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Jewellery (1908)

Smith, H. Clifford (Harold Clifford), 1876-1960 · London : Methuen and co · leaf 167

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the day.With a high degree of finish and brilliancy, theyintroduced into their pictures faithful representationsof all the rich ornaments then in vogue. Unfortunatelyactual examples of the splendid jewels of this time arenow of the utmost rarity, but such as have survived,chiefly in the form of… … Collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, made in 1432 byJohn Peutin of Bruges, jeweller to Philip the Good, Dukeof Burgundy. (From the portrait of Baldwin de Lannoyby John van Eyck at Berlin.) 90 * CHAPTER XIIMEDIEVAL ENGLAND AFEW brooches and finger rings are almost theonly surviving examples of…

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