296 THE DUBLIN MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND ART. 



Gothic Architecture. — There are a few specimens from the grand 

 French cathedrals which should be very useful and instructive to ecclesi- 

 astical architects, and many casts of Gothic capitals and other details. 



Renaissance and Subsequent Work. — Of the works of the great 

 sculptors of the fifteenth and following centuries in Italy and France there 

 are many important copies in the Museum, comprising statues and other 

 objects by D. da Settignano, Donatello, Michael Angelo, L. Delia Robbia, 

 Goujon, Pilon, and others, and carefully coloured models of some of the 

 most celebrated examples of decoration in Italian ecclesiastical buildings. 

 The collections of Gems and Cameos, and of Coins and Medals, are good, 

 and very useful to those who have little opportunity of studying larger 

 collections. 



Indian and other Oriental Art.— The fine metal work from various 

 parts of India and from Thibet, the specimens of Needlework and Textiles, 

 and the varied patterns of the delicate relief works of Moghul times in the 

 casts from their ancient seats of government are valuable examples of 

 Oriental taste, design and workmanship. 



Jewellery. — There are four cases of Jewellery : Greek and Roman style, 

 English and Irish, foreign and peasant Jewellery. In the first are a copy of 

 the very fine Greek monile or necklet in the British Museum, and reproduc- 

 tions of some of the very remarkable ancient Etruscan ornaments by the 

 late Caxlo Giuliano. 



Musical Instruments. — Here there are instruments of many primitive 

 and barbarous nations, which are interesting to ethnologists and to those 

 who would study how the percussion, wind and string instruments of the 

 present European orchestra have been evolved from very simple beginnings, 

 and there are more modern instruments, which illustrate the history of their 

 manufacture in Dublin, such as the Irish harp at various epochs, the Irish 

 bagpipes and spinets and early pianofortes made in Dublin. 



Furniture. — -This a branch of the Museum which has been greatly 

 increased during the last five years, and now comprises a number of good 

 examples of Italian furniture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, 

 of French chiefly of the time of Louis XIV., Louis XV., and Louis XVI., 

 and of English of the Stuart and Queen Anne periods, and more especially 

 of the times of Chippendale and his immediate successors. It is hoped that 

 these specimens will not only serve as a high standard of good design and 

 fine workmanship to the furniture makers of Ireland, but will afford, what is 

 much more necessary, examples of good taste to the public, on whom it must 

 utimately depend on what lines the making of furniture will be carried on in 

 future. 



Pottery and Porcelain. — Of Ceramics there is a fairly complete col- 

 lection of almost every make, in which persons interested in this artistic craft 

 can see the various materials, glazes, and methods of decorating and colour- 

 ing, as well as the very different roads by which different peoples at dif- 

 ferent times have imparted, or tried to impart, artistic value to their produc- 

 tions. 



In the collection of GLASS there are numerous specimens of old Venetian 

 of most delicate workmanship, some interesting Persian pieces, and one of 

 the best examples that can anywhere be seen of the fine glass lamps that 

 used to hang in the Mosques of Cairo, and of which several are now the 



