THE TREASURES OF SERINGAPATAM.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3221, 16 June 1879, Page 1

THE TREASURES OF SERINGAPATAM.

After the ■ conquest of Seringapatam about•;seven lacs, _or pagodas-worth of jewels were taken in the treasury, (near the lfd6WOT'#hib|i waai chained''Sirienormous tige^Twith^tSusiin shawls^ntd rich cloths enough to load 600' camejs, .The foot-stootof the throne 1 of lTipp6 'is now ed'^"lWßa's^^tlSitleTM^ir-tho golden bead of a, tiger—the emblem of his empire. Though conventional in treatment, it is? striking in detail :;but;tlie legs •and :p»ws are well modelled: i The eye 3 and teeth are of burnished' .gold; A letter 'from • Serihgapataift r states that the throne itself; - being ,< too" uniiwield/i Broken upif 'It was a fiowaah coVeirdd Irith idloth of gold,the ascent to it was bjf:' sil'v&r-'gilt steps 'BaKng 1; 'bailis,^^an'd'an'the fastenings ; .wjs£e.!oi:'iitoiß\4a^ superb, '.^viry inch 'of |^c towdahcontained -, an Arabic sentence',! chiefly fr.om the Koran, and,, the (pearl, fringes , of : j the .canopy , Were ; , att 10,000 pagodas. ; The apex of this; canopy was a bird, said by some to;represent ft peacock; but Colonel says that it was iatepded to represent the " humtna," -> a falmtous birdf %hose ihadow; >\ wijl ; bring a crdwri to tHe 1 head I'bh which?'it! falls ■—af f bird' t&at' flies always in the; air, aiid IJ nev*if ft6uehes! thtf' The of this singulh^'r<*lieViß'!)ehtir.ely composedl 'of ':em'eraldsj';and; the- bodjr of S4ia'mi9Wds, !|!with^ The beak,|ta^ai^.e;/era((fi"'a'ld n-'tTp Jp" <c Id > with gold ; aniemerald and pearl are the crest to the head. The tail and, wings arer^ws of rubies and diamond', all jSaulosely Bet., that the gold of w,iiich_'tJie.Din|,is composed is scarcely visible. That the -throne must have boeh of enormous value, there can be little doubt, though it would bo difficult, perhaps impossible, to exactly estimate its worth—Oassell's 1 Illustrated History oflndi'a^ s ' ,j ;,t