Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze . Plate XWIIICROSIER, IX THE V, AXD A. MUSEUM. ri \TK xxix CKOSIEK, IX THE V. AXlJ A ^IlM-LXM CROSIERS 149 century. It is of gilt copper, decorated with gems and enamels,and contains a Crucifixion in the volute. There are also in the Hotel Cluny three fine episcopalcrosiers, all of the twelfth century, which belonged to defunctbishops of Lu9on, Bayonne and Carcassonne, whose graves,under official investigation, yielded up these treasures. Thatof Lufon, which is of copper gilt encrusted with Limogesenamel, ha
Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze . Plate XWIIICROSIER, IX THE V, AXD A. MUSEUM. ri \TK xxix CKOSIEK, IX THE V. AXlJ A ^IlM-LXM CROSIERS 149 century. It is of gilt copper, decorated with gems and enamels,and contains a Crucifixion in the volute. There are also in the Hotel Cluny three fine episcopalcrosiers, all of the twelfth century, which belonged to defunctbishops of Lu9on, Bayonne and Carcassonne, whose graves,under official investigation, yielded up these treasures. Thatof Lufon, which is of copper gilt encrusted with Limogesenamel, has in the volute the usual arrangement of S. Michaeland the Dragon, and round the knop grotesque animals in highrelief. The Bayonne crosier is similar, but has in the volute onone side our Lord in Benediction between an Alpha and Omega,and on the other side the Virgin and Child enthroned, while thevolute terminates in a serpents head ; the heads of the figures areenamelled and the eyes set with pearls. When the tomb con-taining this was opened in 1853, the occupant was discovered inthe complete episcopal costume of the twelfth c
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