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 241

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 241 — tthey were thrown away, or if made of precious metal or of usefulmaterial like good bronze, melted down to be recast in another form.The following remarks have more especial reference to the generalchanges of style in different centuries and countries. Of work older than the ninth century very… … Plate XI. Crozier made by Feeke Hugo, eakly Thirteenth Century. [See p, o^ METAL-WORK 201 The Merovingians expended vast sums on jewellery and plate, andthe chronicles tell of the wonderful crosses and shrines made bySt. Eloi in the reigns of Clotair II and Dagobert I, but of theirchurch ornaments…

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