An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology. Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations (1883)
Mollett, John W. (John William) · London, S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington · leaf 130
utch products, inscribed Dkkhoofand A. Diiisbiirg, and by the latter nameidentified as Dunkirk work. Duns, Celtic. Ancient hill forts of the sim-plest kind, consisting of a round or oval earthenwall and ditch on a rising ground, probablycontemporary with the pit dwellings. Dunster, O. E.… … Eagle, Her. The eagle (called in heraldryAlerion) appears inthe earliest Englishexamples of arms,and his appearanceoften denotes analliance with Ger-man princes. Boththe German em-perors and Rus-sian czars adoptedthe eagle for theirheraldic ensign insupport of theirclaim to be con-Fig. 274.…
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