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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 78

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53 remaining sculptures are nearty all reliefs in alabaster made forreredos-tables with painting or gilding more or less perfectlypreserved; a few date from the fourteenth, but the greaternumber from the fifteenth century. The fragments from Kettle-baston at the top of Cases 37 and 38 show the… … Fig. 51.—Alabaster carving : the Resurrection. English, latefourteenth century. are of considerable interest as English work of the time of theHundred Years War. They are very numerous both in thiscountry and in France, whither they were exported during theperiod of English ascendancy; but they…

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