judgment, was fit to sur-vive, for the same plastoline model was frequentlyrecreated in other forms. About a dozen years ago a Frenchman broughtto this country what at first glance seemed to bea dodecadrachm of Syracuse. On the obversethere was an original head of almost as much beautyas that of… … A BEDROOM CANDLESTICK A dealer, showing this medaUion to an art col-lector, found that he admired it very much whenit was spoken of as a work of Greek art, but whenhe learned that it had been made by a livingFrenchman his countenance fell. Remarking this,the dealer said to him: Do you wish the man…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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