Ancient and modern gold and silver smiths' work in the South Kensington museum (1878)
South Kensington Museum, Pollen, John Hungerford, 1820-1902 · London, Printed by G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode and sold by Chapman & Hall · leaf 149
es or plates of gold or filver-gilt and enamel, or jewelled. No. 4278 is a belt of gold tiflue with buckle, ftuds, and other ornaments of filver-gilt. It is probably of the fourteenth century. The richer girdles were made of wrought metal jointed together and fet with precious ftones. The belt went… … 28. mounted with bofies, bells, buckles, &c. of Fifteenth Cen- gold and filver were added to horfe furni- tury Triptych. ture. In this way a great part of the wealth in goldfmiths’ work of thefe centuries was carried on the perfon of the knight and of his horfe. Ladies of condition and wealth wore…
Goldwork · Silverwork · Art objects
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