“Honour’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times” (Ben Jonson, Poetaster).
“And his hat turned up, with a silver clasp on his leer side” (Ben Jonson, Tale of a Tub).
[142] Bonnaffé (E.), La collection Spitzer, III, p. 134.
[143] Burlington Fine Arts Club, Catalogue of enamels, 1897.
[144] Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, IV, Nos. 1907 and 6789.
[145] L’Arte, II, p. 432, 1899.
[146] Hefner-Alteneck (J. H. von), Deutsche Goldschmiede-Werke des 16ten Jahrhunderts, Pl. 12.
[147] This legend is the subject of a striking picture by Quentin Matsys (itself rich in representation of jewellery), which forms the left wing of the magnificent “Deposition” (No. 245), in the Antwerp Museum. A famous relic, the skull of the saint in Amiens Cathedral, exhibits a hole over the eyebrow.
[148] I trattati dell’ oreficeria. Ed. Milanesi, 1857. Chapter on Minuteria.
[149] In the night of December 17th, 1860, the Galleria delle Gemme of the Uffizi was entered by thieves, who carried off a large number of gems and jewels. Most of the gems were recovered, but nearly all robbed of their settings. All the jewels were lost (Gotti, A., Le Gallerie di Firenze, pp. 229 and 388).