Franks bequest. Catalogue of the finger rings, early Christian, Byzantine, Teutonic, mediaeval and later (1912)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Franks, Augustus Wollaston, Sir, 1826-1897, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · London : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 22
j- be no cavity or stone;the word is similarly used in the case of rings which have no gem. The parts ofthe hoop approaching the bezel on either side are known as the shoulders. Most of the stones used in ancient times were also used in the Middle Ages ; Gems inamong the favourites were the rubj,… … Fig. 2. Hands of Queen IVIary Tudor. From the portrait by Lucas de Heerc in thepossession of the Society of Antiquaries of London. the letter of St. Avitus, mentioned below (p. xxix). But the art ot cutting inintaglio and cameo, if not entirely lost, is at any rate extremely rare betweenthe fall of…
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