Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze . but has only forty-eight bronze statuettes and thirty-six sconces for lights. The corona which Frederick Barbarossa presented to the Minster of Aix-la-Chapelle is even more elaborate, as instead of being asimple circle, it is formed oftwelve cusps with twelve nichesholding figures, and ninety-eight prickets for candles onthe rim. There were similarcoronas in the cathedrals ofToul and Reims, but they weredestroyed at the Revolution. Although we have nothing in England tocompare to these great coronas in siz
Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze . but has only forty-eight bronze statuettes and thirty-six sconces for lights. The corona which Frederick Barbarossa presented to the Minster of Aix-la-Chapelle is even more elaborate, as instead of being asimple circle, it is formed oftwelve cusps with twelve nichesholding figures, and ninety-eight prickets for candles onthe rim. There were similarcoronas in the cathedrals ofToul and Reims, but they weredestroyed at the Revolution. Although we have nothing in England tocompare to these great coronas in size orelaboration, there are a few fine chandeliers,such as the one hanging in the Temple Church,Bristol (Fig. 47). It is of brass, and may datefrom the end of the fourteenth century, andis made to carry twelve candles in lights are arranged in two tiers, the lowerone for eight, with open buttresses rising be-tween each alternate pair, from which spring the four lights of the next tier. The stem has at the top a statue of the Virgin and Child, surmounted by a great crown, K.
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