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 182
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… … Fig. 111.—Casket with gesso ornament, North Italian, sixteenth century. doubt numerous, and small phials have on several occasions beenfound near the foundations of the chancel walls of churches underconditions which suggest a mediaeval date : examples of suchsmall vessels are shown in the Glass…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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