King, C. W. (Charles William), 1818-1888 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 384
c value, if they at all equalled one in the same style in theBeverley Cabinet attributed to Cellinis hand. The gem (a balais,prettily engraved with the head of a nymph) is mounted in a mouldedframe, upheld on either side by two tiny Cupids, seen sideways, eachpair standing on the shoulders of a… … SILVER RINGS. Eings in silver Lave come down to our times in abundance and greatvariety, some having the signet cut upon the metal itself (which ismore usually the case), sometimes set with intagli in gems. The factmentioned by Isidorus that this metal had become, under the Empire,the distinction…
Gems · Rings · Classical antiquities · Art, Ancient
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