican period , as the modern- ized treatment of many of the intagli upon such gems plainly shows . It is impossible to fix the date when they began to substitute signet - rings for this primitive ornament . Pliny ...
... late in the republican period , as the modern- ized treatment of many of the intagli upon such gems plainly shows . It is impossible to fix the date when they began to substitute signet - rings for this primitive ornament . Pliny ...
Page xlii
... and has left us innumerable relics of the extra- ordinary skill of the workmen in glass until it ceases. Nereid and Hippocampi . Cameo . Late Sassanian Portrait : perhaps Chusroes 11. Calcedony . Helmet. xlii A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF.
... and has left us innumerable relics of the extra- ordinary skill of the workmen in glass until it ceases. Nereid and Hippocampi . Cameo . Late Sassanian Portrait : perhaps Chusroes 11. Calcedony . Helmet. xlii A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF.
Page xliv
... stones . The demand for these signets throughout the East , and the taste required for the. Late Sassanian Portrait : perhaps Chusroes 11. Calcedony . Helmet of King Stanislas Poniatowsky : Greek . Jasper -. xliv A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF.
... stones . The demand for these signets throughout the East , and the taste required for the. Late Sassanian Portrait : perhaps Chusroes 11. Calcedony . Helmet of King Stanislas Poniatowsky : Greek . Jasper -. xliv A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF.
Page lii
... Late Egyptian . Topaz . 6. NAKED MAN touching his ancle : perhaps an Apoxyomenos . Greco - Italian of the best period . Amethyst . 7. WARRIOR plunging a sword into a human head which he carries in his left hand : perhaps Tydeus with the ...
... Late Egyptian . Topaz . 6. NAKED MAN touching his ancle : perhaps an Apoxyomenos . Greco - Italian of the best period . Amethyst . 7. WARRIOR plunging a sword into a human head which he carries in his left hand : perhaps Tydeus with the ...
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Abraxas Agate Amethyst amongst amulets ancient antique gems Antique paste appears artists Assyrian Augustus bearing beauty Beryl bronze bust Cabinet Calcedony camei cameo Carnelian Caylus century coins colour crown Crystal Cupid deities Diamond Dioscorides Egyptian Emerald emperor Empire engraved engraved gems Etruscan execution favourite Fcap figures finest finger Garnet gem-engraving gems glass Gnostic gold ring Greek Green Jasper ground hand head Hence Hercules Herz Collection imitation inscription intagli Jacinth jewellers Julius Cæsar Jupiter king Lapis-lazuli legend letters lion Lord lustre manner metal Mithras modern nature Onyx origin ornaments period Persian Plates Pliny portrait Post 8vo precious stones present probably Red Jasper relief Roman Rome Ruby rude Sapphire Sard Sardonyx Sassanian scarabs seals Second Edition seen Serapis serpent signet Stosch style subjects taste Theophrastus Third Edition tion usually vases Venus virtue Vols wear wearer whilst Woodcuts worn
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