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 153
Fig. -Silver cup, partly gilt. Gotland. In our time gilding may be effected in various ways. Duringthe Bronze Age of Scandinavia gilding was practised, but it … Fig. 118.—Bottom of the cup Fig. 116. seems generally to have been effected by coating the placeswhere a higher splendour was wanted with exceedingly thingold plates. In the Iron Age we find bronze as well as silvergilt, and, as is well shown in the cup just mentioned, the gold, TECHNICAL…
Decorative arts · Art metal-work
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