A descriptive catalogue of the bronzes of European origin in the South Kensington Museum (1876)
South Kensington Museum, Fortnum, C. Drury E. (Charles Drury Edward), 1820-1899 · London : Printed by G. E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode and sold by Chapman & Hall · leaf 366
heads. Italian. i6th cen-tury. H. 5 I in., L. i\ in., W. 5^ in. Bought (Bernal Col-ledion), 17/. On an iron or fteel foundation, covered with crimfon velvet, the orna-ments of gilded bronze are applied ; the pilafters and projecting edgingshaving been firft riveted to the fteel. An elaborate lock… … Chandeliers. other fhaped panels fet with plaques of jafper agate. Italian Italian. or Saxon ? 17th or early iSth century. H. 6f in., L. ci\ in., W. 6 in. Bought, 16/. A rich looking cafket, but of uncouth form, and badly accentuated inits lines ; weak at the angles, the bafe, and the infertion and…
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