Brass foundry workshops of the Southern Low Countries and the Principality of Liege. A Technical Approach

Abstract

Dinanderie has been a very important industry in the lands of what is now Belgium, which formerly consisted of the Southem Netherlands - ie most of the counties of Flanders, Hainaut and Namur, the duchies of Brabant and Luxembourg - and the Principality of Liege. There were many workshops in different cities whose surviving products consist mainly of large and small civil and ecclesiastical fumiture (for example, statues, canons, bells, candlesticks, baptismal fonts, lecterns; pots and pans, aquamaniles and censars); but we know that they also produced more technical work.