Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 319
d with gold, silver, and precious stones.The altar itself was a gorgeous piece of workmanship, 298 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. resplendent with gold and enamels, decorated with hang-ing lamps, vases, and candlesticks, all WTOught in pre-cious metal work, though the actual design and workman-ship was rough… … Fig. 339.—Byzantine Capital from Santa Sophia, showing the bossing-out of the ornament. character. Reliquaries, shrines, and chalices in gold, andenamels, crosses, and other accessories of the altar, andsculptured ivories of a devotional character, of Byzantineworkmanship, were made in great…
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