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The arts and crafts of older Spain (1907)

Williams, Leonard, b. 1871 · London : T.N. Foulis · leaf 198

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The late Marquis ofArcicollar possessed a number of specimens ofSpanish manufactured iron of the later MiddleAges, such as boxes, candelabra, locks, nails,door-knockers, b7^aseros, and a rare and curiousiron desk (fourteenth century), with leatherfittings. The collection of the late Count of… … IRON-WORK the centre are evidently from a sacred building ;while the other pair are just as evidently senoriales,and belonged to a noble house. In the formerpair, the clumsy carving of the saints, Peter andJames, is attributed by Serrano Fatigati to thenative coarseness of the iron. Proceeding from…

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