Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze . of giltbronze with crystal knops now preservedin the British Museum (Plate XXIV.).In the twelfth and thirteenth centuriesthey more nearly approximated in theirdesign and treatment to the lecterns and. - standard candlesticks of the period, as maybe seen by the examples from Bruns-wick (Fig. 44) and Diisseldorf (Fig. 45),while a large number were decorated with iG. 44-— LTAR ANDLE- gj^^j^gj ^^^ p^gg ^s Limoges work, as shownSTICK, Brunswick i o in Fig. 46. For the hanging lights used for purely illuminating
Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze . of giltbronze with crystal knops now preservedin the British Museum (Plate XXIV.).In the twelfth and thirteenth centuriesthey more nearly approximated in theirdesign and treatment to the lecterns and. - standard candlesticks of the period, as maybe seen by the examples from Bruns-wick (Fig. 44) and Diisseldorf (Fig. 45),while a large number were decorated with iG. 44-— LTAR ANDLE- gj^^j^gj ^^^ p^gg ^s Limoges work, as shownSTICK, Brunswick i o in Fig. 46. For the hanging lights used for purely illuminating purposes the most important as well as the earliest are the great coronas, of which that at Hildesheim is the best-known example (Plate XXV.). It was completed by Bishop Hezilo, an immediate successor to Bernward, and hangs in the middle of the cathedral nave. The great circle is of copper gilt, with inscriptions in enamel, and a cusped border of silver. Each of the twelve towers attached to the circle contained four silver statuettes of personages mentioned in the Old Testament,.
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