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 294
m of spoons took place about the reign ofGeorge I, when the bowl assumed a narrower elliptical form,while the handle was rounded off and turned up at the end, a ribor median line running down the middle: down the back of thebowl ran a raised tongue generally described as the rats tail.At the end of… … Plate XIII. Flemish Enamelled Spoon and Case, about 1500. [See p. 250. SPOONS 251 The English kings possessed large numbers of valuable spoons.In the Jewel Book of Henry VIII, in the Library of the Societyof Antiquaries of London, there is mention of numerous goldspoons, many enriched with gems and…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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