Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze . Fig. 41.—Knop on BambergCandlestick Fig. 42.—Knop on BambergCandlestick, with Enamel. Fig. 43.—Base of Paschal Candlestick,Bamberg Cathedral Standing on a hexagonal base and supported by three lions, isthe one at Tongres dated and signed by Joses de Dinant. 144 DINANDERIE Altar candlesticks display great diversity in their designs,and during the later Middle Ages were often made in theprecious metals. The fact that the earliest we have remainingwere generally of a very ornamental character may be possiblyd
Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze . Fig. 41.—Knop on BambergCandlestick Fig. 42.—Knop on BambergCandlestick, with Enamel. Fig. 43.—Base of Paschal Candlestick,Bamberg Cathedral Standing on a hexagonal base and supported by three lions, isthe one at Tongres dated and signed by Joses de Dinant. 144 DINANDERIE Altar candlesticks display great diversity in their designs,and during the later Middle Ages were often made in theprecious metals. The fact that the earliest we have remainingwere generally of a very ornamental character may be possiblydue to the inferior ones having been consigned to the melting-pot from which their superior beauty saved them. The pairattributed to Bernward at Hildesheim, and the Gloucestercandlestick, which may have been one of apair, we have already described ; but fromtheir extreme richness must be regarded asrare. The more usual type of the earlyaltar candlesticks is represented by the ex-ample we gave from Trier, and those of giltbronze with crystal knops now preservedin the British Museum (Plate XXIV.).In the twelfth and thirteenth centuriesthey more nearly approximated in t
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