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 244
acles, mouldings, crenelations, and otherfeatures were now reproduced in bronze, changing with all the suc-cessive modifications of the style, with the result that the exten-sive plane surfaces hitherto available for enamelling were muchcircumscribed. Where enamel was used, the translucent… … Fig. 153.—Bronze ewer in form of a mounted knight, English, about 1300 (see p. 9). 204 GLOSSARY especially at its close, when France enjoyed some years of peace,the royal inventories reveal an enormous wealth of ornamentsand plate. Paris at this period was evidently a principal seat ofthe…
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