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CASTELLANI ANTIQUES.
sition attracted such solid crowds of admirers as the Castellani collection
in
Memorial Hall. Etruscan gold-work; Greek and Roman jewelry; engraved
gems, seals, cameos, intagli; Byzantine enamels and Papal signets; old bronzes;
Greek marble statuary, in a few well-selected specimens; and a splendid ceramic
collection, made up the wealth of this splendid horde. We present engravings
of several of the specimens, leaving to the recollection of the visitor the
vastly
larger number of curios which our space does not permit us to illustrate.
No. i represents a single ear-ring of gold, of which the mate is not in the
collection.  It is
in pure Greek
taste,  though
found in Italy;
being either an
importation,  o r
manufactured by
a Greek artist on
Italian soil. The
date assigned to
it is 350 B.C. It
is of enormous
haps was never
worn, being found
as a votive offer-
ing in a Roman
tomb. It consists
of a curved plate
of gold, bearing
several stripes of
minute  rosettes
executed in grain-
work soldered on
to the plate: so
e, beg abou  ig.r. Gold Ear-ring, Greek design. Fig.3. Helix-shaped Ornament.
admirable is the
four inches   in   2. Dolphin Venus Ear-ring,.  "4. ecklace, B.
C. 700.
 sold e ri n g, that
length, and per-                                            none  of these
minute beads have been loosened by the action of time.     The pendant is
a
beautiful Greek face, showing the symmetry of the best period, from whose
mimic necklace hang the amphora      or wine-jars.  Its size, grace and good
preservation make this object exceedingly attractive.
No. 2, of which the original is about two inches long, is one of a pair of
ear-rings in the collection, representing the dolphins which were emblematic
of
Venus as a goddess sprung from the sea. The eyes, fins and other details
of
the figure are executed in the professional materials of the jeweler's art,
instead
of by engraving or moulding; that is to say, they are sketched upon the
smooth surface by lines of rope-work, applied and soldered on. The minute
gold cords of which this rope-work consists, so delicate yet so even, and
so
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