Examples of the works of art in the Museum and of the decorations of the building, with brief descriptions . (If-, iF TO. SKM OCOP* Nl!T , MO UNTED IN SET WITH MALACHITE. B E R N AL cToi-L> 3 - i< ? M ? ! N»7MS) COCOA NUT. MOUNTED IN 2116—1855. A GOOD example of the German style of mounting a cocoa nut aboutthe end of the sixteenth century, at that time a very common objectfor decoration not only abroad but in England. The fashion seems to havelasted for about sixty or eighty years. Examples are rare before 1550 andafter 1620. Sometimes, in fact probably in the m
Examples of the works of art in the Museum and of the decorations of the building, with brief descriptions . (If-, iF TO. SKM OCOP* Nl!T , MO UNTED IN SET WITH MALACHITE. B E R N AL cToi-L> 3 - i< ? M ? ! N»7MS) COCOA NUT. MOUNTED IN 2116—1855. A GOOD example of the German style of mounting a cocoa nut aboutthe end of the sixteenth century, at that time a very common objectfor decoration not only abroad but in England. The fashion seems to havelasted for about sixty or eighty years. Examples are rare before 1550 andafter 1620. Sometimes, in fact probably in the majority of such orna-ments, the cup had a cover, which has often been lost or destroyed. Thepresent specimen never had a cover. The upper portion of the mount consists of a broad well-designedband of silver, divided into three narrower bands by delicately workedrims. The top band immediately under the mouth of the cup is incisedwith a running scroll pattern, in the midst of which within a circle is thedate, 1585; an addition which gives great importance to the this is a narrower band filled with
Size: 1605px × 1557px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, bookpubli, booksubjectartobjects
