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 60
. Somebeautiful buckets (A.S. bucas) were made ofwood, generally of ash, whence they hadanother name ccscen. They are ornamentedwith designs, and figures of animals, and wereprobably used at festivities tu contain ale or mead. Bowtell or Boutell, Arch. (See Buttle.) Brabeum, Brabiam, or Bravium,… … Fig. 98. Bourgogne Point Lace. Fig. 99. Figures with Bracca;. such as the Amazons, .Gauls, Persians, and Scy-thians. Anaxyrides was the name given to close-fittin trousers, bracdc laXiC to witler pantaloons,such as those worn by the Gaul in the left-handcorner of Fig. 99, from a bas-relief taken…
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