Examples of the works of art in the Museum and of the decorations of the building, with brief descriptions . SKM (4 ) IfJ CILT METAL ENAMELLEDITALIAfJ M. FEC. 1-8* PASTORAL STAFF. METAL GILT. No. 7951—1862. S~\ NE or two examples of crosiers or pastoral staffs made of ivory have^-^ already been given in this series ; another material, more common inthe middle ages and admitting a great variety of decorations, was was often enamelled and almost always gilded. Occasionally, also,gems and uncut stones or crystals were inserted in the volute. Th
Examples of the works of art in the Museum and of the decorations of the building, with brief descriptions . SKM (4 ) IfJ CILT METAL ENAMELLEDITALIAfJ M. FEC. 1-8* PASTORAL STAFF. METAL GILT. No. 7951—1862. S~\ NE or two examples of crosiers or pastoral staffs made of ivory have^-^ already been given in this series ; another material, more common inthe middle ages and admitting a great variety of decorations, was was often enamelled and almost always gilded. Occasionally, also,gems and uncut stones or crystals were inserted in the volute. The staff shown in the illustration is of a rather unusual form, havinga plainly-shaped round cross-piece at the top of the staff. The staff orstem itself is round, but the curve is four-sided in section with a delicatecresting on the outside. The ornamentation is translucent enamel on silver. Diamond-shapeddivisions fill the stem, in quatrefoils applied in separate plates and joinedat the points with flowers of beaten work, and each figure varied in knop or cross-piece has six quatrefoil pla
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