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 80
54 GLOSSARY reredos-tables chiefly worked at Nottingham, probably employing the Chellaston stone. Sculptors are known to have lived at Chellaston itself, as well as at York and Burton. In 13G9- 1370, Edward III paid Peter the Mason, of Nottingham, a sum due for an alabaster reredos for the Chapel… … Fig. 52.— Enamelled armorial pendants, thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. of this character were being made in the second half of the fourteenth century ; and certain details in the armour on one, at least, of the Museum examples suggest this earlier period. But the greater part belong to the…
Art objects · Art, Medieval
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