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 125
of cumbrous head-dresses wereworn by both sexes, those of ladies reaching enormous pro-portions, some taking the form of large turbans, single or withtwo horns, and tall sugar-loaves, from which veils depended downthe back. Some of these fashions may be seen on the paintedfront of an Italian… … Fig. 81.—Detail from enamelled casket,Limoges, end of twelfth century. COSTUME 93 more restrained fashions now prevailing in Italy, and in the fol-lowing century began the changes from which modern costumehas developed. By degrees, through such transitional forms asdoublets and trunk hose, the…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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