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
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mployed by the Teutoniccraftsman these occur very seldom but the fact of their occa-sional appearance is sufficient to indicate the floral origin ofthe ornament. In Anglo-Saxon art such exceptional treatmentof the motive occurs on the highly important equal armedfibulae already noticed (p. 271). The Kempston examplePI. xxxvii, 7 (p. 247) does not show it, but a large and hand-some piece now at Audley End, a product of the LittleWilbraham explorations in Cambridgeshire,1 exhibits it to fulladvantage. As used on the bow, see PL cliv, 4 (p. 561), theornament shows no plant character but on the head and foot,if the parts are so to be termed, the tendrils are freely dis-played in true classical fashion. Till the other day it would have been hard to find parallelsto this distinctively floral ornament on any objects of Anglo- 1 Described in Nevilles Saxon Obsequies. The piece in question will befound figured PI. cliv, 4. (p. 561). LIX facing p. 317 SAUCER BROOCHES, ETC., WITH SCROLL PATTERNS
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1, 7, enlarged about one-half THE SPIRAL SCROLL 317 Saxon tomb furniture, though a curious quoit fibula of squareform from High Down, Sussex, gives indication of it, but thefinds of 1912 at Alfriston in Sussex included a piece of rareinterest and beauty on which delicate tendrils curl about ingraceful fashion. It has been figured PL xlix, 2 (p. 281) andnoticed from the points of view of form and technique. Ithas a pierced and vandycked edge and an S shaped patternstamped on the band next the outer border, but the chiefornament is the foliage scroll with the characteristic offshoots. For floral ornament proper with indication of the shape ofleaves we have to go to one or two quite exceptional piecesalready figured and discussed in connection with similarmotives on the coins, PH. v, 12 ; ix, 4, 6 (p. 103). The writerreally knows of very little else of the kind found in any of thepresumably pagan cemeteries, and the significance of the absenceof these motives from the tomb furniture has

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