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 180
Italian caskets inWall-Case 44 (plate IX and fig. Ill) are pleasing examples of thiskind of work. G-IMMEL RINGS. See p. 175. GLASS. Apart from the stained glass of windows, the amount ofmediaeval glass which has come down to us is very small, farsmaller in fact than that which we possess from the… … GLASS 145 ing specimens are derived, whereas in the Middle Ages glasswas not buried with the dead. It is not to be supposed thatthe mediaeval glass-maker did not make flasks and bottlesfor domestic use; but, as modes of transport were primi-tive, leather, wood, metal, and earthenware, which would…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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