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 154
ed by the ablest artisans, devoted two years to the manufacture ofthe shrine of 8t. Genevieve, on which he expended one hundred and ninety-three marks of silver and seven and a half marks of gold, the mark weighingeight ounces. The shrine, consecrated in 1212, was in the form of a littlechurch,… … Fig- 93-—Drinking Cupof Agate ; from the Treasury of the Abbey of Saint-Denis.(Cabinet of Antiquities, Nat. Librarj-, Paris.) earlier, the most celebrated German goldsmiths were engaged during seven-teen years upon the most famous reliquary in silver-gilt, which the cathedralat Aix-la-Chapelle…
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