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, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington · leaf 333
the head {teste) of the king upon it.In the reign of Henry VIII. it was worth \2d.and afterwards dd. French testers were struckby Louis XII. in 1513, and Scotch under QueenMary in 1559. Testiere, Med. Fr. Originally, mailed armourfor a horses head, subsequently a plate betweenthe ears on which a… … Fig. 649. Testudo. Testudo, R. {testa, ashell). (i) A tortoise, andthence a lyre of which the sounding bottom was made out of a tortoise-shell. (2) In Archi-tecture, an arched ceiling, the four sides ofwhich converge to a centre. (3) Tcstitdo aric-taria was a movable wooden shed coveredwith skins…
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