A Guide to the mediaeval room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room; (1907)
British Museum. Department 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 240
aptist, patron- saint of the wool-merchants by whom so many of these marks were used. Merchants' marks, which are frequently engraved on rings, were commonest from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries ; and English merchants probably first borrowed them from the Flemings. Though for the most… … u'rr. the smaller mediaeval objects in metal. J^iG. loJ. — bold ring > ^ ii.ii --i with merchant's mark, -l^or can any attempt be made to deal with sixteentli century. the Italian and other bronzes of the Re- naissance ; these are hardly represented in the collection except by plaquettes, which are…
Art objects · Art, Medieval
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