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 248
AL-WORK 207 famous for their goldsmiths, whose most characteristic work,however, consists of plate for secular use (see p. 237). England, which in earlier Anglo-Saxon times had producedjewellery and metal-work akin to that of the Teutonic tribes ofthe Continent (see Anglo-Saxon Room), was in the… … Fig. 155.—Bronze mould for casting statuettes of the Virgin and Child,Flemish, sixteenth century. (Table-Case B.) style, she developed her arts, especially that of illuminatingmanuscripts, to a high degree of excellence. A few examples ofearly English metal-work have been preserved : the portable…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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