Pen, Pencil and Poison a Study in Green

Some dark antique bronzes contrast "with the pale gleam of two noble Christi Crucifixi, one carved in ivory, the other moulded in wax." He has his trays of Tassie's gems, his tiny Louis-Quatorze bonbonniere with a miniature by Pettitot, his highly prized "brown-biscuit teapots, filagree-worked," his citron morocco letter-case, and his "pomona-green" chair.