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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 56
XI Tau-Cross of Morse Ivory. The volutes are covered withconventional foliage in hi.s^-h relief and deeply undercut, with fan-tastic animals in the convolutions; near each animal is an openflower. The end of one volute is now broken, hut originally eachend had a gryphons he;id biting at the…

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

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