The Loan Collection, South-Kensington, 1862. 'Cup, in form of a partridge; the body formed of overlapping pieces of mother-of-pearl in imitation of 1600. Baron L. de Rothschild. "The Cellini ;...On each side of the sardonyx centre are projecting female is the head and body of a man terminating in two dragons' tails; on the head of this last figure stands a sort of cockatrice or its wings a Cupid is neck of the vase also set with work of the 16th century. This magnificent ewer formed part of the Cro
The Loan Collection, South-Kensington, 1862. 'Cup, in form of a partridge; the body formed of overlapping pieces of mother-of-pearl in imitation of 1600. Baron L. de Rothschild. "The Cellini ;...On each side of the sardonyx centre are projecting female is the head and body of a man terminating in two dragons' tails; on the head of this last figure stands a sort of cockatrice or its wings a Cupid is neck of the vase also set with work of the 16th century. This magnificent ewer formed part of the Crown jewels of France before the first J. B. Beresford Hope, Esq. Very remarkable vase, of the third or fourth century, formed of glass, which is of a pale ruby of the figures represents an aged man whose limbs are entangled with vine-branches, possibly Lycurgus, King of the the left is Pan, followed by a dog or remarkable vase may, from its workmanship, be of the kind called by the ancients diatreta, and which seems to have been made by a special class of workmen, the Lionel Rothschild'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.
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