Identifier: artsinearlyengla03brow (find matches)
Title: The arts in early England
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932 Webster, A. Blyth (Adam Blyth), 1882-1956 Sexton, Eric H. L. (Eric Hyde Lord), 1902-1980
Subjects: Art Architecture Architecture, Medieval Church architecture Crosses Decoration and ornament, Celtic Inscriptions, Runic
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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lded bronze appliques from Buttsole near Eastry, PL xxiv, 2(p. 203). Lest however we should assume that the guillochemay be always trusted as a mark of early date we may see itPI. lvii, 2, on a pair of brooches found in 191 2 at Frilford,Berks, where it is combined with the disjointed members ofanimals that betoken a period late in VI. Mr. Leeds refers in his paper to a starlike or catherine-wheel motive with recurved points or arms as an example ofwhich he quotes the Upton Snodsbury brooch at Worcestershown here PL lvii, 3. This is probably a degeneration ofthe guilloche, and this origin is betrayed by the broochesshown PL lvii, 4, a pair from Mildenhall, Wilts, in theMuseum at Devizes. The ornament round the circle hereis obviously a disintegrated guilloche and it might easily leadon to a treatment such as that in the neighbouring piece. The star is a conventional motive common in Roman workas on the carved altars, that occurs often on the saucer brooches, SAUCER AND BUTTON BROOCHES
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I, natural size ; 3, 4, 6, 7, approximately natural size ; 5, slightly reduced ORNAMENT ON SAUCER BROOCHES 315 and when it is treated in sharp decided fashion it is evidenceof early date, but this evidence is of course rendered nugatorywhen on the same piece occur motives that are notoriously ofa later epoch. Thus of the two examples on PL lvii, 6, 7,the first from Mitcham, Surrey, may be quite early, evenabout 500 a.d. a date which agrees with the general char-acter of the finds on the site, whereas No. 7, from Fairford,Gloucestershire, though more crisply wrought, proclaims itselfas at least of the latter part of VI owing to the disjointedanimal forms in the outer circle. A conventional motive of common occurrence on thebrooches consists in a series of horizontal lines crossed atintervals by a set of vertical ones and the idea of this hasprobably been taken from the sacrificial fillet of the Romanswhich may be seen carved on Roman altars. PI. lvii, 5,shows it associated with early m

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