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 47
-served at S. Peters, of which thebronze pine-cone formed a principalpart. He had arranged in front ofhis church at Aix-la-Chapelle anatrium similar to those he sawbefore the great churches in Rome,and, following their example, he hadplaced in the centre of it a water-bason with a fountain. The one… … Fig. 5.—PiNE-CoNEAix-la-Chapelle THE ORIGINS 29 filled by water spouting from the dome above. Beneath the canopy was placed the great bronze pine-cone, now standing in the Giardino della Pigna of the Vatican. This pine-cone, of which we give an illustration (Fig. 6), was generally supposed to have…
