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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 423

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. Firft half of i6th century. H.i\ in., diam. \\ in. Bought, 4/. A very elegant piece. A pan-ftiaped vafe centre is fupported onfcrolls beneath rams heads. The body, divided by turned mouldings, ischafed with foliated ornamentation in ftiaped panels, fome of which havebeen damafcened with filver.… … Inkfiands. 153 3624. 56. INKSTAND. Bronze. In the form of a cafket, fupported Italian.on four claw feet. The cover decorated in relief with aMedufas head encircled by a wreath, and flanked by two cupidsholding ribbons. A honeyfuckle border furrounds it. Thefides are enriched with foliated…

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