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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(s):
- Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel
- Publisher:
- Paris: Vve A. Morel et Cie., 1874
- Open Library:
- View record.
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.
Keywords: 12th century, 1870s, 19th century, black & white, craft, medieval, metalwork, reference book
