The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . 93 94. 93. INLAID RELIQUARY FOUND IN ABUDDHIST TOPE, BRITISH MUSEUM. 95. TERMINAL OK IRON MOUNT ON LOM-BARD COFFIN, INNSBRUCK. 94 GOLD BROOCH IN NA-TIONALE, PARIS. 96. DAMASCENED SPEAR BLADE, BURG-UNDIAN OR PRANKISH, AT FRIBOURG. SUMMARY period, and a notice of which from the technicalpoint of view will find a place in the next inlaid gold jewellery is the central artisticfact of the period with which we are concerned, andupon the view we take of its provenance and history-depends our answer to the question that forms
The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . 93 94. 93. INLAID RELIQUARY FOUND IN ABUDDHIST TOPE, BRITISH MUSEUM. 95. TERMINAL OK IRON MOUNT ON LOM-BARD COFFIN, INNSBRUCK. 94 GOLD BROOCH IN NA-TIONALE, PARIS. 96. DAMASCENED SPEAR BLADE, BURG-UNDIAN OR PRANKISH, AT FRIBOURG. SUMMARY period, and a notice of which from the technicalpoint of view will find a place in the next inlaid gold jewellery is the central artisticfact of the period with which we are concerned, andupon the view we take of its provenance and history-depends our answer to the question that forms thetitle of the present chapter. I f there be agreementwith the view here stated, that the technique is notclassical but oriental, and that its adoption by theGermanic peoples showed at once their independenttaste and their readiness to adopt from any avail-able source motives which suited that taste, thenwe must reject the theory of Riegl and his school,and emancipate the Germans from that supposeddependence on Roman fashions which has beenelevated i
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