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Artist
- Name:
- Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel
- Dates:
- 1814-1879
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Ornaments & patterns
- Technique:
- Lithograph
- Lithographer:
- Levié, Jacob (aka Adolphe Levié)
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- Robarts Library, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Dictionnaire raisonné du mobilier français de l'époque carlovingienne à la Renaissance, vol. 2
- Author(s):
- Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel
- Publisher:
- Paris: Vve A. Morel et Cie., 1874
- Open Library:
- View record.
Description
Thirteenth or fourteenth-century gilt-copper fastener with enamel decoration showing the Annunciation and ornamental chimeras. According to Viollet-le-Duc, this piece of jewelry was probably made for an episcopal cope.
The caption reads in the original French: Agrafe en cuivre.
Keywords: 1870s, 19th century, color, craft, jewelry, medieval, reference book, religious
