2-798-472 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Grand Buffet, St. George's Hall, at the Garter Banquet, given for His Majesty the King of the French, 1844. Royal plate at Windsor Castle used for banquets: 'the famous shield of Achilles; the Huma, or Peacock of Precious Stones; the Golden Tiger used by Tippoo Saib as his footstool...taken at the storming of Seringapatam, the Spanish Wine-fountain, taken from a ship of the Armada...costly specimens of English gold work, ranging from the massive sconces of Henry VIII. to the ponderous vases and salvers of Queen Anne...a matchless collection of the works of Benevenuto Cellini...jewelled cups, formerly used for sacramental purposes; vases of gold and crystal; and censers, formed of ivory and gold, the former most exquisitely carved in alto-relievo...specimens of George IV.'s. plate...chimeras, grotesques, Homeric fancies, marine groups and the like...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V.