The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . ance. Fig. 42, a roundbrooch of gold, which once had a stone set in thecentre, in the Museum at Copenhagen, gives an ex-ample of the fine gold work executed in the Northduring the Viking period. A round pewter broochin the Guildhall Museum, London, an inch and threequarters in diameter, also of a late period, is worthrecording as the use of this material is rare in theperiod (fig. 43). Fanciful shapes are adopted at times instead ofthe circular one, and a favourite pattern, probablyGothic in its origin, is that of a bird, in aspect some-times r
The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . ance. Fig. 42, a roundbrooch of gold, which once had a stone set in thecentre, in the Museum at Copenhagen, gives an ex-ample of the fine gold work executed in the Northduring the Viking period. A round pewter broochin the Guildhall Museum, London, an inch and threequarters in diameter, also of a late period, is worthrecording as the use of this material is rare in theperiod (fig. 43). Fanciful shapes are adopted at times instead ofthe circular one, and a favourite pattern, probablyGothic in its origin, is that of a bird, in aspect some-times resembling a parrot, though as a rule dignifiedby the name of a falcon or eagle. Such broochesare fairly common in the Teutonic cemeteries ; theyare mostly quite small, like the two shown at theright-hand side of fig. 44, but a few are very hand-some, the finest being to all appearance of Gothicmanufacture. One found near Ravenna is preservedin the Germanic Museum at Nuremberg, and isshown in fig. 45. TheCluny Museum at Paris boasts 138 PLATE XII. 4^
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