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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Department of Art History, University of Birmingham
2014-12-01
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Series: | Journal of Art Historiography |
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Online Access: | https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/stielau.pdf |