Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 199
rrazar, alreadynoticed, shows some-thing of the earlymetal work of theSpanish Visigoths. Moorish arms, suchas sword sheaths andhilts, are very artistic,as may be seen inthe illustration of thesword of Boabdil(Fig. 143), the lastof the Moorish kings.The hilt of this swordis made of solid gold,and is… … (S.K.M.) teenth centuries, of Gothic design. In *:he fifteenth century there was an astonishing quantity METAL WORK. IM of silversmiths work produced. Tliis was owing to the
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