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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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ow dealing are veryignoble satellites of such a lordly ancestor, but the descent isnone the less probable. Such bird fibulae occur in finds inHungary but are especially common in the Merovingiancemeteries of France. On the question of the significance ofthe bird form something will be said later on (p. 526 f.) inconnection with Gothic art generally. Another bird formwhich sometimes makes its appearance is that of the duck, ofwhich an example from Chessell Down in the Isle of Wight isshown PL xlvi, 4. There is a kind of brooch formed of the bodies of twobirds arranged back to back in such a way as to suggest theletter S, whence the name * S -shaped fibulae sometimes givento examples. The type is represented, though not exactly, inone of the remarkable appliques from Buttsole, Eastry, Kent,at Maidstone, PL xxiv, 2 (p. 203), bottom line to the right.One or two specimens have been found in this country butthey are of extreme rarity. The national collection embraces DECORATED QUOIT FIBULAE
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t, 2, 3, enlarged by about one-half ABNORMAL PLATE FIBULAE 281 two, one from Chessell Down, and the other from Iffley,Oxon. This example is figured PI. xlviii, 7. One was foundin the cemetery at Sleaford, Lincolnshire.1 Under the heading plate fibulae may be grouped one ortwo abnormal pieces, for this name as we have seen is usedwith a very extensive denotation. The example of which aview is given in No. 3 on PI. xlviii was found near Milden-hall in Suffolk and belongs to Mr. S. G. Fenton of London.It consists in four birds heads arranged in a swastika pattern.In the centre there is a square sinking filled with red enamelof the transparent kind, the Blut-Email of Otto Tischler,and the eyes of the creatures were also enamelled. Thematerial is bronze and the size of each side of the square isa little under 2 in. Mr. Reginald Smith signalizes this as oneof the earliest pieces of Teutonic work in the country but likethe bird fibulae generally it comes from the Gothic east by way ofHungary

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