Identifier: sussexarchaeolog08suss (find matches)
Title: Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Sussex Archaeological Society. 1n
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Publisher: Lewes, Eng. (etc.) Sussex Archaeological Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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is curious encolpion, of Greek or Russo-Greek workmanship, wasijthe museum of the late Dean of St. Patricks, and is figured Gent,mg., vol. xix, n.s. p. 490. See also Arch. Journ. vol. v, p. 166.—J. 0. Westwood. (Sculptured ivory tablet, early twelfth century. The subject is OurIrd with the Virgin Mary and St. John.— The Rev. Walter Sneyd. 302 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE A reliquary in the form of a pectoral cross, formed of two g<plates, enriched with enamel embedded, or cloisonne, in filagree, a;set in silver gilt. On one side appears the Saviour on the crobarbarously defaced, and demi-figures of the Virgin and St. JolOn the other side is seen the Virgin, full length, with St. John,Paul, St. Peter, and St. Andrew. Date, ninth or tenth century, (ia detailed account by Mr. Pranks, Arch. Journ., vol. xiii, p. 51This precious example of Byzantine work was in the DebriCollection.—The head of a crosier, of the enamelled work of Limogthirteenth century.—Mr. Alexander Beresford Hope.
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A pedestal resembling a priket candlestick, of enamelled me ,of Romano-Celtic work, of the same class of enamels as the v afound in one of the Bartlow tumuli (Archaeologia, vol. xxvi, pi. c ,and specimens in Mr. Nevilles Museum, It was obtained MlPrance, and is now in Mr. Magniacs Collection. Height, tl Iinches. Pive priket candlesticks of enamelled copper, with hera bdecorations, stated to have been purchased in Italy. A rich baldi jsof silver, parcel-gilt, obtained in Belgium. It is probably an oii-ment worn by a lady, and appears to be Plemish work, sixtee jicentury.—Mr. H. Farrer. MUSEUM AT CHICHESTER. 1853. 303 1 Shrine figures of gilt bronze, Irish work, tenth or eleventh cen-lary; a bishop and an abbot. Facsimiles of the remarkable orna-hental work of the Cross of Cong, a production of Irish art, a.d.1123, in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy. Also electro-Vpes of ten small figures affixed to the shrine of St. Manchan, with■asts of ornamental work on the ends of the shr

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