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Die Edelschmiedekunst früherer Zeiten in Preussen: Westpreussen: enthaltend: Danzig - Thorn - Elbing - Marienburg - kleinere Städe - Nachträge

Czihak, Eugen von · 1908 · 57 pictures

A 1908 German catalogue of early goldsmiths' work from West Prussia, covering Danzig, Thorn, Elbing, Marienburg and smaller towns, compiled by Eugen von Czihak and held by Heidelberg University Library. Its photographs show chalices and related church silver photographed singly against dark grounds, with the bowls, knops and feet lit to show their relief detail. A designer could take from them the Gothic architectural vocabulary of pinnacles, tracery and niches used on sacred vessels, and the rhythm of lobed feet and stacked knops.

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