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 219
tedby the fine set of knives in a cuir-bouilli case, made for John theIntrepid of Burgundy (Table-Case B and fig. 139). The blades seemto have been made rather thin, for even the large and broadexamples are often very narrow at the backs: the upper partswere sometimes engraved or damascened.… … Fig. 139.—Set of knives made for John the Intrepid. Duke of Burgundy (d. 1419). knives for the use of individuals at the table. At the table of aprince or great noble the esquire carver carried his lords personalknives in the sheath with the carving-knives, placing them by hisside when the meal…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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