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 93
ing, gentle, forgiving Redeemer: no droj) is there, and yetthere are tears in tliose eyes. It is what the law of Moses hadforbidden—a likeness of something in heaven, a portraiture ofDivinity. Innumerable scenes and groups—the anniinciation of theangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary; the scene in the… … CHINESE. The glyptic work of the Cliinese is pi-incipally what isdesignated hasso-rUieco; it is on nacre, bronze, jade, ame-th}-8t, and agahiiatoHte. What i)atience it must have requiredto cut those ornaments in jade for sceptres and oflicial swords !Many pieces which we see only in museums have…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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