THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE 



ing picture the crown form is wholly left. There 

 appears a colossal arabesque, a fabulous chande- 

 lier fit for the throne room of the water sprites, 

 decorated with exaggerated heraldric antlers. 

 Now appears a trellised ball with spears but this 

 time the structure is fundamentally different. 

 As with the exquisite Japanese work, there are 

 two balls, the smaller one lying concentric in the 

 middle of the larger. Six rods hold the inner 

 one in suspension. These beams extend spear- 

 like outside the outer ball, branching starlike in 

 all pricipal directions. They do not end in 

 weak lance points but in strong gothic crucifer- 

 ous flower forms. So it goes on in quick succes- 

 sion, as though there stood before us a princely 

 collection of silver prepared specimen after 

 specimen for the Cellini. Gorgeous helmets, a 

 part in fantastic form, a part strikingly calling 

 to mind the familiar forms in our armorial mus- 

 eums, shirts of mail, chain, Saracen shields, 

 crosses, patterns of our familiar stars of orders 

 from the black eagle to the iron cross, the most 

 artistic baskets of twisted silver, bowls and 

 tankards, vases with the famous pierced pendant 

 covering of the costly old Roman specimens. 

 Last appears a true point lace of silver cobweb 

 threads, and a trellis ball with all the meshes 

 over-built with tentlike pyramids. These are of 

 silver wands each one of which bears on the sum- 



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