. Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze . ists were chiefly engaged were theenriched portions of weapons and buckles, fibulae and otherornaments for dress, and these they frequently further adornedwith a rude sort of champleve enamel. In England a verysimilar sort of bronze work prevailed among the Saxons, butshowing, perhaps, more distinctly Scandinavian influence. InIreland the metal was equally in common use, as is found,for instance, in the bells of cast bronze, which had supersededthose formed of riveted iron plates ; and the celebrated bel
. Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze . ists were chiefly engaged were theenriched portions of weapons and buckles, fibulae and otherornaments for dress, and these they frequently further adornedwith a rude sort of champleve enamel. In England a verysimilar sort of bronze work prevailed among the Saxons, butshowing, perhaps, more distinctly Scandinavian influence. InIreland the metal was equally in common use, as is found,for instance, in the bells of cast bronze, which had supersededthose formed of riveted iron plates ; and the celebrated bell ofArmagh, which is one of the series, bears an inscription whichfixes the date of its making as about the end of the ninthcentury. But while these examples show us that the people ofWestern Europe were still familiar with the use of bronze forall purposes for which this metal was suitable, it is to the extremenorth that we must look for the true origin of Dinanderie. Thepeople of Scandinavia, as we have already stated, had froma very early period a wonderful proficiency in working in. II THE CHAIR UF I)A( ii jBi;i;T THE ORIGINS 31 bronze, casting objects of a considerable size with ornamentsthereon in high relief. And they displayed this remarkableexcellence not only in their weapons and warlike accoutrements,but in innumerable domestic objects which have survived tothis day, many of which might have formed the models for thework produced later on in the Mosan towns. Among these area great number of vases, pots, or chaldrons, the uses of whichcannot now be accurately determined. These were often of an
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