Jewellery

Name: Jewellery
Author: Smith, H. Clifford (Harold Clifford)

Smith, H. Clifford (Harold Clifford)

Jewelry

Antique gem in red jasper, set in gold Italian mount
                  of the fourteenth century, inscribed:
                  S. FR. DE COLUMPNA. _p. 154._ (V. and A. M.)
          12.   Gold, set with a wolf's tooth, and inscribed with
                  the charm motto:
                  +BURO+BERTO+BERNETO+CONSUMMATUM EST.
                  English, fourteenth century. _p. 152._ (V. and A. M.)
          13.   Gold ornamental ring, chased, enamelled, and set
                  with emeralds. Italian, sixteenth century. (B. M.)
          14.   Gold signet ring with the arms of Mortimer. English,
                  seventeenth century. (V. and A. M.)
          15.   Silver-gilt wedding ring, set with two teeth. North
                  German, seventeenth century. _p. 262._ (V. and A. M.)
          16.   Fede ring, nielloed silver. Italian, fifteenth
                  century. _p. 173_ (V. and A. M.)
          17.   Ornamental ring of silver gilt, set with a foiled
                  crystal. German, sixteenth century. _p. 356._
                  (V. and A. M.)
          18.   The Percy signet. Gold. Inscribed: "NOW YS THUS."
                  From Towton Field, W. R., Yorks. English, fifteenth
                  century. _p. 153._ (B. M.)
          19.   Ornamental ring of silver gilt, with stag and foliage
                  in open-work.  German, late fifteenth century.
                  (V. and A. M.)
          20.   Gimmel rings, enamelled gold. German, sixteenth
                  century. _p. 261._ (B. M.)

 XXIV. PICTURE, KNOWN AS THE "LEGEND OF ST. ELOY AND ST. GODEBERTA,"
       REPRESENTING THE INTERIOR OF A GOLDSMITH'S SHOP IN THE FIFTEENTH
       CENTURY. By PETRUS CHRISTUS, OF BRUGES. _p. 155._
       (Baron A. Oppenheim, of Cologne)                          _p. 156._

 XXV. FIFTEENTH-CENTURY PENDANTS, ETC. (ITALIAN AND FLEMISH)     _p. 170._
        1.  The "Felicini" jewel, by Francia.  Reproduced from
              a picture in the Bologna Gallery. _p. 170._
        2.  Enamelled gold pendant, figured with the Annunciation.
              Italian, fifteenth century. _p. 173._
              (Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan.)
        3.  Pendent jewel of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy,
              set with three rubies ("the Brethren"), a diamond,
              and four pearls. _p. 209._
        4.  Two silver-gilt girdle-plates, with figures of Samson
              and St. Michael. Flemish, fifteenth century. _p. 163._
              (Herr James Simon, of Berlin.)

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