. Catalogue of the furniture, marbles, bronzes, clocks, candelabra, majolica, porcelain, glass, jewelery, goldsmith's and silversmith's work, ivories, medals, illuminations, miniatures, and objects of art generally, in the Wallace collection . de-lys referring to the RoyalHouse of France. French. XV Century. 572. Casket with plaques of steel damascened with arabesquesin gold. The frame-work is of gilt metal engraved andchased. Probably French. Latter Half of XVI Century. 575. Casket with plaques of steel elaborately inlaid and damas-cened in gold, the chief designs relating to the chase. Frenc
. Catalogue of the furniture, marbles, bronzes, clocks, candelabra, majolica, porcelain, glass, jewelery, goldsmith's and silversmith's work, ivories, medals, illuminations, miniatures, and objects of art generally, in the Wallace collection . de-lys referring to the RoyalHouse of France. French. XV Century. 572. Casket with plaques of steel damascened with arabesquesin gold. The frame-work is of gilt metal engraved andchased. Probably French. Latter Half of XVI Century. 575. Casket with plaques of steel elaborately inlaid and damas-cened in gold, the chief designs relating to the chase. French. End of XVI or beginning of XVII Century. 578. Miniature Tabernacle or Shrine, carved with extra-ordinary elaboration in Box-wood. On the base are represented the Creation, the Temptation, theExpulsion, and Adam and Eve after the FalL The centre and wingsof the Shrine show, among other subjects, the Adoration of tlieShepherds and the Adoration of the Magi. The architectural type of the Shrine somewhat recalls that ofAdam Kraffts famous stone tabernacle, the Sakraments-Hiiuslein,in the Lorenz-Kirche, at Nuremberg. Some of the architectural detailis, on the other hand, closely akin to the very late and over-luxuriantGothic of
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