Catalogue of early Christian antiquities and objects from the Christian East in the Department of British and mediaeval antiquities and ethnography of the British museum; (1901)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · London : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 73
consists of a pair of peacocks confronted and separated by a vase; on each sideof them is a pair of confronted swans, and at each end a peacock looking towards 46 EARLY CHRISTIAN ANTIQUITIES … the front All the birds arc enclosed in scrolls is^uing from a vase in the middle. Above and below is a band of openwork lozenges within a pearled band. The front is composed of a circular medallion flanked on each side by an oblong with two square settings, now empty. In the centre of the…
Art objects · Christian antiquities
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