The industrial arts of Scandinavia in the pagan time (1883)
Hildebrand, Hans, 1842-1913 · [London] Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman & Hall · leaf 150
OBSERVATIONS. 135 holes through which these appendices were to be fastened to thebrooch itself. The panels at the sides are occupied by confusedgroundwork of the usual serpentine ornament. In the later Iron Age thin and broad bronze plates do notoccur; this period had too great a predilection for… … Fig. 115.—Unfinished fibula. Gotland. with engravings, either executed on them, or on plates madeof other metals and applied to the bronze to break the monotonyof its colour. Very often also small punched ornaments werescattered over the bronze surface, most of them producinggeometrical figures…
Decorative arts · Art metal-work
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