Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 242
(one with a dancer and a centaur playing a lyre) ;moreover, many of the small and animated figures strongly recall those ofilluminated psalters of the Monastic group,2 the earliest known examples ofwhich do not go back beyond the ninth century (p. 465). It might be possibleindeed to explain the… … Fig. 131. Ivory casket of the ninth-tenth century in the Victoria and Albert Museum. which is a frequent feature upon the caskets. Figures are taken outof their context and inserted where they have no meaning; attributes aremisinterpreted or misplaced in so naive a manner that it is impossibleto…
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