Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
[England? : s.n.] · leaf 139
e service of Francis I no earlier than1540. Whoever, then, produced this wonderfulobject, it is an extraordinary specimen of metal-work. The subjects of the figure panels of theshield, which is of silver inlaid with gold, arefrom the lives of Julius (Itesar and Pompey. Two ofthe four quarters of… … HALF-SUIT OF A BOY, WITH CARTOUCHES. Pompey is presented to him. The four subjects areseparated by terminal female figures; and whereverthere is the smallest space for elaborate inlaid work,that space has been taken advantage of to theutmost. Round the edge of the shield, which hasa longish…
