Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 164
es, and were carved or painted, or were partly executedin both ways. Many objects of secular art, and articles that the wealthycould afford to use in every-day life, were made in ivoryduring the Middle Ages, such as book-covers, toilet-combs,mirror-cases, chessmen, horns, hilts of knives, swords,… … Fig. 114.—Ivory Carving withArchangel. (B. M.)
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