Twelfth-Century Hand-Warmer

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Upper part of a twelfth-century hand-warmer.

Artist

Name:: Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel
Dates:: 1814-1879
Country:: France

Illustration

Subject:: Ornaments & Patterns
Technique:: Wood Engraving
Engraver:: Mouard, Eugène
Format:: Landscape (wider)
Source:: Robarts Library, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Dictionnaire raisonné du mobilier français de l'époque carlovingienne à la Renaissance, vol. 2
Author:: Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel
Publisher:: Paris: Vve A. Morel et Cie., 1874
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Description:

Upper part of a twelfth-century hand-warmer with openwork decoration of animals and foliage.
Such hand-warmers had a spherical shape and contained embers in their hollow center. Priests, for instance, would have them suspended by a small chain over the altar.

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