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Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)

Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 166

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Fig. 116.—Pastoral Staff; German, Thirteenth Century. (S. K. M.) subject of the Crucifixion on one side and the Virgin andChild with attendant angels on the other. It is German IVORF CARVINGS. HI work of the thirteenth century, and is now in the Cathe-dral of Aletz. An older specimen of the… … Fig. 117.—Pastoral Staff; Bone Caning, English ; Twelfth Centurj-. interlacing scrolls, and has a grotesque and serpentforming the crook decorations (Fig. 117). In the fourteenth century ivory carvings were in greatdemand, judging from the great number of the variousivories of that date which have…

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