Examples of the works of art in the Museum and of the decorations of the building, with brief descriptions (1881)
South Kensington Museum · London, S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington · leaf 290
_l PORTABLE ALTAR. PORPHYRY. No. 10—1873. PORTABLE altars, dating from the middle ages, are of extreme rarity.They were not often of materials so valuable, nor enriched with somany decorations, as is the present example ; therefore, when worn outthey were generally destroyed, and this with much…
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