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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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tale at Ravenna, PI. xxxiii, i, 2 (p. 243),exhibit the Emperor with his cloak fastened on the rightshoulder by a jewelled disc of the sort under review, fromwhich, it will be seen, hang down three pendants. Theodoraas will be noticed wears a pair of such brooches, one on eachside, and this corresponds with the habit of the German ladiesas evidenced in the cemeteries. Upon this fashion in connec-tion with the general question of the Germanic costume of thetimes something will be said on a later page (p. 374 f.). Among disc fibulae of Teutonic make though of classicalpattern the first place is taken by a pair of golden ones in thesecond treasure of Szilagy Somlyo at Budapest shown on thelowest line on PI. cxliv (p. 529). They measure nearly 4 in.in diameter and rise in the form of truncated cones to a heightof about 1 j- in. The ornament is in repousse work in goldand inlays. The loops to which pendants were attached areseen at their edge. XLVII facing p. 275 SAUCER AND APPLIED BROOCHES
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DISC AND SAUCER FIBULAE 275 A much more modest form of the disc fibula consists insimple bronze plates, ij- in. or 2 in. in diameter, furnishedunderneath with pins, and ornamented on the front withstamped or incised patterns of an unpretentious linear kind.The form is very widely distributed, and occurs from a veryearly period. A very good example is the early Bifrons piecePI. xxxvi, 6. There is no question in these of typology orevolution, and they remain throughout strong serviceableadjuncts to the toilette, whose only interest from the aestheticside is their ornament, with which we are not for the momentconcerned. It happens not infrequently that bronze circularplates are found with no trace of ornament on the face, butprovided with pins at the back or perhaps without pins butwith indications that these had once been attached. There isalways a chance here that an ornamented plate in thin gildedbronze or even in gilded silver or gold had once been cementedto the front of the brooch

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