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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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. To find this in theNorth need cause no surprise for, as is well known, during theearly centuries of the Empire the importation of Roman worksof industrial art into Scandinavia was very abundant and themodels thus brought before the native craftsmen of the Northwere not neglected. PL lx, 3, shows a classical full face ona Roman cauldron found in Denmark and No. 4 a nativereproduction of the type. The full face is in evidence in theornamentation of the splendid Scandinavian gold necklets of Vshown on Plates liv and lv and two of the heads from thethree-strand necklet on these plates are shown enlarged about4 diameters, PL lx, 5. Other full-faced heads occur on thetriangular plate serving as mounting to the bracteate furthestto the left on PL lv. When we remember that the saucerbrooch is probably of northern derivation we may havegood reason to surmise that the full face on the English button1 Salin gives an engraving of it in his fig. 498. LXI facing p. 323 ROMAN AND BARBARIC ORNAMENT
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1, 2, are a little reduced7, 2, are Continental HEADS ON BUTTON BROOCHES 323 brooches of saucer type came to us from the north. It is aconfirmation of this to find in many examples, such as PI. lx, 7,two button brooches from Bifrons, the moustache emphasized,for in connection with the full face on the sceat coins thenorthern character of the moustache has been noticed (p. 81). It stands to reason of course that this motive, as a classicalone, was known and used in the South, and full-faced headsof this type occur, though not very frequently, in southernGerman art. A very quaint example in the Museum atRegensburg is shown, PL lx, 9, where the introduction of theupraised hands on each side of the face is a notable feature.It was found in a Teutonic grave at Alten Elsing with a sword,etc., and is not cast but embossed after the fashion of abracteate. On the whole it seems most likely that the headson the button brooches are of Scandinavian provenance, andnot direct adaptations of classic

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