But the variety of articles thus composed of the precious metals was so great as almost to defy description.[803] There were candelabra,[804] thrones,[805] and chairs, shields,[806] basins and ewers,[807] flagons, censers, goblets in form of walnut-shells, ladles,[808] spoons, vinegar-saucers,[809] with almost every other article of the table. Crowns, likewise, for the heads of statues of princes, and successful generals, and other individuals whom the public desired to honour; with bread[810] and work baskets probably in filigree, clasps,[811] and spindles[812] for ladies, with armlets, anklets, bracelets, rings, necklaces of carbuncles,[813] earrings,[814] and circlets for the head. That these articles were usually formed with much taste and elegance we may infer from the fact, that artists of the greatest respectability were employed to make designs for them, while even the engravers of cups and goblets, as Mys, for example, sometimes acquired great celebrity.[815] Footnote 803: Among the Athenian chasers in metal Lycios obtained celebrity. Demosth. adv. Timoth. § 7. Cf. Suid. t. ii. p. 66. d. e. Footnote 804: Gitone, Il Costume, tavv. 61, 62. Raccolta de’ Monumenti più interessanti del Real Museo Borbonico, &c. tavv. 29, 30, 53, 54, 55. Athen. xi. 48. Footnote 805: Xenoph. Hellen. v. 1. 3. Plut. Lysand. § 9. Footnote 806: Pausan. i. 25. 7. Footnote 807: Athen. ix. 75. Footnote 808: Id. iii. 100. Footnote 809: Suid. v. Ὀξύβαφον. t. ii. p. 319. d. Footnote 810: Athen. vi. 15. Footnote 811: Ælian. Var. Hist. i. 18. Footnote 812: Herod. iv. 162. Footnote 813: Lucian. Dial. Meret. vi. i. Plut. Phoc. § 19. Among the necklaces in fashion were some of gold and amber beads intermixed. Luc. Heracl. § 3. A pair of earrings sometimes cost no more than five drachmas. Id. Somn. seu Gall. §29. Cf. Athen. xii. 46. Hom. Odyss. σ. 290. Footnote 814: Il. x. 182. Poll. ii. 102. Footnote 815: Athen. xi. 19. -----