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streets in honour of the occasion, the Emperor detected, " by the reflexion in the stone of a ring " upon his finger, one of their number taking advantage of the occasion to slip unobserved to the cup, still standing on the table of the reception-room, and help himself to a handful of its contents.
TASSIE'S PASTES, p. 359.
Tassie, a Scotch sculptor established in London (1770-1790), brought out an enormous series of pastes and enamels, from gems of all dates and styles, to the number of 15,000. He commenced with those taken from the entire collection of Stosch ; and subsequently reproduced every famous gem then known in all the cabinets of Europe. His pastes, however, are much inferior in finish and in quality to the Regent's. Tassie employed Easpe to publish a catalogue raisonne' of the series, illustrated with etchings, slight, though well drawn, by Allen of Edinburgh : the most useful book the student of dactyliography can possess.
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