A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 190
ts, wereproduced in considerable numbers between the tenth and twelfthcenturies, the character of their ornamentation, which generallyconsists of animals and monsters within scrolls pointing inmany cases to an oriental origin. Some were converted intoreliquaries ; others were used as tenure-horns,… … Fig. 115.—Ivory comb, eleventh century. of ivory: part of such a handle is to be seen in Table-Case F.Crucifixes of ivory were made in the Middle Ages, but very fewhave survived to our time, the majority of ivory figures of Christupon the cross dating from the sixteenth century or later. Forsecular…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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