The book of craftsmen; the story of men's handiwork through the ages (1900)
Bruce, Marjory · New York, Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 63
a long golden pin of the shape used by Greek women to hold up their hair. This trinket, ornamented with bulls' heads and tipped with a large pearl, was a votive offer- ing given to Venus by some long-ago worshipper who wanted some favour from her, and hoped to win it by the very human gift of a… … GILDED BRASS CROZIER to hold objects which had once been Medieval French. theirs. He it was who made rings for the thumbs and fingers of popes and prelates, clasps for their prayer-books, golden adorn- ments for their diadems and mitres. Often it was he who made the 45
Decorative arts · Industrial arts
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