Musæum Tradescantianum: or, A collection of rarities.: Preserved at South-Lambeth neer London by John Tradescant.

VII. Mechanick artificiall Works in Car∣vings, Turnings, Sowings and Paintings.

• SEverall Heads cut on Agates.
• Divers Figures cut on Shells.
• Variety of Figures cut in crystalls.
• Divers sorts of Doublets.
• Divers sorts of Ambers, with
  • Flyes
  • Spiders
    • naturall.
• A Bird sitting on a pearch naturall.
• Comelian-cup. Amber-cup, and Amber-bottle, turned. A Crystall bottle.
• Severall things rarely cut in Corall.
• Divers sorts of Corall, one with Mosse in it.
• Divers things cut on Plum-stones.
• Heliotropian spoone.
• Many cups of Agates.
• Cornelian thum-cases of the Turks.
• ...

• Several curious paintings in little forms, very antient.
• Splene-stones, divers sorts.
• The Indian lip-stone which they wear the in lip.
• A little Box with the 12 Apostles in it.
• A silver Box with 6 divisions.
• Turkish Alkaron in a silver box.
• The Roman measure called Ligula.
• Divers sorts of Purses of Outlandish work in gold and silver.
• Jupiter, Jo and Mercury wrought in Tent-stitch.
• Divers sorts of Straw-worke wrought with a needle.
• Cloath spun of the downe of yellow feathers.
• Chirurgeons Instruments framed upon the points of needles.
• Halfe a Hasle-nut with 70 pieces of housholdstuffe in it.
• A Cherry-stone holding 10 dozen of Tortois-shell••combs, made by Edward Gibbons.
• A nest of 52 wooden-cups turned with∣in each other as thin as paper.
• A Hollow cut in wood, that will fit a round, square and ovall figure.
• ...

• The story of the Prodigall son carved in wood: Antient.
• Persius and Andromeda carved in an Ivory table.
• Figures and stories neatly carved up∣on Plum-stones, Apricock-stones, Cherry-stones, Peach-stones, &c.
• A Cherry-stone, upon one side S. Geo: and the Dragon, perfectly cut: and on the other side 88 Emperours faces.
• The martyrdome of the Bishop of Am∣phipolis carved in Alabaster.
• Severall Landskips, Beasts, Cities, Rocks, naturally wrought in stones.
• Landskips
• Stories—
• Trees—
• Figures—
  • cut in Paper by some of the Emperours.
• Divers rare and antient pieces carved in Ivory.
• Two figures carved in stone by Hans Holben.
• A large piece of Fortification cut in wood.
• A Deske of one entire piece of wood rarely carved.
• A modall of the Tower of Strasburg carved in wood.
• A rare piece of hollow••carved worke in fashion of a Book.
• ...

• A Cherry-stone with a dozen of woo∣den-spoons in it.
• A dozen of silver Spoons in a little box.
• Flea chains of silver and gold with 300 links a piece and yet but an inch long.
• A dozen of little Sheers.
• Little chains of silver, gold, and straws, small as haire.
• Divers curiosities of turned worke in
  • Amber.
  • Ivory.
• A little wheele and spindle turned in Amber.
• A cup turned in a pepper-corne and garnished with Ivory.
• A set of Chesse••men in a pepper-corn turned in Ivory.
• Divers sorts of Ivory-balls turned one within another, some 6, some 12 folds; very excellent work.
• Rolls of the Barkes of Trees wherein are graved the China, Arabian, and Ea∣stern Languages.
• Plates engraved in
  • Gold.
  • Silver.
  • Copper.
• Divers medalls cast off in severall me∣talls.
• A Copper-plate enameled with the sto∣ry of the Salutation.
• ...

• Divers rich enamell'd plates of—
  • Gold.
  • Silver.
  • Copper.
  • Brasse.
• An ancient annointing Box of guilt-brasse.
• Effigies of divers Personages of honor, note and quality.
• Severall figures, heads, and essigies cast of in plaister of Paris.
• Several sorts of imbost Wax-works cu∣rious,
• Phaëton with his Chariot and Horses, excellent wax-works.
• Divers figures moulded and painted.
• A glasse-hatt-band spun in fine threds.
• A glasse-basket full of severall fruits.
• Back-work wrought upon glasse.
• Variety of glasse in many curious forms.
• Backside work acht upon crystall.
• Two severall modells of the Sepulcher at Jerusalem; one in wood: the other in plaister.
• Mosaick work of divers sorts.
• Severall draughts and pieces of paint∣ing of sundry excellent Masters
• A small Landskip drawn by Sir Nath: Bacon.
• ...

• The figure of a Man singing, and a Woman playing on the Lute, in 4^o paper; The shadow of the worke being David's Psalmes in Dutch.
• Prince of Orange's picture shadowed with writing in the afore-recited manner.
• Old Parre's picture.
• A Booke of Mr. TRADESCANT'S choicest Flowers and Plants, exquisitely limned in vellum, by Mr. Alex: Marshall.
• A Book of all the Stories in the glasse-windowes of Sancta Sophia, lim'd in vel∣lum by a Jew.
• Divers sorts of pictures wrought in feathers.
• A little Box made of straw and silke.
• Indian books made of Phillyrea.
• Indian paper made of
  • Grasses.
  • Straw.
  • Rinds of trees.
• With large margents full of figures and divers colours.
• Babylonian combs.
• Severall Indian combs, one of reeds.