A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 112
try. The top of a censer fashioned to resemblethe tower of a late Saxon church is of the twelfth century orpossibly even earlier ; it was found in the Thames near LondonBridge (Wall-Case 29). Many censers used in royal Chapelsand in Cathedrals were made of gold and silver, but the earlyexamples of… … Fig. 76.—Funeral chalice and paten, from Old Sarum, thirteenth century. their type being that of the ancient cantharus. But there areexceptions to this rule, the curious chalice from Trewhiddle, nearSt. Austell (Anglo-Saxon Room, Wall-Case 22), which dates fromabout a. d. 900, being a good example…
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