Essays on archaeological subjects, and on various questions connected with the history of art, science, and literature in the Middle Ages (1861)
Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877 · London, Smith · leaf 176
e, attempt to imitatethe ornamentation of Roman pottery, and in someinstances we have even a copy, more or less perfect,of the well-known egg-and-tongue pattern. The lat-ter is sometimes intermixed with other forms in avery incongruous manner, as will be seen in an ex-ample which I give (Fig. 51)… … 51. A Frankish Urn. To return, then, to Kent, and to the collection which is now before us,—as little as the subjecthas yet been really stu-died, it already beginsto throw a considerablelight on the conditionof the Anglo-Saxons inEngland before the pe-riod of their conversionto Christianity;…
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