Medieval Gilt and Enamel Fastener

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Copper fastener.

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:: Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel
Publisher:: Paris: Vve A. Morel et Cie., 1874
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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.

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