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 274

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 274 — ace of the Medici. Plaquetteswere sometimes kept for their own intrinsic beauty ; but theirchief use was to decorate such objects as caskets, inkstands, andsword-pommels, to which purposes their forms are often obviouslyadapted. These small reliefs were principally made in the North of Italy,… … Fig. 166.—Plaquettes : in the centre and on the left the Fall of Phaeton, andHercules and Cacus by Moderno ; on the right Music, by Peter Flotner. great numbers. Their popularity soon spread into other countries,especially France, Flanders, and Germany. The best-known artists who made plaquettes…

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