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BRITISH CONTRIBUTIONS. 297
richly decorated with diamonds, pearls, rubies, carbuncles,
sapphires, and emeralds, relieved by a cinque-cento orna-
mental ground in enamel. It is almost superfluous to say
that this work, rare in design and execution, received at
the general award a prize of high order.
Among the gems in this department of the Exhibition,
was a superb emblematical brooch in the style of the
jewels of the cinque-cento period. It comprehended
the figure of Britannia standing on a shell within a
gothic niche, enriched with columns of carbuncles, and
beneath was a winged dragon, from which three pearl
drops were suspended. This unique brooch, composed
of 908 diamonds and 15 rubies, gained the prize for its
superior workmanship in the setting of stones. It issued
from the manufactory of Messrs. Gass, of Regent-street,
as did also a silver gauntlet-bracelet, executed in the
ancient art of Niello, after an original design by
D. Maclise, R.A., comprehending three subjects, namely,
—the promised gift, the bracelet ordered, and its pre-
sentation, which was honourably mentioned by the com-
mittee. Mr. Hope, M.P., exhibited a blue diamond
weighing 177 grains, mounted as a medallion, aud sur-
rounded with brilliants, supposed, from its size and
colour, to be unique. Among the most admired con-
tributions of Hancock, of Bruton- street, who received
a council medal for the originality and taste of his pro-
ductions, were three groups exquisitely modelled in
silver; of these, the first represented Robin Hood con-
testing for the golden arrow, and the second (modelled
by Baron Marrochetti, the eminent sculptor,) portrayed
the death of that faithful adherent of Charles I., Lord
Francis Yilliers, at Kingston, in 1618, falling beneath
the weapons of Cromwell's soldiers : both of these were
Goodwood prizes, the first being won by Lord Stanley,
and the second by Viscount Clifden. The third group
was a spirited delineation of the conflict between Guy,
Earl of Warwick, and the dragon, designed by Macarthy,
and constituted the Warwick prize, gained by the Mar-
vol. n. 2 q ■
richly decorated with diamonds, pearls, rubies, carbuncles,
sapphires, and emeralds, relieved by a cinque-cento orna-
mental ground in enamel. It is almost superfluous to say
that this work, rare in design and execution, received at
the general award a prize of high order.
Among the gems in this department of the Exhibition,
was a superb emblematical brooch in the style of the
jewels of the cinque-cento period. It comprehended
the figure of Britannia standing on a shell within a
gothic niche, enriched with columns of carbuncles, and
beneath was a winged dragon, from which three pearl
drops were suspended. This unique brooch, composed
of 908 diamonds and 15 rubies, gained the prize for its
superior workmanship in the setting of stones. It issued
from the manufactory of Messrs. Gass, of Regent-street,
as did also a silver gauntlet-bracelet, executed in the
ancient art of Niello, after an original design by
D. Maclise, R.A., comprehending three subjects, namely,
—the promised gift, the bracelet ordered, and its pre-
sentation, which was honourably mentioned by the com-
mittee. Mr. Hope, M.P., exhibited a blue diamond
weighing 177 grains, mounted as a medallion, aud sur-
rounded with brilliants, supposed, from its size and
colour, to be unique. Among the most admired con-
tributions of Hancock, of Bruton- street, who received
a council medal for the originality and taste of his pro-
ductions, were three groups exquisitely modelled in
silver; of these, the first represented Robin Hood con-
testing for the golden arrow, and the second (modelled
by Baron Marrochetti, the eminent sculptor,) portrayed
the death of that faithful adherent of Charles I., Lord
Francis Yilliers, at Kingston, in 1618, falling beneath
the weapons of Cromwell's soldiers : both of these were
Goodwood prizes, the first being won by Lord Stanley,
and the second by Viscount Clifden. The third group
was a spirited delineation of the conflict between Guy,
Earl of Warwick, and the dragon, designed by Macarthy,
and constituted the Warwick prize, gained by the Mar-
vol. n. 2 q ■