Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze (1910)
Perry, John Tavenor, 1842-1915 · London : G. Allen & Sons · leaf 109
cterns, fonts,candlesticks and tombs, which are so numerous in Germany andthe Netherlands, have almost entirely disappeared. No doubt much loss of early work resulted from theHundred Years War, and the spoliation of the country whichfollowed, when noble knights organised bands of freebooters, F 82… … Fig 20.—Sanctuary Ring, S. Julian, Brioude was in the sixteenth century during the religious wars, when alarge number of the more precious objects, such as the great FRANCE 83 reliquaries and chasses of gold, silver or enamelled copper, wereeither stolen from the churches or melted down by their…
