Some curious agates, and a chaplet of admirable invention, the intagliosbeing all on fruit stones.
In connection with the mediæval use of ancient engraved stones, the fashion of wearing Roman intaglios in rings has already been noticed.
Far from cameos and the less decorative intaglios being considered out of place with fine precious stones, they often occupied positions of honour, surrounded and mounted occasionally with important diamonds.
Both cameos and large intaglios were in frequent use as pendent ornaments, and in the most recent pieces of Roman jewellery imperial gold coins were employed for rings, bracelets, and especially for pendants to necklaces.
These intagliosare engraved in the Museum Florentinum of Gorius, vol.
It represented literally Virgil's account of the story, and the only difference between the design on the intaglios and the one given in our first cut is, that in the latter the personages are represented under the forms of monkeys.
We notice the same head-dress on several intagliosand monuments, and also on the terra-cotta plaque which will be found on p.
The dressing of the hair in coils and elaborate erections, as seen in the various figures engraved upon Chaldæan intaglios (cf.
At all periods many intaglios are found which could not have been so employed without great difficulty.
Cameo-work as compared with intaglios in classical times was rare and infrequent, but now and onwards the opposite is the case, intaglio-sinking having almost died out, and cameos being chiefly produced.
Apart from the use of intagliosfor sealing, the excavations have shown that the Cretan lapidaries were largely employed in the working of gems for purposes of decoration.
The intaglios of the Phoenicians are either on cylinders or on gems, and can rarely be distinguished, unless they are accompanied by an inscription, from the similar objects obtained in such abundance from Babylonia and Assyria.
We find, too, intaglios engraved on glass of various and often most exquisite tints at least as early as the fourth century B.
The bright colours of these compare unfavourably with the delicate hues of the glass intaglios that have come down from classical times.
The Assyrian intaglios on stones and gems are commonly of a rude description; but occasionally they exhibit a good deal of delicacy, and sometimes even of grace.
Transparent glass seems now to have been first brought into used and intaglios to have been first cut upon hard stones.
We have also evidence of their skill in the mechanical processes of shaping pottery and glass, of casting and embossing metals, and of cutting intaglios upon hard stones.
The archaic people of ancient Etruria did not make cameos, their gems were intaglios and were incised on the under side, on forms shaped in the model of the scarabæus or beetle.
In the island of Sardinia have been found numerous intaglios under the form of scarabs, they were apparently used as signets.
These intaglios can be divided from the nature of the subjects into three varieties.
Babylonian intaglios continued to be imported into the West down to the time of the Romans, it is not likely that they were imitated by Western artists after the latter had become acquainted with better and more attractive models.
The intaglios have ceased to be Babylonian, and have become markedly Assyrian.
I have a fine Cleopatra cut in sardonyx, and one or two other intaglios and cameos, both curious and beautiful, worthy of being added to the cabinet of a prince.
I have one or two intaglios of much beauty," said Tito, proceeding to draw from his wallet a small case.
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