The decorative arts ecclesiastical and civil of the Middle Ages (1851)
Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873 · London, William Pickering · leaf 195
ry graceful outlines, as well as rich combinations offolds. The materials employed on the Purfes are yellow filk with whitebraids. The firings by which they are clofed being yellow, with knobsof gold thread in the centres of the rofes with which they terminate. The fpecimen in the middle of our… … In a prohibition contained in a Statute of Edward III. againft themanufacture of fpurious jewellery, it was provided that Goldfmiths mouldnot gild, among other articles, Gipecier rings unlefs made of filver. Ina tranflation of this ftatute made during the reign of Henry VIII. Gip-ecier was rather…
Decoration and ornament · Decoration and ornament, Medieval · Church decoration and ornament
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