Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze . Fig. 54.—Font, Linkoping Lubeck, and the Cathedral of Linkoping, Sweden. They arealmost identical, and were, no doubt, made by the same manand about the same time, which we know was, in the case of 172 DINANDERIE Lubeck, 1335. Our sketch (Fig. 54) of the one at Link5pingwill sufficiently explain their character, though unfortunately in. Fig. 55.—Font, Sebaldskirche, Nuremberg this case the original pedestal has been destroyed, and the presentone is made up of fragments found when this beautiful cathedral F
Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze . Fig. 54.—Font, Linkoping Lubeck, and the Cathedral of Linkoping, Sweden. They arealmost identical, and were, no doubt, made by the same manand about the same time, which we know was, in the case of 172 DINANDERIE Lubeck, 1335. Our sketch (Fig. 54) of the one at Link5pingwill sufficiently explain their character, though unfortunately in. Fig. 55.—Font, Sebaldskirche, Nuremberg this case the original pedestal has been destroyed, and the presentone is made up of fragments found when this beautiful cathedral FONTS 173 was restored. Both the figures and the mouldings of the archesare very finely worked, and the nimbi behind the heads havebeen engraved on the background. Towards the end of the fourteenth century we have the veryrich font of S. Sebalds Church, Nuremberg ; and it is said to bethe earliest piece of bronze casting made in that city, whichafterwards became so famous for the bronze work of PeterVischer. Its exact date is not recorded, and it bears no inscrip-tion, but as it was used for the baptism of the Emperor Wenzelof Bohemia, in 1361, it must be earlier than that date. As willbe seen from our drawing (Fig. 55), both the bowl and pedestalare finely arcaded all round with buttresses and pinnacles, thespaces being filled in with little figures of saints. The foliageornament which fills in the hollows of the
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