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Article ON THE LEGEND OF THE HOLY OR SAN GRAAL; ← Page 21 of 26 →
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On The Legend Of The Holy Or San Graal;
correct , the relic , from imperfect packing , got broken on the road . We are told , however ( and in this it has a like fate Avith the exquisite Portland Vase ) , that the fragments have been skilfully united ; and , as before , a fee of five shillings opens its repository to the tourist . Stillhow much soever this dish may have lost in monetary
, and marketable value by the investigation , it has perhaps gained in the estimation of the antiquary and the artist . The skilful examiners declared it decidedly antique and of superior Avorkmanship ; its colour is beautifully imitative of the emerald ; its transparency lucent , and the few bubbles in the mass but slight blemishes ; its corners are sharply cutits form pleasing
, , and its handles well placed , and cut from the solid . Its date is variously fixed . Chevalier Bossi , of Turin , believed it a production of the Augustan age at Rome ; but Millin thinks it cast during the Lower Empire , either at Constantinople or Ca ^ sarea : this latter place may have been mentioned to bring the locality in accordance Avith the strong and unvarying tradition of the
Eastern city , whence it was brought into Europe . As an object of the art of glass-moulding and cutting by the ancients , this vase certainly holds a high rank ; and if , as undoubtedly the Portland Vase in the British Museum must be esteemed the finest specimen of this kind existing , the Sacro Catino cannot be denied the second place .
Such are the three differing relations we mentioned at the outset , having , moreover , the Sangreal , or Sacro Catino as a common centre . Ancient and received tradition has , however , generally some foundation in fact , though frequently faint and almost obliterated by effluxion of time , or confused by false interpretations or ignorance ; and it is therefore the more
desirable that what can be recovered should be raked up and concentrated in as close a juxtaposition as possible , that by the light still remaining an all-sufficient illumination may be effected , to observe its genuine character and origin . We Avill try , therefore , if , in the above three varying legends , some consistency , and many points of contact , cannot be
introduced . Beginning then with the poem " Titurel ; " it is not entirely without allusion to England , and it would seem , also to Joseph of Arimathea and his tAveh'e missionary companions , sent by the apostle Philip from Gaul into Britain . Stanza seventy , speaking of the interior decorations of the Temple : — Gesimset und gespinnelt Waren die Kanzcl allumme , Viel Schonheit darauf eesumclt .
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On The Legend Of The Holy Or San Graal;
correct , the relic , from imperfect packing , got broken on the road . We are told , however ( and in this it has a like fate Avith the exquisite Portland Vase ) , that the fragments have been skilfully united ; and , as before , a fee of five shillings opens its repository to the tourist . Stillhow much soever this dish may have lost in monetary
, and marketable value by the investigation , it has perhaps gained in the estimation of the antiquary and the artist . The skilful examiners declared it decidedly antique and of superior Avorkmanship ; its colour is beautifully imitative of the emerald ; its transparency lucent , and the few bubbles in the mass but slight blemishes ; its corners are sharply cutits form pleasing
, , and its handles well placed , and cut from the solid . Its date is variously fixed . Chevalier Bossi , of Turin , believed it a production of the Augustan age at Rome ; but Millin thinks it cast during the Lower Empire , either at Constantinople or Ca ^ sarea : this latter place may have been mentioned to bring the locality in accordance Avith the strong and unvarying tradition of the
Eastern city , whence it was brought into Europe . As an object of the art of glass-moulding and cutting by the ancients , this vase certainly holds a high rank ; and if , as undoubtedly the Portland Vase in the British Museum must be esteemed the finest specimen of this kind existing , the Sacro Catino cannot be denied the second place .
Such are the three differing relations we mentioned at the outset , having , moreover , the Sangreal , or Sacro Catino as a common centre . Ancient and received tradition has , however , generally some foundation in fact , though frequently faint and almost obliterated by effluxion of time , or confused by false interpretations or ignorance ; and it is therefore the more
desirable that what can be recovered should be raked up and concentrated in as close a juxtaposition as possible , that by the light still remaining an all-sufficient illumination may be effected , to observe its genuine character and origin . We Avill try , therefore , if , in the above three varying legends , some consistency , and many points of contact , cannot be
introduced . Beginning then with the poem " Titurel ; " it is not entirely without allusion to England , and it would seem , also to Joseph of Arimathea and his tAveh'e missionary companions , sent by the apostle Philip from Gaul into Britain . Stanza seventy , speaking of the interior decorations of the Temple : — Gesimset und gespinnelt Waren die Kanzcl allumme , Viel Schonheit darauf eesumclt .