Examples of the works of art in the Museum and of the decorations of the building, with brief descriptions . .. SKM op) M-ONi, n-ALKET oR CUSTOIE IN SILVER-GILT . SlDF! ENGRAVED WITH n CU« E S Or SAINTSLEMISH UB OERMAN . lF : FT 7 IN ? K M ( i F^ F[r|T. PYX. SILVER 4689—1858. THE greater number of pieces of plate whether of English or of foreignwork of the middle ages which have been preserved to our own timewere originally made for ecclesiastical and not for secular use. This is avery natural consequence of the lapse of years. As people in private st
Examples of the works of art in the Museum and of the decorations of the building, with brief descriptions . .. SKM op) M-ONi, n-ALKET oR CUSTOIE IN SILVER-GILT . SlDF! ENGRAVED WITH n CU« E S Or SAINTSLEMISH UB OERMAN . lF : FT 7 IN ? K M ( i F^ F[r|T. PYX. SILVER 4689—1858. THE greater number of pieces of plate whether of English or of foreignwork of the middle ages which have been preserved to our own timewere originally made for ecclesiastical and not for secular use. This is avery natural consequence of the lapse of years. As people in private stationsucceeded each other there was often a disposition, independently of anyother necessities, to get rid of things which had belonged to their pre-decessors : and precious metal when sold generally found its way to themelting-pot. Even changes of fashion had the same powerful influencethen as now: and new owners in the days of queen Elizabeth or kingJames the first fancied the best work of the early part of the sixteenthcentury to be already out of date and old-fashioned. So the old was partedwith and
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