Examples of the works of art in the Museum and of the decorations of the building, with brief descriptions (1881)
South Kensington Museum · London, S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington · leaf 122
de with a round turret or buttress, the shafts being crystal.In the centre of the panel is a circular case covered with a crystal, in whichprobably the chief relic was originally deposited. On the back is an incisedfigure of the Virgin and Child, with a background of floriated ornamentin niello.… … CABINET. WALNUT-WOOD. No. 772—1865. OF French art, this cabinet dates from about the year 1550. At thatperiod the renaissance in France had advanced far beyond the extent towhich it had been received in England and Flanders. Francis the Firsthad not only sent workmen to be educated in Florence and…
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