Examples of household taste . and vessels manufactured for the guilds or great corporations, which musthave been used in great quantities. In the older specimens the date of manu-facture cannot always be fixed with certainty, but after the beginning of thefifteenth century, when hall-marks began to be used, there is no trouble infixing the date. Lists of these have been prepared by the South Kensington INDUSTRIAL ART. 317 Museum, where they can be consulted by those wishing to investigate anyparticular mark. The next examples which we have selected from this fine collection ofElkington reprodu
Examples of household taste . and vessels manufactured for the guilds or great corporations, which musthave been used in great quantities. In the older specimens the date of manu-facture cannot always be fixed with certainty, but after the beginning of thefifteenth century, when hall-marks began to be used, there is no trouble infixing the date. Lists of these have been prepared by the South Kensington INDUSTRIAL ART. 317 Museum, where they can be consulted by those wishing to investigate anyparticular mark. The next examples which we have selected from this fine collection ofElkington reproductions are the Shield and Helmet engraved on page are the workmanship of Benvenuto Cellini, the best known of all themetal-workers of the sixteenth century. This famous artist was born in 1500,and having spent some years as an apprentice in one or two of the best work-shops of Florence, he worked in several towns of Italy. As time passed heestablished the highest reputation, and was largely employed at Rome by Pope. Silver Basket: Trostrup, Norway. Clement VII. Unfortunately Cellini was ordered by that pope to destroy aswell as to make ; and to his hand we must trace the destruction of numberlessartistic treasures which probably might, or at least some among them, havecome down to our own days. Whilst Clement was besieged in the castle ofSt. Angelo, Cellini tells us in his memoirs that he received orders to unset allthe precious stones that were upon the tiaras, the sacred vessels, and vestmentsof the pope, and to melt down the gold, of which he obtained two hundred-weight. We need not wonder, judging from this instance alone, why it is thatso very few pieces of ancient and mediaeval gold- and silver-work can now befound. Afterward Cellini went to France and was patronized by Francis I;yet, though he executed there many splendid works, only one can be identified—a gold salt-cellar, preserved in the museum at Vienna. 3io THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. Cellini, a
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