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 209

An illustration from 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, leaf 209 — gthe rings in the Gold Ornament Koom, and the enamelled jewelsin the Waddesdon Bequest, the new style is well illustrated. Itwas the period of Cellini and of the celebrated designers Du Cerceauand Etienne Delaulne in France, of Virgil Solis and others inGermany, and of Collaert in Holland. After… … Fig. 123.—Gold brooches, mediaeval (Franks Bequest). small gems, finely cut and facetted, marked the work of theeighteenth century, which is in absolute contrast to the oldmediaeval method of employing a few large cabochon stonesdisposed at rare intervals upon the metal. A great deal of…

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