Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 173
bas-reliefs of females and children, may be seen, executed byFlamand, that are full of roundness and life, boldly con-ceived and extremely graceful. We have noticed how plentiful the ivory carvings wereof the fourteenth century period; but at the end of thatcentury ivory sculpture fell in abeyance,… … Fi. 124—Ivory Tankard, Silver-gilt Mounted ; Pkmish ; Seventeenth Century. (S, K. M.) German wood sculptors. Large wooden ahar-pieces, orretables, came into fashion, and also minute wooden IVORY CARVINGS. 155 portraits and statuettes, which tor a long period super-seded ivory carvings; and in…
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