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 92
s, and chiefs that maintained themfelvesfor longer or fhorter feafons of power, borrowed models andteachers from Conftantinople. Sometimes imperial gifts, fuchas altar fronts, croffes, reliquaries, or royal crowns, found theirway to churches and courts from the Byzantine capital. Theywere objeds on… … Crown from Abyssinia. This curious tiara, made for ecclefiaftical ufe, brought fromAbyflinia and not, probably, fo old as the middle ages, repre-fents the old oriental traditions preferved in diftant provinces.It is defcribed p. 281. {Compare crown^ p. 372.) It is now time to point out the fchools…
Goldwork · Silverwork
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