Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
[England? : s.n.] · leaf 28
the Empire Jewel Cabinet, which is the last pieceillustrated in M. Williamsons book. Much wasgiven away to foreign potentates, ambassadors, andothers. We were ourselves acquainted with a fine THE UOYAL COLLECTIONS. 111 Oriental vase with magnificent Louis XV. brass records of the «rentes a la eriee… … OUTSIDE OF EBONY RUBENS CABINET. present to the reigning Sultan, and had by him been thought it his duty to supporl contemporary in-given to some palace favourite, or else purloined and dustries, and was influenced also by the desire ofsold. Much, again, was dispersed by auction. The novelty. 112…
