Capitolo 57
pomegranate, the vermeil, the crysolite, the plasura, the amethyst one?
To the not these all the stones and entirely different?' Yes, and because the devil
doesn't it also add, pearls among the jewels, to the they doesn't fish bones?"
This way him classification together the stones, while adding that the balas, nevertheless
turns on in colour, it is a ruby and the topaz a sapphire. "It is of the
same hardness, and although of a different colour, you/he/she must have classified
with the sapphire: what best classification does he/she want? it doesn't have
did the air find its sun?"
Cellini put always the stones of coloured in a bezel or closed box
of gold, with a foil behind them. He tells an amusing history of
a ruby instead of that he put once some on worn out silk on
the usual foil. To the result it happened to be very bright. The
jewelers asked to him he had used that kind of foil, and he responded
what he had not assumed foil. Then theirs exclaimed that he owes to have
dyes him/it that it was against all the laws of jewelry. Again Welcome
it swore that him neither you/he/she had used foil, neither he had made anything prohibited
or not professional to the stone. "To this the jeweler got a little
dirty scurrilous language", and used, it says Cellini. They offered then
to pay well for the information if Cellini informed them from that that
he/she wants to say him you/he/she had so notably gotten a five-year periods. Welcome, expressing
him indifferent to pay, but "a lot of honoured in the being so able to
you teach his/her teachers", the setting opened and exposed his/her secret,
and all divided excellent friends.
Also so early as the thirteenth century, the jewelers of Paris had
becomes notorious to produce artificial jewels. Among their laws
it was one whom stipulated that "the jeweler was not to dye the
amethyst or the other false stones, neither it climbs on them in gold leaf neither other
colour, neither it mixes them with rubies, emeralds or the other precious stones,
simply omits as a crystal without climbing on or to dye."