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 174
ingian king had hissignet engraved in intaglio ; and of these seals several impressionsremain, though only one original matrix has been preserved, thatof Lothair II (a. d. 855-869), now set in the surface of an early ENGRAVED GEMS 139 mediaeval cross in the treasury of the Cathedral of… … Fig. 106.—The Crystal of Lothair, ninth century. three such engraved crystals, two of which are Crucifixions ofinferior workmanship, while the third, that known as the Crystalof Lothair, is by far the finest work which has come down to usfrom that age. The inscription upon this remarkable object,…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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