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 254
s of art;for instance, the figure of Prudence in Giottos frescoos in theCappclla delV Arena at Padua is holding such a mirror. Reflectorsof the same size and form were sometimes fixed on stands andkept in the chamber, but probably the largest mirror known inthe Middle Ages did not exceed the size… … Fig. 158.—Ivory mirror case, French, fourteenth century. in a. d. 1542, reference is made to objects of this kind. The sameinventory also refers to a round looking glasse of Catherine ofAragon, which was probably a polished metal surface with a sheetof glass over it. An arrangement of this sort had…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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