Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 264
.1 Steatite Carvings. With Byzantine ivory carvings is closely allied a whole group of minutesculptures in steatite, serpentine, or fine schist.2 The subjects of these carvingsare almost entirely religious, resembling those of the ivories ; and though a feware of excellent quality the majority of… … Fig. 148. Ivory pyxis of the ninth century, carved in the Frankish dominions afteran East-Christian original. (British Museum.) P. 234. like ivories, they had a polychrome decoration, which has in the great majorityof examples entirely worn away. The stone in itself is softer than ivory andsuffers…
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