Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 213
uls College,Oxford, and some other salts ofthis period and earlier were oftenmade in form of hour-glasses (Fig. 158). Very few specimens of house-hold plate have come down to usfrom the thirteenth or fourteenthcenturies, although we havemany records of the great quan-tities of jewels and plate that… … ^- Fig. 158.—Hour-glass Salt, given1493, at New College, Oxford. METAL WORK. 195 teenth century. Sacramental cups and chalices, and allkinds of drinking cups, were made at this time. Thebeautiful cup of Gothic design with translucent enamels,now in the Kensington Museum, is probably a work ofthe…
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