The Archaeological journal . lapis lazuli, cornelian, amazon stone, glass, enamel, &c, and ninecopper coins of the date of the early part of the thirteenth century, allfound together in the bed of a water course in Oude. By Sir H. Lefroy.—A grotesque head in terra-cotta,from British Honduras, wearing two large circular ornaments in the is shaded by a species of canopy, resembling the raised visor of aknightly helmet, with ornamentation, which implies that the idea wasreally derived from a Spanish helmet, and therefore suggests a dateas late as the sixteenth century. Abov
The Archaeological journal . lapis lazuli, cornelian, amazon stone, glass, enamel, &c, and ninecopper coins of the date of the early part of the thirteenth century, allfound together in the bed of a water course in Oude. By Sir H. Lefroy.—A grotesque head in terra-cotta,from British Honduras, wearing two large circular ornaments in the is shaded by a species of canopy, resembling the raised visor of aknightly helmet, with ornamentation, which implies that the idea wasreally derived from a Spanish helmet, and therefore suggests a dateas late as the sixteenth century. Above the vizor is a species of beakbetween two circular holes, or eyes, recalling the Minerva head on thepottery from Troy. The whole is nine inches high. Sir Henry Lefroy,also exhibited a large vase in terra-cotta. By Mr. H. Vaughan.—A miniature, representing Peter Martyr, Italianwork, early sixteenth century; two Gothic keys, Italian work, of whichone is here figured. The length is six inches. The head is filled with. tracery patterns, that on one side being filed out of the solid, the other,of an entirely different design, being let in and braized. The delicatefile work in iron of this period may be seen in great perfection inthe hands of clocks, in which objects it was continued almost up to thepresent time, in ever diminishing beauty. But the fashion of stampingthe shapes of clock hands out of thin plates of steel into very inferiorforms has now quite supplanted a once beautiful art. Mr. Vaughan also exhibited a French Rennaissance key five incheslong, in general form very like the so-called Strozzi key which was latelysold for the high price of £1,200.
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