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Charles Hercules Read; a tribute on his retirement from the British museum and a record of the chief additions to the Department of British and mediaeval antiquities and ethnography during his keepership, 1896-1921 (1921)

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An illustration from Charles Hercules Read; a tribute on his retirement from the British museum and a record of the chief additions to the Department of British and mediaeval antiquities and ethnography during his keepership, 1896-1921, 1921, leaf 188
figures in the frieze include mythicalcreatures, such as a demon and a hydra, beside tiger, boar, hound,deer, monkey, and bird ; at either side is a tiger-mask with ring-handle borrowed from a bronze model. There are drops of glazeon the lip of the vase, which was fired in an inverted position.…

Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval

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