Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 167
have been preserved. 148 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. Belonging to this period are the beautiful ivory huntinghorns called oliphants (from elephant) that were muchused by kings and nobles in hunting, and were sometimesmounted in gold. The ivory carvings known as pierced or * open-work are usually of very… … Fig. 118.—Ivory Carving; Fourteenth Century Pierced Work. (S. K. M. fourteenth-century work. It is not known exactly to whatcountry they belong, as ivory carvings as a rule are undatedand unsigned, but the woodcut (Fig. 119) represents anundoubted piece of English work. It is one leaf of adiptych…
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