Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 138
e Gallo-Roman period until the eleventh century ENAMELS. 119 most of the arts were at a low ebb, owing to the devas-tating wars and invasions that spread all over Europe;the art of enamelling had been almost lost, and had quitedied out in France and Germany, but is likely to havestill been… … Fig. loi.—Enamelled \ase, Iound in Essex in 1834, since partially destroyedby fire. Diameter, 4I inches. from the ninth and probably earlier centuries, and are ofunsurpassed workmanship. Chalices, books of the Gos-pels, croziers, reliquaries, brooches, jewellery, &c., more orless enamelled,…
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