Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 190
enamels (see Fig.96). The art of the gold-smith was fostered to agreat degree under therule of Charlemagne. Thismonarchs great friendand adviser, the prelateAlcuin (735-804), was thechief spirit of his timesin founding monasteries,which were, apart fromtheir religious character,also great schools… … Fig. 135.—Votive Crown of King Suiut-hila; Seventh Century. Charlemagne was buried with 72 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. most of his treasures about him, but his enamelled sword
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