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Ancient and modern gold and silver smiths' work in the South Kensington Museum (1878)

Victoria and Albert Museum, Pollen, John Hungerford, 1820-1902 · London : Printed by G. E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode ... and sold by Chapman & Hall · leaf 176

An illustration from Ancient and modern gold and silver smiths' work in the South Kensington Museum, 1878, leaf 176
he fixteenth century. Silver cups andplate of all kinds for houfehold ufe were made by themafter the defigns or in the fpirit of the Italian artifts. Augf-burg was, perhaps, the richeft feat of this manufadlure, andthe earlieft to adopt the new ftyle. Nuremberg, a walledand wealthy city, proud of… … Hanap in the Shape ofA Fortified City. is a covered gilt cup, No. 245 (p. 152),made after the fhape of one of the towersof Nuremberg, reprefenting even theruftication of the ftonework. The fup-ports are little fortified outworks ; roundthe bafe and the waift of the cup run gal-leries fortified by…

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