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The decorative arts ecclesiastical and civil of the Middle Ages (1851)

Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873 · London, William Pickering · leaf 43

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o have been a portion of a reliquary,but, we think it more probable that it formed the centre of a book cover.There is great elegance in the attitude of the figure, and confiderablerichnefs is produced by all the thin lines of metal dividing the coloursbeing delicately pounced. Our firft wood-cut…

Decoration and ornament · Decoration and ornament, Medieval · Church decoration and ornament

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