Mediaeval Gem Engraving

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Mediaeval Gem Engraving
C W Charles William King
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1. Intaglio on Spinel. Marlborough Collection.
Fig. 2. "Signet of Matthew Paris. " Waterton Collection.
Fig. 3. Intaglio; Fourteenth century ? Examples of Medimval Engraved Gems.
MKDI/EVAL Gi:. \I ENOBAVING. 11 his bonnet-pieces), the latter would have been in profile in somewhat slight intaglio, stiffly drawn, yet full of character, like the contemporary relief in ruby of Louis XII. Just mentioned.
The Marlborough gem was described in the old catalogue as the " Head of a Lombard king;" but not
... only does the form of the crown contravene this explanation, for these barbarians, as their coins and the contemporary Frankish sous dor attest, aped the diadem of the Byzantine Caesars ; whilst for their signets they had their own image and super- scription cut on massy gold rings, of which Childeric's is a specimen, or on large gems of the softer kinds, as in the two seals of Lotharius above described.
Mr. Albert Way discovers in this little portrait a resem- blance to that of our Henry VI. Upon his great seal.


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