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 33
Fig. 8.—Personal ornament of gold bracteate. Found in Sweden. literature of the North the very unfit name of gold bracteates :they resemble the middle-age bracteates in having designs on oneside only, but they have not the extreme thinness of the laterexamples which the name is meant to indicate.… … Fig. 9.—Personal ornament of gold bracteate. Found in Sweden. proved by the great number of specimens found in Scandinaviaand Denmark contrasted with their scarcity everywhere else.Here we find the work of dissolution arrested, and the elementsremaining at the time of this change used as…
Decorative arts · Art metal-work
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