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Identifier: artsinearlyengla03brow (find matches)
Title: The arts in early England
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932 Webster, A. Blyth (Adam Blyth), 1882-1956 Sexton, Eric H. L. (Eric Hyde Lord), 1902-1980
Subjects: Art Architecture Architecture, Medieval Church architecture Crosses Decoration and ornament, Celtic Inscriptions, Runic
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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Fribourg, Switzer-land, is shown PI. xvn, I. The whole length is 15 in. andthe plate is 3^- in. wide. The wearing of such enormousornaments, especially by women, is a matter only to beexplained by the constraint of fashion, and as fashions spreadwe should expect the Saxon lords and ladies to have at anyrate coquetted with the vagary. They may quite well havedone so, but the evidence may not have been preserved owingto the disuse among them of the practice of tomb furniture.Only one or two large iron buckles, and these very poorspecimens, have come to light in our cemeteries, one atHarnham Hill, Wilts, another at Folkestone, while a third,the largest of all but quite unadorned, is at Maidstone andmeasures 6 in. in length. It is figured PI. lxxiii, 2 (p. 3SS)- The continental buckles in question are ornamented withsilver plating in different techniques, and when these processescame into vogue abroad it is almost inconceivable that the XVII facing p. 175 CONTINENTAL OBJECTS AND PROCESSES
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lt about ^ natural size; 2, much enlarged ; 4, 5, about natural sizeAll but 5 are Continental RARITY OF SILVER PLATING 175 Anglo-Saxon craftsman would not try his hand at them.Evidence that he did so is however almost non-existent. TheFetigny buckle is plated with a sheet of silver of appreciablethickness on which a design has been produced by punched orincised lines. The fish and cross show that the piece isChristian and late. More original, and specially characteristicof the class of work under review, is another process in whichthe silver is laid on to the iron in a very thin sheet, and thepattern is made by cutting it away in parts so that the metalbeneath is brought into view. PI. xvn, 2, illustrates this ;it is an enlargement of a small piece of this work at Namur.Sometimes, but much more rarely, the process is one of inlay-ing, and sinkings are cut in the iron into which the silver,or silver alternating with brass, is hammered, see PI. xvn, 4.This technique is Roman, as the inl

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