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Roman metalwork, (1898). Examples of ancient Roman items made of bronze: 'Fig 1: Fountain-figure, representing a drunken Faun. One of the bronze figures, found at Pompeii [Italy] (1880) and belonging to the most excellent works of this kind. Figs 2 and 3: Two lamps (lucerna), in the Museum at Naples. Figs 4 and 5: Great candelabrums, in the Collection of the Louvre at Paris. Figs 6 and 8: Great candelabrums in the Museum at Naples. Fig 7: Side-view of the head of the candelabrum Fig. 6 (magnified). Fig 9: Candelabrum-head, at Naples. Fig 10: Two-armed small candelabrum with figure of a Faun, at Naples. Fig 11: Bisellium, seat of honour for magistrates, beautifully profiled, in the Louvre at Paris. Figs 12 and 13. Tripods from Herculaneum, in the Museum at Naples. Figs 14 and 15. Little masks, being fragments of decorations, at Naples'. Plate 10 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898] (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/The Print Collector)