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 86
Again we meet (Figs. 64 and 65) the large fibula, characterisedby the low arc connecting the two end pieces. It is too largeand heavy to be commodious, all variety of pattern on the broadsurface is gone, and the ornaments are either simple and mono-tonous, or reveal a mechanical copying ol older… … Figs. 66, 67.—Box-shaped fibula. Gotland. The decadence is revealed to us in a more decided form in thebox-shaped fibula (Figs. 66 and 67). Who in the four principalornaments on the upper surface (Fig. 67) would recognise thewell-known pattern of earlier times if he had not the opportunity 72…
Decorative arts · Art metal-work
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