The weight of plate in early modern inventories and secularization lists

Weight was an essential descriptive category for precious metalwork in early modern Europe because it estimated the monetary value that could be extracted in raw material from the formed object. Rather than mere financial information, recorded weights acknowledged precious metal’s transformational p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Allison Stielau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2014-12-01
Series:Journal of Art Historiography
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Online Access:https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/stielau.pdf