Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 216
1549. Standing cup of Renaissance design in the Corpus ChristiCollege, Cambridge (Fig. 165). METAL WORK. 97 The base of the Gothic cup splays outwards from theknot downwards, while the Renaissance base mouldingsmay be enclosed by a line of the opposite curvature, form-ing a dome of a semicircular… … Fig. 164.—English Chalice, Corpus Chrisli College, Oxford; 1507. (C.) hanaps show decided architectural constructions, as maybe noticed in some of the illustrations, and some havequite a landscape treatment, as in the curious gilt metalhanap (Fig. 167), which is probably of Nuremberg manu-facture.…
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