Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 266
teatite with the * Twelve Feastsof the Church, Toledo. (Hautes Etudes : E. Roulin.) P. 242. STEATITE CARVINGS 241 The British Museum1 has several examples, but none of exceptional merit.Three have half-figures of the Virgin and Child ; three others representations ofsaints ; two have Gospel… … Fig. 150. Panel of the thirteenth-fourteenth century, carved in steatite with the TwelveFeasts : Monastery of Vatopedi, Mount Athos. (Hautes Etudes : G. Millet.) P. 242. with St. Demetrius, in exceptionally high relief).2 There is a St. George in themuseum at Angers.3 The collection of the Comtesse…
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