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History of early Christian art (1893)

Cutts, Edward Lewes, 1824-1901 · London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 332

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and that of Susannah and the elders, and the oxand ass at the Nativity, so on these glass vesselsthere are Tobit and the fish,* and Daniel giving theballs of pitch to the dragon.f A more elaborate design is exhibited in some * Tobit vi, 3. t B?U and the Dragon, 27. 3o8 HISTORY OF EARLY CHRISTIAN… … Gilded glass vessel. Bust surrounded by twelve figures.- of them, which, at first sight, looks like a bust ofour Lord surrounded by full length figures of thetwelve Apostles ; but, on examination, the centralbust might be that of a female, and there is nothingto indicate that the other figures are…

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