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 77
f decoration was for-bidden. The example in Table-Case Gr is of the pontificate ofClement XI (a.d. 1700-1721) ; in the same case is a bronze matrix(fourteenth century) with which impressions of the Agnus Dei weremade. The value attached to these objects led to the manufac-ture of spurious examples,… … Fig. 50.—Alabaster carving : the murder of St. Thomasa Becket. English, early fifteenth century. development of sculpture in the thirteenth century ; though somevery interesting capitals from Lewes Priory and a fine fourteenth-century head above the Wall-Cases should be noticed. The ALABASTER…
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