Engraved gems; their history and place in art, in which is embodied the author's former treatise, with extensive revisions and additions; reminiscences of travels in the pursuit and acquisition of engraved gems ... to which is added a descriptive list of the author's cabinet of gems, forming a compend of Greek and Roman classics and antiquities .. (1889)
Sommerville, Maxwell, 1829-1904 · Philadelphia, M. Sommerville · leaf 313
)athetic interest in my pursuit; lieA^ould take jdeasure in showing me his little museum, notAvholly with the thought of selling, but from the love of his■occupation. In fact, the pleasure was mutual: he saw howsincerely I Avas interested, and he would discourse on one … GENERAL DEALERS. 309 piece after another,^ takin<i now troin an old metallic coffera Grecian terra-cotta laiii[) witli three diverging Ijranches, theaperture in the centre where the main receptacle for the oilwas covered by an ornamental caj), on which was an elaboraterepresentation of Troy, its…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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