LEVERIAN MUSEUM. 



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pointed bottom, which, as well as a raised zone or belt, 

 which encircles the middle of the outside, is wrought in 

 fluted or gadrooned work. Each side is ornamented with 

 a laughing cornuted satyr's head. Two grotesque sphinx- 

 like figures, half satyr, half dragon, with each a double 

 tail, serve as supporters - y their arms are extended to the 

 edge, and their hind parts, with wings expanded, under- 

 neath, resting on an oval base, which has a hollow 

 gadrooned edge. The whole is painted in the most 

 lively colours, and glazed. On the inside, within a 

 broad grotesque border, is represented a Roman naval 

 engagement ; the boarding of two ships by a number of 

 soldiers in boats, sword and shield in hand ; sailors fixing 

 their grappling hooks to facilitate the entrance of the 

 assailants, who are opposed by soldiers on board the ships 

 armed in like manner. The outside is enriched with 

 grotesque figures, supporting festoons of flowers, inter- 

 spersed, among which are birds, military achievements, 

 foliage, &c. This capital and masterly performance be- 

 speaks it the work of first rate genius, and renders it the 

 deserved object of general admiration. It was originally 

 in the Medicean Collection, and, at the time of the Duke 

 of Tuscany's taking possession of that valuable repository, 

 was, by mistake, put out, with other articles, for sale, and 

 purchased by the late Admiral Broderick, for a consi- 

 derable sum, on whose demise it came into the possession 

 of the late Sir Ashton Lever. 



110 A box formed of the Lumachelli marble, from Carinthia, 



the colours of which are uncommonly splendid 



111 An exceding fine specimen of thread-like chalcedony, crys- 



tallised in the hollow of a piece of quartz, Germany 



1 12 An elegant specimen of onachine agate, beautifully variegated 



with strata of Dove-colour, white, purple, &rc. from the 

 Palatinate 



113 Brilliant crystallized cobalt, Hesse 



114 A most capital mass of rkh oriental amber-coloured onach- 



ine chalcedony or Sardonyx, beautifully intersected by 

 regular veins of pure opake white. The general struc- 

 ture is cavernous, and the surface mammillated or bubbled. 

 This specimen which is esteemed to be wholly unrivalled,, 

 weighs nearly 224 pounds 



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