. American homes and gardens. Contemporary wax portraitby Ethel Frances Mundy. TRANGE it seems that so many fragile ob- Wax portraiture is one of the arts of the past so little jects have come down to us from antiquity known to many collectors, that examples of it are not often while cities of stone,statues of marbleand monuments ofbronze too oftenhave appeared lost forever. Onbeholding a perfect glass vase whosehistory dates back to Phoeniciantimes, but which has survived cen-turies of vicissitudes, one cannot butreflect upon the extraordinary for-tune of things apparently so perish-able. The
. American homes and gardens. Contemporary wax portraitby Ethel Frances Mundy. TRANGE it seems that so many fragile ob- Wax portraiture is one of the arts of the past so little jects have come down to us from antiquity known to many collectors, that examples of it are not often while cities of stone,statues of marbleand monuments ofbronze too oftenhave appeared lost forever. Onbeholding a perfect glass vase whosehistory dates back to Phoeniciantimes, but which has survived cen-turies of vicissitudes, one cannot butreflect upon the extraordinary for-tune of things apparently so perish-able. The visitor to the SouthKensington (Albert and Victoria)Museum in London often expressesastonishment on beholding little waxmodels that have come downthrough hundreds of years, or, whendiscovering a portrait of Michel-angelo molded in wax relief byMichelangelos intimate, LeoneLeoni, which now reposes in theBritish Museum, wonders that Time
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