Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze . sixteenth century. There is a remarkable absenceof metal lecterns in France, acircumstance which seems themore curious when we rememberthat the first authentic accountwe have of a copper eagle con-nected it with two French abbeys ;but all such things were destroyedin the seventeenth and eighteenthcenturies. We have, however,already referred to one which re-mains in the Church of S. Leonardat Honfleur, manufactured at Ville-dieu-les-Poels in 1791. Although there are no veryearly examples of metal lecternsin
Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze . sixteenth century. There is a remarkable absenceof metal lecterns in France, acircumstance which seems themore curious when we rememberthat the first authentic accountwe have of a copper eagle con-nected it with two French abbeys ;but all such things were destroyedin the seventeenth and eighteenthcenturies. We have, however,already referred to one which re-mains in the Church of S. Leonardat Honfleur, manufactured at Ville-dieu-les-Poels in 1791. Although there are no veryearly examples of metal lecternsin Belgium, there are, as mightbe anticipated, a great numberaltogether ; but at the same time,though the eagle type is the onemost commonly found, there area great many variations from of the most beautiful of theeagle lecterns is that in the Churchof Our Lady and S. Martin at Hal,of which we give an illustration(Plate XXXII.). It may date fromthe middle of the fifteenth century,and consists of a central hexagonalbuttressed shaft, which received three flying buttresses standing. Fig. Lectern, S. Stephen,S. Albans i6o DINANDERIE on lions. The top of the shaft is richly embattled, and from its centre rises an orb, which workson a pivot, supporting an eaglewhose extended wings bear abook-rest beautifully worked inopen tracery. At S. Nicholas,Tournay, is an eagle dated 1483,and at Chievres, near Ath, isanother dated 1484 ; but perhapsthe most beautiful as well as oneof the earliest is that of NotreDame, at Tongres, to whichwe have already alluded. It issigned by Joses of Dinant, whowas working on another piece inthe same church in 1360, andin its arrangements it is is supported by a triangularbase resting on three lions, andfrom this rises a three-sidedturret, with flying buttresses,carrying a globe on which isan eagle with outstretched wingstrampling on a monster, and theledge of the book-stand is formedof two salamanders. The lectern of Ardenne hasa winged l
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