with this story, is now pre-served in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. It is two inches and fiveeighths long, of gold, and containing within the inscription given above, acoloured vitreous paste representing, apparently, a male figure, holding in eachhand what appears to be a sceptre (though… … This remarkable ornament has been generally accounted to be an enamelledwork, but it must be admitted that the rarity of existing specimens of so earlya date is such, and our acquaintance with the processes of art employed atthat period so limited, that the assertion can scarcely be made with…
Middle Ages · Costume · Decoration and ornament, Medieval
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