2-755-756 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

German Renaissance cartouches and works in metal and enamel, (1898). 'Figs 1 and 2: Cartouches from a pedigree in the Sammlung vaterländischer Altertümer at Stuttgart. Figs 3-17: Divers decorations on little altars, reliquaries and on a cross from the treasure of the rich chapel of the Royal Residence at Munich. Figs 18-20: Parts of ornamental objects. Figs 21-23: Parts of mountings on a baldrick after parchment drawings by Hans Mielich. Fig 24: Ornamental pendant from the Sammlung des grünen Gewölbes at Dresden. Fig 25: Point of a scabbard by Hans Mielich. Fig 26: Ornamental pendant from the Museum at Pest...the German artists...managed to attain the standard of the Italian goldsmiths' productions not only in regarding their technical perfection, but also of the beauty of their forms. Southern Germany especially with its numerous industrial towns, soon became a centre for noted workmen in precious metals. Drinking vessels, table-services, weapons, rings, girdles, ornamented pendants, bracelets, ecclesiastical plate, etc. gave abundant scope for rich artistic treatment'. Plate 79 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898]