Félibien's Engraving |
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Adapted from Félibien, Plate IV, Item EE |
Paris, Louvre |
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Description
Vase of porphyry ornamented with a head of an eagle ofgilded vermeil. On it can be read these two lines:
Includi gemmis lapis iste meretur & auro:
Marmor set, sed in his marmore cavior est.
Félibien, pages 544. Translated by Jane Vadnal.
Conway (1915), p. 118. Click here for text. Also, See page 140 (Click here for that passage)
Félibien, page 544.
Louvre, no. 31, pp 183-7.
Montesquiou-Fezensac, I and II, no. 28,. III pp 42-4, pl 23-5.
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Created by J Vadnal, July, 1998