The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 145
period. Far from indicating any original style, they afford furtherproof that the barbarians who came from the ^N^orth became subjected, inthe arts, to Byzantine influence. The most remarkable, not only in itsdimensions and extreme richness, but in the peculiarity of its ornaments,is a votive… … Fig. 85.—Gallic Bracelet, rom a Cabinet of Antiquities. (Nat. Librarj-, Paris.) formed of a double plate of the finest gold. Thirty uncut sapphires andas many pearls, regularly alternating, arranged in three rows and inquincunxes, are seen on its exterior circle. Chased ornaments occupythe spaces…
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